Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club

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Sensei Ben Craft's group are hosting this.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their information in their About section.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their information in their About section.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their business hours.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their business hours.

We will be training back indoors in the hall from 17th May. Look forward to seeing you all 7pm - 8:30pm every Monday and Wednesday. Kids classes to follow shortly.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their website address.

Hurst Goju Ryu Karate Club updated their website address.

T. Hokama: Kungfu & Karate

Hokama Tetsuhiro Sensei, 10 Dan Karate / Kobudo Hanshi Phd. Master of Kyusho Jutsu

ほかま 先生、10 段 範士 空手、 古武道 と 急所術 です.

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T. Hokama: Kungfu & Karate Orígen e influencia de estilos chinos de kungfu en el desarrollo del karate, junto con algunos ejemplos prácticos. (Extracto del documental: "Three major sch...

Qigong, Source of Energy

Message from Helmut Kogel. I assisted with the English translation proof reading. This is an excellent book!

Hello friends,

the new book about Qigong is now available on Amazon as eBook and by blurb as printed version. Please communicate it amoung Your students.

best regards to You and Hokama sensei.

Blurb:

link for printed book: https://www.blurb.de/b/9608493-qigong-source-of-energy

link for eBook: https://www.blurb.de/ebooks/702597-qigong-source-of-energy


Amazon

link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07WFVZWV8/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=kogel+Qigong&qid=1565939189&s=books-intl-de&sr=1-1

Helmut

Qigong, Source of Energy Here you will find answers to many questions about qigong, which an interested person commonly asks, be it a beginner who wants to get into the practice of Qigong for the first time or be it an experienced person who has always had "a thousand questions“, but the previous answers were not complete...

2019.11 The 40th years anniversary of KENSHIKAI (拳志會) Dojo｜Visit Karate Okinawa – by Ageshio Japan

Updated information on IKO 40th ann seminar in Okinawa.

https://www.ageshiojapan.com/workshop/future-event/2019-11.html

2019.11 The 40th years anniversary of KENSHIKAI (拳志會) Dojo｜Visit Karate Okinawa – by Ageshio Japan The 40th years anniversary event of KENSHIKAI Dojo by Goju-ryu 10th Dan great master Tetsuhiro Hokama sensei on November 6th-9th (4 days), 2019.

Kenshikai First European Gasshuku 2019 in Stockholm Sweden

https://gasshuku2019.com/

IKO EU Gasshuku 2019 - Stockholm, Sweden

Kenshikai First European Gasshuku 2019 in Stockholm Sweden Okinawa Gojuryu Kenshikai Karatedo Kobudo Association

Bo Jitsu starring Master Tetsuhiro Hokama

https://youtu.be/d7Z_xmo2Apg

Bo Jitsu starring Master Tetsuhiro Hokama risingsunproductions.net presents Bo Jitsu featuring Okinawan Kobudo and karate great Tetsuhiro Hokama who trained with Higa Seko and Matayoshi Shinpo.

One of our members representing our Dojo and IKO at the 100 Kobudo Kata Challenge, by Challenge Okinawa. One of many different countries represented.

Shuri, Okinawa 30/03/19.

(Courtesy of Chris Wilson Photography www.travel67.com)

세계 무술[Martial Arts]-가라데의 원류 오키나와 테(Okinawa Ti - Origin Karate)

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세계 무술[Martial Arts]-가라데의 원류 오키나와 테(Okinawa Ti - Origin Karate) 가라데의 원류인 오키나와 테에 대한 영상... [가라데의 원류를 찾아서.. Find the origin of karate...]

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Shinpo Matayoshi sensei and Tetsuhiro Hokama sensei outside Seko Higa's Dojo (Shodokan) in the '60.

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2019.11 The 40th years anniversary of KENSHIKAI (拳志會) Dojo｜Okinawa Karate Concierge – by Ageshio Japan

40th anniversary of IKO...….

2019.11 The 40th years anniversary of KENSHIKAI (拳志會) Dojo｜Okinawa Karate Concierge – by Ageshio Japan The 40th years anniversary event of KENSHIKAI Dojo by Goju-ryu 10th Dan great master Tetsuhiro Hokama sensei on November 6th-9th(4 days) ,2019.

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Karate and kobudo
Two sides to the same “REAL” coin..

“Unarmed combat is what we enter into when we have been foolish enough not to have a weapon; careless enough to lose our weapon, or unlucky enough to have broken our weapon.” -- W.E. Fairbairn

Okinawan Kobudo (also known as Ryukyu Kobu-jutsu, Koryu, or just as Kobudo) is a Japanese term that can be translated as “Ancient Martial way of Okinawa.” It has as long a history as the human settlement and use of weapons on the island. However, it went through a particular development in the Sanzan or three warring kingdoms period in the 11th and 12th centuries. At that time three kingdoms: Nanzan (Ozato Aji), Hokuzan (Nakijin Aji) and Chuzan King (King Tamagusuku) fought intense battles to control the island. It is at this time that various weapons and other martial technologies such as castle construction and siege warfare were developed. These battles finally resulted in the unification of the Island in the 15th century under the Shuri Dynasty.

