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Videos sensei Takeshi Yamaguchi (JKS)

administrador — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:50:30 +0000

El sensei José Luis Moctezuma, de Los Cabos, nos comparte 3 ligas de videos del sensei T. Yamaguchi (6 Dan JKS) en un seminario con el sensei Dato en Nueva Jersey.

Höfter höfter höfter

Tapper — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:58:25 +0000

För snart 6 år sedan när jag började träna karate trodde jag aldrig att det mesta bygger på höfterna. Slag, blockeringar, sparkar och vändningar allt bygger på att höfterna roterar och det ska vara snabbt! Har precis kommit hem från en mycket givande träning där just höfterna åter kom i fokus. En hel del olika sparkövningar där höfter och balans är nyckeln till kvalitet och ett bra resultat. Efter träningen kändes det som om höfterna varit på rundsmörjning, ingen rost och inget gnissel kvar. Tyvärr är verkligheten en helt annan när jag vaknar imorgon. Men det är smällar man får ta!

Återigen gick vi igenom Kanku Dai och slipade vidare på tempo och tekniker. För er som inte vet hur Katan ser ut kommer här ett klipp:

Uppstart!

Tapper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:28:18 +0000

Nu är jag på spåret igen!
Började lite mjukt i söndags med genomgång av Heian katorna och dess förändringar. Fortsatte i onsdags även då med kata fast mest Bassai Dai och Kanku Dai. Och idag fick jag vad jag behövde! Kroppen skrek SLUTA, och Oj vad man tappar fort! Kondition, fysik och vighet. 2 varv i dojon och pulsen var på väg ur kroppen, fysträning efter 10 minuter gjorde det ont i kroppen och stretchen ömmade bra den oxå. Men det är så det är, enda trösten är att man faktiskt hämtar upp det rätt fort igen om man bara pressar sig och ligger i.

Nu siktar vi på nästa vecka, helgen går till annat!

Kanku Dai

Tapper — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:00:48 +0000

Mission Accomplished

mannairesalmeen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:53:55 +0000

What I love about having training courses is the unbelievable amount of information I get in just 5 days. Three times a year I train with either Sensei Marc Stevens or Sensei Dirk Heene. Sensei Stevens comes twice and Sensei Heene once. When Sensei Marc comes we focus on one Heian kata, and one higher level kata. This year was Heian Yondan and Kanku Dai. Well today was the last day of a wild course with Sensei Marc, and boy how it feels absolutely amazing to know the Bunkai of Heian Yondan and Kanku Dai backwards and forwards in such detail! So anyways, I decided to share a few sweet memories of this years winter course:

The first day was tiring, I wasn’t too into the training even if I was excited about it, and I was just exhausted from all the work at college. It was hard keeping up with the whole 3 hours, and I wont forget running across the road to the Co-op during our 15 minute break to sneak in some candy.

The second day was a bit better, worked a lot harder and loved the basic Kihon we built up.

The third day – I think this was the day me and a friend had Red Bull and coke during our break (we’re so bad I know).

The fourth day was a bit of a blur to me honestly, since we worked hard to cram in all the final information, then to scan over it on the last day.

The last day was upsetting to see Sensei Marc go =( We gave him a precious 50 year old vase from China as a gift, metal on the inside, porcelain on the outside.

I think the best part of the training was learning how to correctly execute the throws in Kanku Dai, and building up a long Kihon which we practiced with partners.

I loved when we were so exhausted after cutting up Kanku Dai into 4 pieces and training them over and over, and when Sensei Marc was about to end the class, I won’t forget how a certain someone simply insisted on an entire run-through of the whole Kata from “Zero to Zero”.

I love the tone of Sensei Marc’s voice, and the way he yells that makes you want to work so much harder. But I cant help but cower when he comes up and yells “What are you doing?!”, even if he always has a smile on his face.

He pushed us to improve our kata, focusing like mad on technique and screaming out “HOLD YOUR POSITION!” about 50 times each training. Then when we did it fast he would tell us to let go and just do it, and I quote, “Just because you lost the movement, doesn’t mean you lost the fight”.

Courses are tiring, demand hard work, extensive hours, I come him more bruised than ever, I feel like throwing up a lot, and two years ago I worked myself too hard in a course that I fell really ill. But in the end it’s all worth it. This man is in the county for only five days, but as we say, “Squeeze him like a lemon, get as much information as you can”.

So I just want to say Thank You Sensei Marc for yet another spectacular course, and we hope to see you again in a few months time!

Summer of 2007 Karate Week

shotokankarate — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:00:48 +0000

Sensei Doug’s Week of Karate
For the next 10 days, you get to come along, virtually, on my journey of Shotokan Training. Out of the blue, I’ve come upon the… opportunity… to work from Winnipeg for the next week-and-a-half – and, while I’m here, I’m going to take advantage of some intensive Shotokan karate training at the headquaters Dojo for Western Canada.
Here’s some of my karate training goals as I start off the week:

Review and practice all Senior Kata

Learn Junro Shodan

Study how to teach my intermediate students to create “Drive” in their stances

Video Tape and publish video clips of each training session within Sensei’s Office on MyShotokan.
Monday evening. After a seemingly endless 6 hour drive from Atikokan to Winnipeg, I was treated to a special evening training session with Sensei Don DeGrow, a Shotokan Yondan, and my Sister Jill, who is a Shodan. This is the monday of a long-weekend, and there wasn’t a normal karate class scheduled. We started off at the beginning and practiced each of the Heian Kata, then the three Tekki Katas. I noticed a small change in Tekki Sandan – I’ll have to review the videos to verify.As we started our review of the senior kata, we practiced them in groups. Bassai Dai, Kanku Dai, Empi and Jion are needed for someone testing for Shodan. I found that I recalled Gankaku, Jutte, and Hengetsu – but I was a bit rusty at them, and had to watch Don and Jill in a few parts. After a few more repetitions I’ll be able to start asking about practicing applications.

Next we reviewed Sochin, Bassai Sho and Chinte. I could follow along for these, but they were distictly more rusty, and will require more than just a couple times through each kata to get them back in my repetoure. Kanku Sho and Nijushiho are at about the same level of disrepair.

Unsu and Gojushiho Sho were another step down in proficiancy for me.

We practiced Junro Shodan 6 or 7 times and I’m starting to recall the first 10 moves or so before I get lost… I’ll have it by the end of tomorrow.

I only did a short introduction to the stretching routine Alanna has been working our club through. I’ll need to write out a short list of the static-active stretching routine so I keep to the schedule of long periods of relaxed stretching after each training session over the next 10 days.

Through the week I’ll need to find an instructor to help me learn Meikyo, Wankan and Jiin from scratch – but I’ll leave them for a couple days.

Following the extra training Don gave us, Jill and I were invited to his home for dinner. An oriental influence is evident in the decor and garden of their delightful and cosy home.

In order to re-inforce all the kata information Sensei Don reviewed with us, I’m going to take a few moments to stretch and watch some of the Shotokan Kata Videos.