14 November On 14 November 1889 Shito-Ryu Karate founder, Kenwa Mabuni, was born in Okinawa. Mabuni was one of the first Okinawan masters to teach his style of Karate on the Japanese mainland, eventually settling in Osaka in 1929. He initially trained under Yasutsune Itosu learning Shuri te, He later trained under Kanryo Higaonna learning …
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Nov 14 2022
This week in history…(14 November – 20 November)
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November 14, 2022
- Antonio Diaz, Atsuko Wakai, BKF, Doug Perry, ekf, Elisa Au, FAJKO, Genshin Hironishi, Gichin Funakoshi, Henri Plee, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Jacques Delcourt, JKA, Kanryo Higaonna, Kenshiro Abbe, Kenwa Mabuni, luca valdesi, Mas Tsuroka, masatomo takagi, Mitsusuke Harada, pauline bindra, rafael aghayev, Richard Kim, ryoichi sasakawa, Shigeru Egami, Tsutomu Ohshima, Vernon Bell, WKF, WUKO, Yasutsune Itosu, Yoseikan, Yoshitaka Funakoshi, Yutaka Yaguchi
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Jul 28 2020
Frank Cope
The way I judge people’s Karate and standard; the first thing I would look for is their ‘footwork‘, which obviously ties in with their ‘stances’. If their footwork and their stances are good, then I feel that they have been well taught and trained. Good stances and footwork produce good Karate, in my opinion. Frank Cope …
- BKF, BMAA, British Judo Council, British Karate Federation, British Martial Arts Association, Eastham Residents Association, Francis Cope, Frank Cope, Frank Cope Jr, fred gille, Freddie Wainwright, Harold House, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Hiroshi Shirai, Ian Cope, JKA, jka instructor course, Jock Mackay, Karate Union of Great Britain, Keinosuke Enoeda, Kenshiro Abbe, KUGB, Lilleshaw Hall, Red Triangle Club, Taiji Kase, Tetsuji Murakami, The Art of Empty-Hand Fighting, Vernon Bell
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