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19th January 2008
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3rd January 2008
Happy New Year - Kengokai 2008
Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu – happy New Year.
The Kengokai Dojo of Shorinjiryu Kenyukai Watanabe Ha Karate Australia will resume traning on Monday 21 January 2008 at Fairland Hall in Hunters Hill. Training will be Monday and Thursday evenings from 7.00pm to 8.30pm.
A special, informal training session will be held tomorrow morning, Friday 4 January at 8.00am at North Sydney Oval.
I hope that 2008 is a wonderful year for you, packed full of great training opportunities.
23rd March 2007
Kettlebells used for building up Aussie actor for upcoming movie
According to The Age, for the upcoming movie, 300, Australian actor David Wenham turned to kettlebells to get his physique ready.
Snyder hired Mark Twight, a former mountain climbing world record holder who trains special operations military personnel and ultimate cage fighters, to build the actors’ bodies into Spartans.
Twight designed an eight-week program of tortuous exercises involving old fashioned training tools such as medicine balls and kettlebells. The program emphasised athleticism by combining compound movements.
I believe kettlebells are a wonderful tool for developing your physique and conditioning, and this is being evidenced by their increasing use by actors to get in shape, quickly, for movie performances. Sly Stallone apparently uses kettlebells in his own training in daily life, and he used them several times in the recent movie Rocky Balboa.
All Sparta the plan - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au.
25th October 2006
Happy Karate Day
Following a declaration in 2005 by the Prefectural Assembley of Okinawa (Japan), today - 25th October - is Karate Day. This is in commemoration of the sitting of the 1936 Meeting of the Masters that was held in Okinawa, and at which much of the shape of modern karate was formed.
So happy karate day, on this the 70th Anniversary of the meeting.
Also, Happy Birthday to my father. Its remarkable to me to consider that he celebrated his 2nd birthday on the same day as the 1936 Meeting of the Masters.
13th October 2006
Shishikai Dojos New Website
Congratulations to Sensei Tony and Sensei Jason of the Shishikai Dojo of Australian Shorinjiryu Karatedo in Brisbane on the launch of their new website.
This is a most impressive site that should be added to the favourites list of all Shorinjiryu karateka.
11th October 2006
Kyoshi Myron Lubitsch Promoted to 9th Dan
At the International Shorinjiryu Shinzen Shiai held in New York on 8 October 2006, the founder and President of the International Shorinjiryu Shinzen Kyokai, Kyoshi Myron Lubitsch was promoted to the rank of 9th Dan and awarded the title of Hanshi in Shorinjiryu Karate.
Hanshi Lubitsch has worked tirelessly to bring together many schools of Shorinjiryu under the banner of a friendship society, a group that works together in the same direction, while allowing each school to maintain its own unique syllabus and approach.
Congratulations to Hanshi Lubitsch on his promotion.
27th June 2006
Treading Lightly Launches on TPN
Folks, we all know we’re screwing this planet up. Greenhouse gases, fossil fuel exploitation, deforestation, whaling and depletion of the ocean’s stocks are only some of the issues that we need to pay serious attention to.
One of my dive buddies, Kevin Withnall, along with his good mate Jason, are launching a new podcast on The Podcast Network called Treading Lightly. These 2 guys take a serious but humerous look at the ways that we can all do better to look after our environment.
I highly recommend that everyone subscribe to Treading Lightly, and put some thought into your actions.
15th February 2006
International Budo Institute launches Budopedia
The International Budo Institute is happy to announce that its newly sponsored Budopedia site is now live.
Budopedia is the Free Online Martial Arts Encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Similar to wikipedia and using the same technology Budopedia is specifically limited to the world of Budo, martial arts. It is hoped that this tool will become an important resource for all Budoka, martial artists, no matter what system they study. At The International Budo Institute we are continually striving to bring you the best of breed applications to the world of martial arts learning. You can visit Budopedia at www.budopedia.org.
21st January 2006
Shorinjiryu Shimbun Winter 06 Issue Online
The International Shorinjiryu Shinzen Kyokai, an umrella body for various Shorinjiryu schools around the world, has announced the release of the latest issue of its newsletter, the Shorinjiryu Shimbun Winter 06 Issue. (Its called the Winter issue as its produced by our North American cousins).
Go grab it and have a read.
17th January 2006
Welcome to ASK’s Newest Dojos
The Australian Shorinjiryu Karatedo Association is pleased to welcome our newest dojos to the Association.
The Shishikai Dojo is located in Coorparoo in Brisbane, and is being run by my good friends Sensei Tony Fletcher and Sensei Jason Romer.
The Seiryukai Dojo is located in Birkdale, Brisbane, and is being run by a long time friend and occasional sparring partner of mine, Sensei Barry Bishop.
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish these gentlemen and their students all the best for the development of their dojos.