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A Mother’s Special Training IMother’s Day Weekend 5/9/08 – 5/11/08
Slow practiceAt Jim Sagawa's practice (both the Friday night before, and the Saturday practice), and at the Sunday practice last week after Daniel Chemla's memorial, Mr. Sagawa had the class practice breathing and stepping in front stance. There's more to it, of course. Jim is doing stuff I can only hope to understand later, but if he thinks it's what we should do, I'm going to do it. » read the entire item »
More Central Coast Tournament pictures
More pictures from the tournament 4/26/2008
 
More Kingsbury Jiyu-kumiteScott Kingsbury's practice on Monday (5/5/2008) was excellent. Not only did I enjoy it and learn a lot - thanks for all the matches and advice! - I really enjoyed seeing Hiroko laugh so much. She was really getting into the eye-hand coordination practice, and her laugh was so infectious that she had most of the rest of the class doing it, too. Of course, I was so serious you could have mistook me for the Buddha Fudo...not. » read the entire item »
Kumite practice with Scott Kingsbury 5/5/08
I thoroughly enjoyed Scott’s
practice tonight. Wow, we learned a lot from him. He is a dojo leader of
Westside Shotokan, another SKA dojo in town. He was one of my teachers when I started training at SKA
Redding Dojo (then leader: Godan Ken Osborne) in November, 1985.
Scott Kingsbury to lead jiyu-kumite practiceIn this week's Hot News, Nidan Scott Kingsbury will lead a jiyu-kumite practice at Sun Oaks tonight (5/5/2008) at 6:40pm. It's too bad that Jun hurt his foot two weekends ago at the Central Coast Tournament. He's not supposed to practice for a couple more weeks, according to the docs, but I'm sure he's itching to! He'll watch tonight, I hope. » read the entire item »
Jun Nakamiya - Central Coast Tournament White Belt Champion!
Jun Nakamiya - Central Coast Tournament White Belt Champion!
Central Coast TournamentWell, we're off to the Central Coast Tournament today! The tournament is an SKA qualifying tournament for the famous SKA-sponsored Nisei Week tournament. No, I don't have Nisei Week championship aspirations. I'm just participating for the experience. » read the entire item »
Kyu Test Spring 2008Congratulations to all the kyu test participants! The test was last night during the regular class period. We had 14 students testing, including two each from West Side Shotokan (Scott Kingsbury) and Shasta College (Dallas Adams). » read the entire item »
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