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Let’s look at some bunkai (applications for techniques found in kata) again! Last time we did kakete, &#...

Last time I wrote about the importance of showing up, or in other words regularely doing what you would like t...

“80% of winning is showing up” – Woody Allen Showing up, coming to practise, training. It...

There is a Chinese martial art that goes by the name of Wing Chun. Sometimes they spell it Wing Tsun too. For ...

Although Karate is mainly a striking, punching and kicking art, it involves joint locks, takedowns, strangulat...

There is a quite famous book in Karate circles known as “Bubishi”. You might have heard of it. It ...

I love this story. I thought you might too. An old professor stood before his philosophy class. The students w...

Tradition… A word heard often when speaking about Karate. Traditional values. Traditional techniques. Tr...

Gusukuma Shinpan (1890-1954), also known as Shiroma Shinpan (Gusukuma is Okinawan dialect) was a master of Kar...

The system I train in has strong influences from a man named Fujita Seiko (1899-1966), who was the last inheri...

What is the purpose of Karate? To become famous? To be looked upon like some semi-god and bowed to? Of course ...