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Mid-America Newsletter 2015 Q2 Draft 2 MID-AMERICA MONITOR SECOND QUARTER 2015 Master Okazaki Retires as Chairman of ISKF By Martin R. Schrager At Master Camp during the International Board of “T rain and live with the Dojo Directors meeting held on June 15, 2015, Master Kun and Shoto Niju Kun Teruyuki Okazaki announced that he is retiring as always at the forefront of your Chairman of ISKF and appointed Sensei Hiroyoshi Okazaki as the new Chairman of the ISKF. During mind.” the annual meeting of the ISKF Technical Committee, Sensei Hiroyoshi was also appointed by Master Yaguchi as Vice Chief Instructor of the ISKF. Master Okazaki has appointed as his successor, his nephew and many time karate champion, Master Hiroyoshi Okazaki. Master Hiroyoshi Okazaki has also been appointed as the Vice Chief Instructor of the ISKF. Master Teruyuki Okazaki will continue in his role as Chief Instructor. In his letter to ISKF members, Master Okazaki states: “I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the many years you have allowed me to share my Shotokan karate with you and the tremendous support you have given to the ISKF. Your character and martial art spirit has contributed to the high- caliber Shotokan organization we are. I hope you continue to follow these principles and the guidelines of Master Funakoshi and train and live with the Dojo Kun and Shoto Niju Kun always at the forefront of Master Teruyuki Okazaki your mind.” Image Courtesy of ISKF.com Over his many years of service, Master Okazaki has traveled the world over and given his heart and spirit to his students, treating all with the utmost respect. In This Issue... We at Mid-America have been fortunate to have the Self-Training: Going Through the Center - Pg. 2 presence and guidance of Master Okazaki for so many years. It is his wish that we support Sensei Spring Camp 2015 - Pg. 3 Hiroyoshi and we look forward to working with our Master Camp 2015 - Pg. 5 new Chairman. Congratulations Sensei Hiroyoshi Karate and the Self-Defense - Pg. 7 Okazaki! Club Profile - Brown County - Page 8 Congratulations Sensei’s Oberschlake and Weber - Page 13 WWW.MIDAMERICAISKF.COM PAGE "1 MID-AMERICA MONITOR SECOND QUARTER 2015 Self-training: Going Through the Center By Jerry Baker In even the most complex of moves there is a simple core of stability, an intersection of power and form and purpose. As one moves toward and through such a point in any technique, an opportunity for self-training arises. Practicing the act of moving through the center by making effective use of the supporting leg will enable the karate student to learn, and then reinforce, the body dynamics required to move smoothly, efficiently, and with power toward the final destination. Instructors need to observe students as they go about their trainings to see if the students have a grasp of the internal dynamics at the intermediate points of any move to assess if the students are paying attention to more than the finishing moment. Some questions need to be asked. Are the students using supporting legs and feet and the correct posture to facilitate their actions, or Image taken fom Dynamic Karate are they simply rushing from point A to point B? Are M. Nakayama the students using their breath properly so as to be able to relax the body during transitions? Are students coordinate for a timely landing in the final position. So, building the internal cues, the tactile-kinesthetic in the first kata students learn, and already at only the markers, which will guide their self-trainings and create third move, three unique opportunities to build tactile- “physical bookmarks” to inform the execution of kinesthetic connections to facilitate effective movement movements? Are we, their instructors, providing our have been studied. For experienced karate students, it students opportunities to build a catalogue of self- becomes clear that such moments are everywhere in all training strategies so they can become their own of the katas. As we study them in one part of our coaches? training, they become applicable in all parts of our Karate movements are often viewed as a series of training. expansions and contractions. One of the seemingly These moments of coming through the middle, shifting countless number of these movements arrives early in a body weight and center of gravity, and tying it all new karate student’s training as the first steps of Heian together with a culminating breath begin to build from Shodan are practiced. The third move of the kata smaller moves to fully connected katas. As one requires the student to make a 180 degree turn and a practices moves in slowly-paced isolation, which full step from an oi-zuki to the left toward a downward