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www.classicalfightingarts.org • Classical Fighting Arts 9 The Class of 2010: Front row, left to right: Jason Quero, Michael Galose, Yoshio Kuba Sensei, Taylor Prakken, Mickey Brock, Warren Graham. Second row: Paulo Bartolo, Ray Walter, Rick Wilson, Chris Denwood, Leland Pierce, Jeff Bickle. Third row: Rick Arter, Denis Boilard, Alexander Puchalski, David Isenberg, Jonathon Roll, Sarah Morse, Edward Comeau, Jon Berry. Fourth Row: Michael Kwasigroch.

tory worker. They traveled from the UK, needed more resources, they were instantly ees had, what would be for many of them, US, Canada, Portugal, and Brazil, to Naha made available; if a student had a problem, their first sight of Uechi Ryu. Seiyo Itokazu International Airport to be met by a wel- people were set to work on solving it! So Sensei2 took them through the basics of the coming committee of senior members of the different from what one experiences with style and then on to Sanchin, the fundamen- Okinawa Prefectural Karate Do Rengokai, and CFA other karate organizations! tal kata of Uechi Ryu. He emphasized the magazine staff. The Rengokai provided the Okinawa need for body conditioning during his semi- This 2010 event created a blueprint upon Prefectural Budokan for the seminar venue, nar, a requirement which was not obvious which all subsequent events have been based. an impressive building of unique design that to many of our members until they tried to It was simple, practical, enjoyable—for both stands on the edge of Onoyama Park close block Itokazu Sensei’s (“polite”) punches. teachers and instructors—and rewarding to the East China Sea, bounded on one side The well conditioned arms of an Uechi for those of us who organized it. It also by National Highway 58, and on the other Ryu practitioner are weapons. As seminar did much to encourage openness among by the Kokubagawa River. The second floor attendee and journalist Rick Wilson noted: the more conservative Okinawan instruc- Rinsei Dojo in which we train is very large, “Equally impressive—or scary—were their tors who had initially balked at teaching light, and airy, with private changing rooms forearms, which sometimes appear to have publicly. One must remember that for many for students and teachers. Like the building been tattooed purple. Hours of kote kitai or veteran karate instructors, teaching still of which it is a part, its design is unique, arm pounding exercises have turned them means working with one or two students, in and ideally suited to its intended purpose into the equivalent of baseball bats.”3 a private dojo, behind closed doors.1 which, according to the legend above the Tsuyoshi Uechi Sensei taught the after- We also discovered from this first event entrance door, is: noon seminar on Isshin Ryu, a style only that working with the board members recently recognized by the Okinawan of the Okinawan Prefectural Karate Do “…A special place for training the mind authorities as traditional, (dento 伝統) large- Rengokai—our karate hosts, and the larg- and body. In the dojo, budo practitioners ly as a result of his efforts and those of the est karate organization in Okinawa—was must maintain discipline and show proper Rengokai. Quiet and unassuming, Uechi an amazing experience. President Isamu courtesy and respect. The dojo should pro- Sensei is a strong proponent of traditional Arakaki and Vice Presidents Minoru Higa vide a quiet, clean, safe, and solemn environ- training methods as can be seen from his and Zenpo Shimabukuro were efficient, ment.” fists, made hard and huge by years of organized, and fun-loving. If something dedicated makiwara training. Apart from went wrong, it was fixed immediately; if I On that first Monday morning our train- his obvious strength, his most impressive

