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Jun 21 2017
Teruyuki Okazaki
Karate-do is Budo and Budo is not a sport. The real meaning of Budo is to go into life more deeply and improve physical and spiritual qualities through hard training. The essence or concept of sport is to get away with the toils of life and have some fun. Teruyuki Okazaki Teruyuki Okazaki, described by …
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Jun 21 2017
On this day….(June 21)
On this day, 21 June 1957, journalist John Greenhaigh wrote perhaps the first ever article on Karate in Britain. The article appeared in the Romford Recorder newspaper. The piece, entitled “…..is Bringing ‘Killer’ Sport to Britain”, starts with the following paragraph: A short, chubby-faced Hornchurch man is to introduce a killer sport to Britain. He is …
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Jun 19 2017
On this day….(June 19)
On this day, 19 June 1965, Hirokazu Kanazawa took his first teaching trip to The British Karate Federation’s Blackpool dojo. He is there for a week. The Blackpool Dojo was located at the Revoe dojo and boasted a good membership. During the week Kanazawa conducted his first grading for the BKF, with Jack Green becoming the …
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Jun 18 2017
On this day….(June 18)
On this day, 18 June 1976, 22-time European Champion and 6-time World Champion, Luca Valdesi was born in Palermo, Sicily. In 2004 Valdesi became a double world champion, winning both the individual and team titles at the World Championships held in Monterrey, Mexico. He had previously won the Team title in 2000.
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Jun 17 2017
On this day….(June 17)
On this day, 17 June 1938, the Chief Instructor for the JKA in Belgium, Satoshi Miyazaki was born in Sagai, Japan. Miyazaki began practicing judo at the age of twelve. He began his Karate practice, aged fifteen, training with a neighbor. Training was tough as was normal for the time and he loved it. On …
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Jun 12 2017
On this day….(June 12)
On this day, 12 June 1965, Hirokazu Kanazawa took his first teaching trip outside of London to The British Karate Federation’s (BKF) Liverpool dojo. The trip lasted from the 12th to 19th of June. Kanazawa’s teaching schedule included teaching on the Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. On the weekdays he taught from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. …
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Jun 10 2017
On this day….(June 10)
On this day, 10 June 1946, Michael Dewey, the Chief Instructor of Shotokan of England Karate Union (SEKU), was born. Dewey, a boat builder by trade, began his karate training in 1967 at the Portsmouth Karate Club. Dewey, a keen footballer, was introduced to the new art of karate by his girlfriend. On weekends Ray …
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Jun 07 2017
Eugene Codrington
In the 1980s Britain was a dominant force in European and World Karate. In the +80 kg (heavyweight) division they have been blessed with some great fighters, such as Geoff Thompson, Vic Charles and Jerome Atkinson. It could be argued that the prototype for all of these fighters was Eugene Codrington. Codrington was one of …
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Jun 07 2017
On this day….(June 7)
On this day, 7 June 1935, Shotokan master and former technical director of the Japan Karate Association (JKA), Tetsuhiko Asai was born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. As a boy Asai had trained in Sumo, Judo and Kendo. He became interested in Karate after seeing a karate-ka defeat a boxer in a fight. Upon entering Takushoku …
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Jun 03 2017
On this day….(June 3)
On this day, 3 June 1922, the earliest known Japanese newspaper article on Karate was published in the Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun. The title of the article was “The Mystical Martial Art – Karate: (Chinese Fist) from Ryukyu (Okinawa Prefecture). Wonderful Technique to Defend from an Opponent with Bare Hands. Kodokan to Study“. On this day, …
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