Thank you for having us last weekend TKC Okami. Two days filled with training, fun, great BBQ on the beach and grading. It’s been a great pleasure to train with you all and feel your enthusiasm and commitment. Keep the high standard Sensei Anna Machtylska, Arigato gozaimashita!
…Ageing is not a choice, but you can choose how to age… There comes a point in training when the body changes the rules. Not much at first. The techniques still work. The combinations are still familiar. Kata remains somewhere deep in the nervous system, appearing almost automatically once movement begins. But something shifts anyway….
The language of guesswork In the dojo, we often use terms like “power,” “force,” “speed,” and “strength” as if they mean the same thing, when they describe completely different physical phenomena. For anyone training in traditional karate as taught by Nishiyama Sensei and continued by Rokah Sensei, this vagueness creates real problems. Without understanding the…
Last weekend in Krakow, we witnessed an exceptional training opportunity under the guidance of Sensei Avi Rokah, 8th Dan from the United States. The seminar, organized by the Kraków Traditional Karate Club, attracted over 200 karatekas representing ten countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine, Great Britain, Moldova, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Uruguay. For two…