10 Classical Fighting Arts • www.classicalfightingarts.org Classical Fighting Arts Contributing Editors Wm. Acevedo M. Eng. Kiko Asai-Ferreira B.A. Robert Dohrenwend, Ph.D. The Authentic Martial Disciplines Alan T. Francis, OBE of China, Japan and Okinawa Matthias Golinski, M.A. features are the quality and strength of his Charles Goodin, J.D. kata, which is truly superb. His front kick is Elizabeth Guo, B.A. remarkable for its speed and power, yet he might well be. Zenpo Sensei’s father was Stanley Henning, M.A. performs it without apparent effort.4 a senior student of Chotoku Kyan, (Chan David Hooper, Ph.D. On Tuesday morning, as the Prefectural Mi) a contemporary of Gichin Funakoshi. Brian Kennedy, J.D. Budokan in Naha was closed for mainte- Seibukan karate is distinguished by its Jeffrey K. Mann, Ph.D. nance, we piled into our bus and headed for power, speed, and punishing impact that is Mario McKenna, M.Sc. Gary Masterson M.D. generated by dynamic stance shifting as the Okinawa City, 15 miles north of the capital Richard Nguyen, M.D. city of Naha. The Okinawa City Budokan body is being “whipped” in the character- Graham Noble, B.Sc. was recently extensively refurbished to pro- istic Shorin Ryu fashion, a vital “power” Guy Power, M.A. vide a venue for the All Japan Gymnastic ingredient that is now absent in Shotokan Robert Redmond J.D. Championships, and now boasts superb karate. Alan Ruddock, B.Ed karate and dojos. We have the exclusive Like Zenpo Sensei, Kiyoshi Takamiyagi Dan Smith B.Sc. use of this huge facility when we train there, Sensei5 10th Dan Uechi Ryu is a fluent Charles Swift, B.Sc. and to save them the inconvenience of trav- English speaker, and so I was delighted to Mark Tankosich, M.A. eling south to Naha, we ask senior instruc- encounter him in the lobby of the Budokan Andre Tippett Henning Wittwer after lunch. I assumed that he would be tors who live locally to instruct us. Kousaku Yokota Zenpo Shimabukuro Sensei (10th Dan teaching the afternoon class. I was partly Hanshi, Shorin Ryu Seibukan) was a natu- right, he was, but not alone. Within five Technical Advisors ral choice to teach the morning seminar as minutes, eight additional senior instruc- Isamu Arakaki his dojo and business offices are close by tors arrived including: Tsutomu Nakahodo Nobuhide Asato in Chatan. Assisted by his son Zenshun (10th Dan Hanshi – Living Intangible Fumio Demura and his senior student, Tatsumasa Isagawa, Cultural Treasure), Hiroshi Inada (10th Shinyu Gushi Zenpo Sensei taught with the energy and Dan), Toshio Higa (9th Dan), Hirokuni Minoru Higa sincerity that have earned him his reputa- Yamashiro (9th Dan), Soko Machida (6th Morio Higaonna tion for excellence. It was nonstop Seibukan Dan) and others. The class was absolutely Hung Ting Seng Shorin Ryu, or as one senior Shotokan amazing, given entirely in English, and every Takehiro Konishi attendee put it, “Shotokan on steroids!” It student was handed a set of lecture notes Takayuki Kubota Eiki Kurashita Yukiyoshi Marutani Chosei Motobu Tsutomu Nakahodo Zenpo Shimabukuro Katsuhiko Shinzato Shigeru Takamiyagi Iken Tokashiki Ryuko Tomoyose Tsuyoshi Uechi Kunio Uehara

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entitled: “On The Basic Karate Mentality”6 Denwood (England) with eleven members up and went on with their lives in an orderly by Takamiyagi Sensei who is a Professor of his dojo, and Paulo Bartolo (Brazil) with fashion, as they always do. Emeritus of Kokusai University. ten. However, the reports of food shortages, Every morning our members would ask On 11 March at 2:46 PM the north- that did not exist, coupled with the radia- me, “Who is teaching today?” Every day ern part of Japan was struck by the tion scares,8 did succeed in reducing the they would be surprised by the quality of Tohoku Earthquake and resulting tsunami. group of twenty-eight members enrolled for the teachers, their kindness, and the care Measuring 9 on the Richter Scale, it was the spring 2011 seminars to 14. The reso- with which they taught. Higa Sensei7 (10th one of the worst seismic events ever record- lute souls who did come left their homes Dan Hanshi Kobayashi Ryu) although fear- ed killing 15,848, seriously injuring 6,011, in the Americas, Europe, and Australia for some in appearance and a hard task master and leaving 3,305 people missing, with a Tokyo’s Narita Airport just 22 days after in the dojo, (2,600 full power techniques further 460,000 homeless. The tsunami the disaster. Several members later remarked for a warm-up and he did every one with generated by this cataclysmic occurrence that Narita seemed less busy than usual, and the class) is the kindest and most consider- was as high as 133 feet and traveled at great they did experience several aftershocks in ate man you could wish to meet. Arakaki speed inland as far as 10 km. (6.25 miles). the airport. At 7:25 PM local time, as the Sensei (10th Dan Hanshi Kobayashi Ryu) Despite the often wildly exaggerated and sun set over the Land of the Rising Sun, is extremely strict when it comes to training, distorted reports that appeared in American Japan Transocean Flight JL 3095 took off but would have the whole class giggling with and European newspapers, in Japan there on schedule with our second seminar group his anecdotes and reminiscences. A broad was no panic, looting, civil disobedience, or bound for a tropical island set in the emer- smile would spread across Kuba Sensei’s unrest. The Japanese people simply cleaned ald waters of the East China Sea, almost one otherwise stoic countenance as thousand miles to the south. he demonstrated his diaboli- When I left my home in cal kata applications involving Southern California for locks, throws, and the most Okinawa a week earlier to pre- incredible nerve holds, (he is pare the seminars, I was told by a practicing acupuncture doc- Japan Airlines executives that tor and pharmacist and knows ours was the ONLY group just where to catch hold of that did not cancel their trip you for maximum effect). to Japan that week! They were Despite some initial con- amazed; I was not! cerns on our part, the debut On Sunday morning, after event went very well and was a night’s sleep, our members viewed as a success by all looked energetic and enthusias- involved. If proof were need- tic, so we set off on our Naha ed, I would point to the num- City orientation trip. After ini- ber of attendees at that first tiating them into the secrets of event who have since returned: the monorail system, we vis- Jason Quero, Michael Galose, ited the Budokan so they would Michael Kwasigroch, Warren know where to go on Monday Graham, Sarah Morse, Denis morning, followed by the Jusco Boilard, Nathalie Carrier, Shopping centre, then back to Juan Antonio Balderas and central Naha for lunch at “Main Rosalinda Balderas. Ed Place” in Shinto Shin, the City’s Comeau (Canada) returned in downtown shopping mall. 2011 with 31 students, Chris Continues on page 66…

