The Continuous Web: Understanding Fascial Training in Traditional Karate
How traditional karate develops fascial qualities that modern training science is only beginning to understand and articulate.
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Fix Your Shoulders, Improve Your Technique.
…In some of my older students, weak scapular stabilizers – particularly the mid-back muscles (lower trapezius) and muscles along the ribs (serratus anterior) – created whole-body postural problems that (having read Radek’s article) I immediately connected to the stance work and centre of gravity topics Sensei Januš discusses…
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Maai — The Space Between: The Rhythm of Distance in Traditional Karate
Ma-ai — The Space Between This article reflects my personal understanding of traditional karate as taught by Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama and transmitted by Sensei Avi Rokah. Any errors of interpretation are entirely my own. There are concepts in Japanese martial arts that resist translation — English simply has no equivalent for them. Ma-ai is one…
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Fast is not slow…but faster: why training speed matters in Traditional Karate – Part III.
Part 3 – The Philosophy and Integration Sensei Nishiyama often reminded us, “Once you think you know, you are finished — you don’t learn anymore.” For him, philosophy was not an idea but an action. Sensei Avi Rokah, who studied under him for many years, recalls: “The philosophy that Sensei taught was in the doing,…
