Posted by Jesse in Archive on 06. Feb, 2010 | 3 Comments
If you ever plan on travelling to Okinawa (or Japan in general) to study Karate, remember to take notes.
It doesn’t have to be anything serious though, a small notebook will do.
Why?
Because those notes are very interesting to read a few months after you come home!
Aah… the memories…
Anyway, as you’ve probably figured out, I have [...]
Today I decided it would be time for yet another post consisting of ridiculously many different pictures of ‘bunkai movements’ to a chosen technique.
I’ve done this twice before, here and here.
The purpose of this post is not to tell you “this is the best application for this technique”, but rather to show you the almost [...]
I haven’t counted, but I guess thousands of articles and books have been written about the staking out and guarding of territories by animals.
So thats the topic of today.
Territories.
Birds, fish and primates are all very concerned with this, but only in recent years has it been discovered and understood that man also has built-in, natural [...]
Last week, when I held an evening class in Karate, we had a visit from a young man who trains MMA. He sometimes trains Karate too.
Since we were uneven I had to train with him myself. It was nothing special though, we were just doing some kicks on each other.
But I noticed something that really [...]
Almost exactly one year ago (8th of January, 2009) I made a poll on a popular Karate internet forum, trying to find an answer to why there are so few people training Kobudo in Karate circles.
Karate and Kobudo are, after all, “like brother and sister” and if you are truly interested in one, you can’t ignore [...]
Posted by Jesse in Archive, Karate on 17. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
Today I was looking through my library, trying to figure out which martial arts books I haven’t read in a while.
One of the books I looked through was “Watashi no Karate-jutsu” by notorious Karate pioneer/brawler/scholar Motobu Choki, which happens to be one of my favorite books. It’s a great read, containing many gems, and the [...]
Posted by Jesse in Archive, History & Philosophy on 14. Jan, 2010 | 5 Comments
I sometimes get asked questions like “I want to read some books on Karate, what do you recommend?” and I always find it hard to give a good answer.
There are so many great books, on everything from history and philosophy, to the techniques and methods of Karate that most people don’t really know where to start.
And if they start with the [...]
Posted by Jesse in Archive, Karate on 09. Jan, 2010 | 7 Comments
Let’s begin this post by reading some old news.
This happened in 2008.
It’s still relevant:
Female Karate Champion Defeats Mugger
A mugger in Italy got more than he bargained for when the woman he tried to rob turned out to be a national karate champion.
Four times Italian women’s champion Lara Liotta, 29, was on a street in broad [...]
Posted by Jesse in Archive, Things Japanese on 06. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
[continued from part 1]
Nakamoto-sensei is very fond of travelling.
During his youth he actually made a long trip to America, demonstrating Kobudo in many cities, and today he has visited a couple of other countries too, including Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Russia.
But one country stands out from the rest:
China.
-The first time I went to China [...]
Posted by Jesse in Archive, Things Japanese on 03. Jan, 2010 | 2 Comments
The vitality of the old, bearded man is hard to forget.
With unbelievable swiftness he casually disarms his knife wielding opponents, using his nunchaku, again and again. It looks like he has done it thousands of times before.
He probably has.
We are looking at Nakamoto Masahiro, hanshi 10th dan Okinawa Kobudo, who is in cold Sweden to [...]