Tsuyoshi Uechi Sensei, (Isshin Ryu) is a very popular instructor as a result of his superb technique, and genuine humility. Seen here with a student at the shrine in Onoyama Koen, (just behind the Budokan), a favorite lunch time picnic spot for our members.

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This is conveniently located next to the gence, strength, and skill, find each other! depleted by the disaster at Sendai, Arakaki Okinawan Prefectural Museum, a jewel of For the Spring 2011 event we extended Sensei picked a small izakaya11 as our venue. a place that is certainly worth a visit. After our social program to include a farewell He also negotiated a price for dinner that lunch we visited the magnificent Shuri Castle, dinner and tour of the Southern part of included a two hour period during which the former home of the Okinawan Kings. Okinawa using a small private bus provided beer would be served free. The hapless pro- Training went very well that week. by the Cultural Centre. On a warm sunny prietor of the izakaya was clearly unaware of Higaonna Sensei taught two classes9 and day we visited Shikina En, the former the fact that half of the male guests seated Shinzato Katsuhiko10 Sensei joined us for Summer Palace of the Okinawan Kings in his private tatami room were Australians, the first time. Each day brought new teach- and wartime underground headquarters of Englishmen, and Irishmen, individuals not ers, new training methods, and new appli- the Japanese Imperial Navy in Tomishiro unfamiliar with the restorative properties cations. The emphasis was, as always, on City, and then the beautiful if haunting of the national beverage of their respective acquiring knowledge and skills, and not on Itoman Memorial Peace Park. A superb homelands. We were joined for this event the repetition of basic techniques. To this lunch in the dining room of the four star by Arakaki Sensei and Higa Sensei, and the end, our instructors insist that the classes Southern Beach Hotel overlooking the East evening can only be described as a riot. It be small so they can explain in detail and China Sea, was followed by a tour of the was a red letter day for us, and a red ledger answer questions from students. In our Gyokusendo caves, among the most exten- day for the unfortunate owner of this amaz- dojo the atmosphere is serious, respectful, sive in the world, and nearby Okinawan ing little establishment. and hard work is expected. There is also a Village. An enjoyable, culturally significant Our social events were so well received refreshing absence of militarism, no barked outing that provided a welcome change of that for the Autumn 2011 seminar series orders, no snappy responses. This is not pace after a very busy week. we added more. The thirty-two members high school boot camp, but a Perhaps less culturally uplifting was our attending this event came from the Team university where the participants’ intelli- Sayonara dinner. As our number had been Canada Black Belt Institute dojo in Oshawa,

Bus tour of Southern Okinawa, April 2011. Itoman Memorial Peace Park. Front row, left to right: Kunio Uehara Sensei, Miyuki Uehara, John O’Conner, Mickey Brock. Second Row: Rosalinda Balderas, Juan Antonio Balderas, Kathleen Garrity, Steve Herskovits, John Turnbull, Denis Boilard, Francis Seery, Nathalie Carrier, Glenn Irvine, Agnieszka Jasinska, Steve Soars, Michael Galose. Back row: Takayama San.