The art was further developed within this new centralized Shuri warrior class (Pechin) of Okinawa. Like many other Asian countries these weapons traditionally included the sword, the spear, the battle axe, the halberd and various other bladed weapons and like Karate they came mainly from China. But other weapons were also imported from other South East Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. There is no doubt that the arts surrounding these weapons would have continued their natural evolution had it not been for two important historical events. The first was the Order of the Sword an edict by King Soshin (1477-1526) by which the Okinawan people and the warrior classes were no longer allowed to bear arms. The second was the 'Policy of Banning Weapons' enforced after the Satsuma Invasion in1609.

The invasion of the Japanese Satsuma clan resulted in the repression and oppression of the indigenous Okinawan warrior classes and nobility (Aji). The Satsuma edict banning the use of weapons was no doubt aimed at avoiding the possibility of popular uprisings against a foreign invader. In turn, this repression caused the warriors of Okinawa to adopt various household farming implements as surrogates for their previous bladed arts. These surrogates included such weapons as the:

Bo (Wooden Staff)
Sai (Trucheon)
Tonfa (Millstone Handle)
Nunchaku, (Rice Flail, or Horse Bit and Bridle)
K**a (Farming Sickle)
Tekko (Metal Knuckles)
Tinbe-rochin (Small Turtle Back Shield and Short Spear)
Surujin (Common Chain)
Eku (Boat Oar)
Tanbo (Short Staff or Stick)
Kuwa (Farming Hoe)
Nunti (A Staff with a Sai placed on the end)
Sansetkun (Three Sectional staff)
The Fighting Arts have been around since the beginning of time. Fighting has always been a human instinct which has remained with us throughout the times. As time went on it has been technically developed, systematized to form the present Martial Arts, which can be found practically in every culture. This is what happened to the indigenous Okinawan Life-protection Art known as ?Te? (Ti or Di in Okinawan dialect) meaning Hand.

Ti resembled Okinawan folklore dance and some of its content consisted of Atemi (striking), Tuite (grab hand), and Kyusho-jutsu (vital points art), as well as Nage (throwing).

The RyuKyu's Islands are a small chain of islands located between Japan and China. The largest and most famous of these islands is Okinawa. Because of their strategic location it was a trading center for China and other Asian country. During those times Okinawa had a good relationship with China and China influences their culture, as well as their Life-protection Art.

Karate was born when there indigenous Art of Te was infused with Chinese Martial Arts and other Asian Arts. The Chinese forms (kata) were integrated and modified and Karate was born.

Te became regionalized when it roughly divided into three distinct forms, Shuri-Te, Naha-Te and Tomari-Te. (These were towns located around Shuri Castle.) These weren't names of styles but rather references to distinguish differences in applications, kata and philosophies. It wasn't until the late 1800's to early 1900's that karate took official names to describe or to differentiate styles.

The Kanji or Chinese ideogram for Kara meaning China was used out of respect for the Chinese. So Kara-te meant China Hand.

After the Meiji Restoration, Okinawa was under the rule of Japan. The Chinese ideogram for Kara meaning China was changed to Kara, Ku meaning open/vastness.

Today Karate literally means "Open hand" which refers to the physical means of hand movement and physical characteristics of the hand; which, when combined together represent human nature. That is to say, that, karate should be a natural movement,for example, just as in walking. The natural movements in Karate are typical in the old ways of karate.

Karate is often misinterpreted as empty hand. This is wrong;
The karate or Ti of old went hand in hand with Kobudo, in fact there was no differentiation it was simply just one life protecting form of self protection..

Today there are many styles of karate and Kobudo. These styles, although related, differ in philosophy, and interpretation of concepts. Karate and Kobudo is now divided into 3 categories: Modern, Traditional, and Koryu .

Here the emphasis is on Koryu Karate and Kobudo meaning uses actual fighting philosophy developed by the warrior class. Koryu karate is real karate technique used to stop opponents in actual combat, not the controlled conditions of tournament play.
As is Koryu Kobudo, after all this was the

“ANCIENT MARTIAL WAYS OF OKINAWA”

Sourced in part from Luis Morales Hanshi.

A reminder of our training times.

19/12 CLOSED due to Xmas dinner
24/12 CLOSED
26/12 CLOSED
31/12 CLOSED
2/1 Normal training session
7/1 Normal training session
9/1 Normal training session
14/1 Normal training session but in the Scout Hut not the hall
16/1 CLOSED due to pantomime
21/1 Normal training thereafter

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Sensei John Barnes we should try and get a group only 5 spaces left