masutatsu oyama – Finding Karate

Aug 09 2020

David ‘Ticky’ Donovan

Filed under Competition, General, Ishinryu, Kyokushin, Wado-ryu
August 9, 2020

To be a black belt in Karate means training regularly. If you don’t train, you lose your coordination. Look at an average Karate class and as you go up the belts, you see the coordination and skill getting better. That’s what Karate training is all about. But a black belt who hasn’t been training for …

Aidan Trimble, Black Belt Magazine, British Karate, English, Geoff Thompson, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Ishinryu, Isshin-ryu, Jilian Toney, Julliet Toney, Keinosuke Enoeda, kyokushin, Len Palmer, masutatsu oyama, Molly Samuels, Pat Mackay, Roy Stanhope, Steve Arneil, Tatsuo Suzuki, Team Kumite, Ticky Donovan, Vic Charles, Wayne Otto, World Karate Champions

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Jun 19 2020

Stan Schmidt

Filed under General, JKA, Shotokan, Traditional
June 19, 2020

I learned that you can achieve more by remaining calm, and keeping your emotions stable, than by trying too hard to overpower an opponent. I found that correct utilisation of energy was very necessary. Stan Schmidt Stan Schmidt can be considered a trailblazer when it comes to Karate. With over fifty years of training in …

Claude Chanu, College of the Openhand., dave hazard, Early Birds, Eddie Dorey, Father of South African Karate, Gary Player, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Hiroshi Shirai, Japan Karate Association, Jimmy White, JKA, jka instructor course, keigo abe, Keinosuke Enoeda, Keith Geyer, Ken Wittstock, King Edward VII School, Masaaki Ueki, Masahiko Tanaka, Masastoshi Nakayama, masutatsu oyama, Norman Robinson, Shihan-Kai, South African Championships, South African JKA Karate Association, Stan Schmidt, Suguira Motokuni, Takeshi Oishi, terry o'neill, Tetsuhiko Asai, Uki Kata, Yukichi Tabata

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Mar 31 2017

Dominique Valera

Filed under Competition, General, Shotokan
March 31, 2017

… Contact is the one and only thing that can establish the truth in a combat sport! This does not mean that we have to go back to the Survival Games of old. Mastery is when you touch with control without hurting. Dominique Valera Arguably Europe’s best-known Karate competitor of the 1960s and 1970s, Dominique Valera, a …

Alain Setrouk, Billy Higgins, Black Belt Magazine, Chojiru Tani, Dominique Valera, European Karate Championships, FNBA, François Sanchez, French Open Championships, Gilbert Gruss, Guy Sauvin, Hiroo Mochizuki, Jacky Gerbet, Jacques Delcourt, Jean Perrin, Jean-Pierre Lavorato, Jean-Robert Baroux, Jeff Smith, Koji Wadsa, Marcel Cerdan, Marcellin Cerdan, masutatsu oyama, Minoru Mochizuki, National Federation of American Boxing, Patrick Baroux, Pedro Rivera, Philippe Ficheux, Ticky Donovan, Yoshinao Nanbu

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Sep 01 2016

Steve Arneil

Filed under General, Kyokushin, Traditional
September 1, 2016

I look back to the way I trained. Many of the things we did were plain stupid. We didn’t know any better, you know if you could stretch your legs a certain way they were forced by someone helping you – there would be tear marks from stretching. Nowadays there are proper ways of training …

100 man kumite kyokushin, 100-man kumite, All Styles Karate team, Allen robinson, Billy Higgins, bkk, Bob Boulton, bob rhodes, British Karate Kyokushinkai, Chiyako oyama, Donn Draeger, Gogen Yamaguchi, Ikebukuro, IKF, International Federation of Karate, jack robinson, Jacques Delcourt, Kenji Kurosaki, kyokushin, Kyokushinkai, Mas Oyama, masutatsu oyama, Steve Arneil, terry o'neill, Ticky Donovan, Tsuyoko arneil, You Only Live Twice

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Mar 05 2016

Martial Arts News & Articles n.27

Filed under General, News and Articles
March 5, 2016

Welcome to another selection of posts and articles that have caught my eye. Please sit back and enjoy the current selection. The 20 Greatest Kyokushin Karate Fighters Of All Time #12-09 A post profiling some of the greatest Kyokushin fighters. Read more Sanchin Kata: Does it lead to premature death? In this post the author examines …