66 Classical Fighting Arts • www.classicalfightingarts.org Canada. Their senior instructor, Edward next seminar series will be from the ESKK Isamu Arakaki Sensei, the President of the Comeau, had trained with us in 2010, dojo in England, students of alumni Chris Okinawa Prefectural Karate-Do Rengokai is and brought his students back to share the Denwood (Spring 2010). They will be the the person who made these events possible experience of studying traditional karate first group to train exclusively in the pri- by using his using his considerable influ- with senior Okinawan masters. After a week vate dojo of senior masters such as Isamu ence to promote and support them. Zenpo of intense training we toured Southern Arakaki, Minoru Higa, Morio Higaonna, Shimabukuro Sensei is the Rengokai senior Okinawa, adding the Chojun Miyagi memo- Yoshio Kuba, Zenpo Shimabukuro, etc. for in charge of this project, and does a out- rial and the Fukushu-En Chinese Garden to the true Okinawan Karate Experience. A standing job as our advisor, liaison officer, our regular list of landmarks to visit. The few days after they leave, the members of and interpreter. Miyuki Uehara, the local following day we headed north to Motobu our main spring group will arrive from the CFA representative in Okinawa, is the “go and the Ocean Expo Park to experience the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, to” person if you need something done. She amazing Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawan Denmark, and Poland. All will be welcomed is organized, efficient, and prompt; things Native Village, Dream Tower, etc. with the warmth that Okinawans always just “happen” when Miyuki San is around. On 9 October our Canadian members show their guests and which is summed Kunio Uehara Sensei (no relation) is our took part in the Naha City Giant Tug-of- up by one very important word in the official interpreter, and works tirelessly War, a contest that according to the Guinness Okinawan language, Mensore: welcome! You helping non-English speaking instructors Book of World Records, uses the largest straw will always be welcome to train with us in teach their classes, organizes meetings, and rope on the planet. In the morning they Okinawa! accompanies tour groups. I would also like joined the Ufunnasunei parade, and at 2:00 I wrote this report at the urging of semi- to thank our transport manager, Takayama PM precisely, all thirty-two of them took nar members because it gave me the oppor- San, who after a full day taking care of our hold of an ancillary rope and pulled the East tunity to thank the people who make these members, drove all the way from Itoman to Team to a draw. This was a wonderful group unique events possible; the often unseen Naha to return a camera that one of them and we were very sorry to see them leave.12 faces upon whom the success of everything left in his bus. The staff of our (karate Our seminars, the only ones official- depends. Of course, without our amazing friendly) hotel also deserve credit for their ly sanctioned by the Okinawa Prefectural faculty nothing would happen, and so we patience and kindness. I am proud to work Karate Do Rengokai, continue to evolve list their names at the end of this report with these fine people, and eternally grateful and grow. All the members attending our with pride. to them all!

A karate demonstration at the centre point of the rope, where the two halves, male and female, are joined with a huge wooden pin. The karate community is heavily involved in the Otsuna Hiki event at every level. In 2011 the President of the Tug-of-War Preservation Society was Isamu Arakaki Sensei, who is also President of the Okinawa Prefectural Karate Do Rengokai, our host organization.

www.classicalfightingarts.org • Classical Fighting Arts 67 October 2011, Onoyama Park lake, immediately behind the Prefectural Budokan, Naha City, Okinawa, Japan. Members of the Team Canada Black Belt Institute, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, pose for a memorial photo after their last seminar.

