Further to my articles "Karate and the Chinese martial arts Parts 1 and 2"...
Many questions have been raised in on the internet about white crane sanchin and its relationship to goju-ryu and uechi-ryu. For those who haven't done so I invite you to visit the website of my friend Martin Watts, a long-time practitioner of Yong Chun white crane. His website (http://www.fujianbaihe.com) has many videos with links to his master's site in China. The videos are very interesting and I think show...
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I've been told that Coming-of-Age Day came on the thirteenth day of January in this year 2008 rather than the fourteenth because it was decided that they didn't want to wait in line for crowded trains on Japan Railways (JR), and so the Kitakyushu Day would be on the Sunday before the rest of the country. This still doesn't explain why the radio station which is based in Fukuoka city had its special on that day.
Really, because it's more relevant, I should write about Asashoryu, the...
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