provides time for the student to actually study the small block on the right while pivoting on the left foot. moments of turns and transitions, a greater During this long move the student will come back understanding develops for how large moves help one through the center. That moment, bookmarked with a become more proficient. This process becomes the passing rub of the knees, enables the student to focused self-training that builds the capacity for success maintain alignment from one direction to another. in large-group and partner kumite trainings. Beyond Before that turn, however, a moment often missed by an that, should a real-world confrontation take place, those inexperienced student comes when the center of gravity who study such transitions will be able to respond for the right-handed punch to the left shifts backward to quickly with poise and confidence as they adapt the place more weight on the rear (left) foot to prepare for trainings that have helped them learn how to move that move through the center on the way to the right- properly and have become natural responses to sudden sided down block. Yet again, another of those physical threats. bookmarks is made as the student feels that weight shift to the rear heal prior to the rub of the knees. A final marker is placed at the end of the down block as the right foot, right hand down block, and left draw hand all Continued on Page 3 WWW.MIDAMERICAISKF.COM PAGE "2 MID-AMERICA MONITOR SECOND QUARTER 2015 Self-training: Going Through the Center Continued from Page 2 Eventually, as you have observed when kata there are turns and shifts and redirections. watching very accomplished karate athletes in Become your own coach and seek the depth action, it becomes evident that the rubbing of that self-training provides. Seek to build a the knees during a passing transition is replaced mindlessness of movement as you touch the with an inner tension that accomplishes the physical bookmarks you have put in place to same outcome. This change, however, is not to self-regulate your movements. Train slowly, be seen as a shortcut. The level of skill that is train loosely, train strongly and see what is required to move in a more individualistic waiting to be discovered. Many of us have manner comes with serious training and honest heard Sensei Golden tell us that sometimes you reflection over a long period of time. For any must chase karate, but at other times you must student, the constant attention given to how stop and let karate find you. Self-training to expansion and contraction, breathing, move in ways that match the demands of your transitioning from one position to another, and body and the situation you face will help you to the ability to generate more power through the maintain a high personal standard for your proper balance of tension and relaxation will training and thus become an excellent way to improve one’s level of skill. position yourself to let your karate find you. The chances to give attention to these components of self-training are many. In every Spring Camp 2015 Mid-America Welcomes Sensei David Jones By Adam Clouser Mid-America’s Spring Camp 2015 was One of the most fantastic aspects of the held under sunshine and warm weather on the trainings Sensei had for us was the non-stop campus of The Ohio State University. Our pace with which he moved us through special guest instructor was Sensei David exercises. So many complex drills, combined Jones. Sensei Jones is the Chief Instructor of with the intensity of training, required a high the ISKF Canada and a member of the ISKF level of focus and concentration. Technical Committee, and we were very lucky to have him for the weekend. The weekend’s trainings were physically intensive and full of detailed technical information for a large variety of kata and basic motions. Our attending karate-ka, pushed by Sensei Jones every step of the way, worked their way through various drills and exercises to perfect technique and conditioning. Sensei told us that when it comes to karate practice, lazy training simply isn’t enough and almost correct is not correct. We must push our bodies and minds to make proper technique a habit if we want to Sensei David Jones improve. Image Courtesy of LinkedIn.com Continued on Page 4 WWW.MIDAMERICAISKF.COM PAGE "3 MID-AMERICA MONITOR SECOND QUARTER 2015 Spring Camp 2015 Continued fom Page 3 Basics Drill motion when starting and build our way to speed as we 1. Starting from shizen-tai master the techniques. 2. Nihon zuki in place Sensei Jones also worked with us on a variety of kata 3. Driving back with right leg, kizami-zuki, over the weekend including; Sochin, Nijushiho, Kanku gyaku-zuki, Sho, and Jitte.
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