For more information: 3. Wilson, Rick, “A Pilgrim Studies in It was mainly our European members from regions Web site: www.karatedata.org the Birthplace of Karate,” Charleston Sunday affected by Chernobyl radiation in 1986 who Interviews of seminar attendees (Okinawan Gazette-Mail. http://wvgazette.com/Life/ cancelled their trips to Okinawa in 2011 on the Travel/201005280851 grounds of radiation risk. This is ironic as they had TV): http://www.okinawabbtv.com/cul- 4. Footage of his and other seminars, and inter- already received a much greater dose of radiation ture/karate/okinawakarete_c/html/2010_ views of our members by Okinawan TV can be from Chernobyl (even though it was 1,000 miles sankasha_semina_en.html found at: http://www.okinawabbtv.com/culture/ away) than the people living in the immmediate karate/okinawakarete_c/html/2010_uechi_semi- vicinity of Fukushima Daiichi! Footnotes na_en.html 9. For Okinawan TV footage of his classes see: 5. Co-author, with Katsuhiko Shinzato Sensei, of http://www.okinawabbtv.com/culture/karate/ the Karate Do Jitten encyclopedia. okinawakarete_c/html/2010_higashi_semina_ 1. Isenberg, David, Alumni April 2010. “Kicking 6. Classical Fighting Arts magazine Vol 2 No.19 Issue en.html it With The Okinawan Masters,” Asia Times 15 June 42 pg. 9 10. http://www.okinawabbtv.com/culture/karate/ 2010: “In fact, while training in Okinawa is gener- 7. President of the Okinawa Karate Do Renmei. okinawakarete_c/html/2010_shinzato_semina_ ally physically and mentally taxing, it is also non- 8. The Fukushima Dai Ichi accident has been com- en.html repetitive, and personal. Okinawan teachers do not pared, unfairly, with the Chernobyl disaster in the 11. A local bar/restaurant, the Okinawan equiva- generally like military type ‘drilling’ and prefer a low (USSR) of 26 April 1986. The result lent of an English pub. teacher-student ratio.” http://atimes.com/atimes/ of gross incompetence by Communist authorities, 12. Please see footage of Naha City Giant Tug-of- Japan/LF15Dh01.html the radioactive material expelled from Chernobyl War (Otsuna Hiki) here: http:// 2. Please see the interview of Itokazu Sensei that spread across the whole of Europe and estimates www.karatedata.org/Video/tug_of_war.wmv starts on page 15 of this edition. of the eventual death toll go as high as 200,000.

Certificated Graduates Faculty

Jennell Armstrong, Richard Arter, Juan Antonio, Balderas, Paulo Isamu Arakaki, 10th Dan Hanshi Shorin Roberto Bartolo, Jonathan Bennett, Jonathan Berry, Jeffrey Bickle, Ryu; Minoru Higa, 10th Dan Hanshi Denis Boilard, Mickey Brock, Nathalie Carrier, Lynn Collins, Edward Shorin Ryu; Morio Higaonna, 10th Comeau, Christopher Denwood, Thomas Flagg, Samantha Forster, Dan Hanshi Goju Ryu; Seisho Itokazu, Mike Galose, Kathleen Garrity, Warren Graham, Stephen Herskovits, 9th Dan Konan (Uechi) Ryu, 8th Dan Mark Hukezalie, Glenn Irvine, David Isenberg, Agnieszka Jasinska, Matayoshi kobudo; Yoshio Kuba, 9th Michael Johnson, Connor Johnston, Erik Johnston, Rachel Johnston, Dan Hanshi Goju Ryu; Katsuhiko Joseph Kowaliw, Michael Kwasigroch, Pierre Lepage, Holly Martindale, Shinzato, 9th Dan Kishaba Juku; Zenpo Karen Martindale, Robert Martindale, Wesley Martindale, Dana Shimabukuro, 10th Dan Hanshi Shorin Miettinen, Matthew Mitchell, Pamela Moore, Sarah Morse, William Ryu; Katsuhiko Shinzato, 9th Dan Shorin Morse, Christopher Mueller, Michael Mueller, Henry Nicholson, James Ryu Tsuyoshi Uechi, 9th Dan Isshin Ryu; O’Connor, John O’Connor, Leland Pierce, Taylor Prakken, Dante Kiyoshi Takamiyagi, 10th Dan Uechi Presta, Alexander Puchalski, Jason Quero, Brian Riley, Jonathon Roll, Ryu; Ryuko Tomoyose, 10th Dan Hanshi Francis Seery, Steven Soars, Susanne Trauzzi, Jon Turnbull, Elisha Van Uechi Ryu; Tsutomu Nakahodo, 10th Tienen, Kurt Van Tienen, Peter Van Tienen, Rosalinda Villegas De Dan Hanshi Uechi Ryu; Sokuichi Gibu, Balderas, Raymond Walter, Richard Wilson, Daniel Wilson. 10th Dan Hanshi Shorin Ryu.

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