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We cordially invite you to attend the Kajukenbo Ohana Association (KOA) 1st Grand Masters Seminar, Awards Dinner/Dance and Grand Championship Tournament July 17, 18 & 19 , 2008 at the Las Vegas Plaza Hotel & Casino A Tribute to our Founder, Sijo Adriano Emperado The leaders of the four main branches of Kajukenbo - Grand Masters Don Nahoolewa, Jon Loren, Al Dela Cruz and Al Dacascos, cordially invite you to take advantage of this opportunity of a lifetime by participating in the 1st Annual KOA... Read More

After 28 years of continuous training in the traditional martial arts I get quite annoyed when someone compares me to a bloke who started up his own school after training for less than a year (sometimes in some made up drivel). We in Australia share the "McDojo" trend - there a number of different kinds - that allow people to teach after only a trivial amount of training.

On the other hand, would I support some sort of government intervention/registration in relation to martial arts? No w... Read More

[Note that this is a continuation of Part 1 of this article.]

One of the chief differences that has been pointed out to me about the way I was taught to do sanseiru and most other dojo is that in the second shiko dachi a jodan uke / age uke is used instead of the sokumen awase uke discussed previously.

In this variation (as demonstrated by Teruo Chinen and perhaps the most common and regarded as the standard) the feet in the shiko are angled 90 degrees but the body is turned 45 deg... Read More

Further to my article about sokumen awase uke in sanseiru, I promised to write another blog about the "other" sokumen awase uke in karate.  Here it is.  For the sake of convenience I have referred to it as "sokumen te awase uke" - since it involves more of the palm and less of the forearm.  I considered calling it "sokumen nagashi uke" however I use "nagashi" for different purposes (sweeping sideways).

Here is a video about the block.  Sorry about the sound quality - b... Read More

For those who are curious, I use the term "sokumen awase uke" differently from the standard karate use of that term.

I use it to describe the deflections discussed in my previous post relating to the variations in Sanseiru (see also the specific video below).



Usually in (shorin) karate the term is (I think erroneously) used to describe a 2 handed circular block.Consider these screen captures of Kanazawa sensei performing the block usually referred to by that name in the kat... Read More

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