I particularly enjoyed talking at some length with Braden Guy during my visit. He is emphatically a courteous, friendly and approachable Duty Manager, as well as Retained Fire Fighter and Comic Entertainer. He made me welcome, demonstrated complete mastery of his brief as Duty Manager and introduced me to his colleagues. Brad displays initiative, high energy, political awareness and humour. I predict...
Originally posted on Richard Buller's Lifestyle Blog : Matt Price of Leeds Karate Academy was “at home” to me yesterday as we family men drank green tea, shared stories about our interest in Medieval Chivalric Codes, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Broad Swords, Mixed Martial Arts, Karate, the appeal of Leeds Karate Club membership to teenagers (there’s… ...
Originally posted on Richard Buller's Lifestyle Blog : It’s the evening of Thursday 5th January, 2012 and I’m recapping on the day’s activities: no after-effects from last night’s training, a bit of stiffness in a different set of muscles, so this morning I swam freestyle for 30 minutes and concentrated on deep breathing rhythms for… ...
Originally posted on Richard Buller's Lifestyle Blog : Recipe to become an established international karate competitor, build a successful karate school, make a comfortable living as a Sensei by the age of 40 and have students flock to your own Dojo door? Andrew Lister (Nidan) and Ruby Whelan (girlfriend) chat with Karate Grandpa at Matt… ...
I came across a story about a woman that was a student of karate, who got diagnosed with cancer, fought it, and earned her black belt! That got me thinking about the obvious benefits of karate but does it also include fighting disease? I’ve heard many strange things attributed to karate lessons but normally […]...
We are home again after a testing week for all participants. Our Simulated Patient training continues to be invaluable as we support and encourage our family to give a doctor as much information as possible during a consultation. We explain ICE to them: IDEAS (easily described), CONCERNS (shared reluctantly because no one wants to look […] ...
Japan has culturally and historically been an ordered and hierarchical society. Therefore it comes as no surprise that it’s martial traditions (武道-budo) mirror this same structure. Until the conclusion of WWII, Japanese martial traditions were designated as different styles (流-ryu) or off-shoots (派-ha) and were centrally administered by the Great Japan Martial Virtues Association (大日本武徳会-Dai...
The Kenpo Freestyle Academy’s logo has been re-designed. We enlisted the services of a very talented young designer named Paolo Geronimo from the Philippines. In my not-so-humble, but very opinionated view, it is the world’s coolest Kenpo logo. After months of refinements, we release this logo with pride. In 2010 I wrote a blog post [...]...
We live in a flood zone. If I look to the right, focusing on a spot level with October 1875 levels … … … The water from the River Trent would have covered the grass on the opposite bank and lipped over onto the road. Not very scientific a measure but seemingly obvious. I trust […] ...
Our family crisis is diminishing and with it? The strain on each of us lifts. Friday evening we shall head for Nottingham. A week at home assuming all goes well with Sarah and Ben in St Albans. This morning Mary wakes to an uplifting message of support from Ali at the QMC in which she […] ...
s capital, Hobart, from the peak of Mt Wellington I've said it before, and I'll say it again now, I've always thought the best thing about this blog are the links. I hope you use them more often than you read the things I ramble on about. From the outset, I wanted this blog to act as a hub for Okinawan martial culture, a place to visit if you wanted to get information about Okinawan karate and kobudo,...
I am in Reading acting as chauffeur and carer for Sarah, who’s sense of Social Care, duty and professionalism is transcendent and brings me here. I know that couples seeking to adopt and children waiting for adoption are in safe hands. I am blessed to have family such as this. When Sarah’s Reading Panel has […] ...
Originally posted on Richard Buller's Lifestyle Blog : Peter Enright has been much on my mind these last few days. There are memories and an interview to draw on, from as long as three years ago. I did not write it up because I never asked for his permission and things move on. Peter left… ...
At times I have reviewed various techniques that while would work – are very worrisome from an unconscious shiver point of view. In this case a girl or woman has is already fighting for her life and limb; she is already being attacked or being sexually assaulted. Her choices are to try and comply […]...
Tou’on-ryu has fewer classical kata compared to it’s sister art of Goju-ryu, but shares four in common. They are: Sanchin (三戦), Sesan (十三), Sanseru (三十六), and Bechurin (百歩連) (2). Despite sharing the same name and following approximately the same enbusen, the technical content of these kata between the two arts differs in some interesting and fundamental ways. One of these... Read more...
d begin the Chinese New Year with a look at linage in relation to karate, but I think the lady and her horse beat me to it...yes, they got the joke before I did. It looks to me like someone asked the lady: " As a traditional karateka, how far back can you trace your karate ?", and what you see here is her reaction. Is any karateka alive today training exactly as karateka practised in Okinawa at the...
The following article was originally Published in Gekkan Karate-do, Vol. 36, February 1981, pg. 41 – 43 by Seishin Koyama. Although the language used is somewhat biased, it still sheds some light on the relationship between Tou’on-ryu founder Juhatsu Kyoda and Goju-ryu founder Chojun Miyagi. I have not translated the entire article, put only sections of it. If you would... Read more →...
The when to fight question haunted me as a young boy. Before I learn any fighting I used to avoid fights if I could. I did not really know how to fight but I was better than average in sports – so I did not have to fight much before 5th grade. Later in […]...
Build a healthy body Cultivate a strong spirit Honor harmony Avoid fighting and condemn violence From “Karatedo & Ryukyu Kobudo, by Murakami Katsumi pg. 15 How many Karateka can say that they embrace even one of these precepts?...
s practitioners, has waxed and waned according to the milieu of the day. Today the number of participants is high, higher than at any point in karate's long history in fact, but what about the nature of karate training these days, how does that compare with "what" karate was in times gone by...ehm? As regular readers will know, I'm not a great fan of looking too hard at the history of karate; for me...