YKI Newsletter 2015Q3
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Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 In this issue: Promotions & Dojo News ..................................................... 2 Highlights from the 2015 Events ............................................ 5 My Trip to the USA .............................................................. 7 2015-16 Tournament Standings ............................................. 8 Year of the Sheep 2015 Featured Essay .................................................................... 9 Upcoming Events Upcoming Events ................................................................. 13 In this issue of the YKI Newsletter, I have featured one of the November 7, 2015 five winning essays submitted for the summer camp MAF Open Tournament scholarship contest funded by Mr. Jack Cook. Thank you again Start time: 9:00 AM Mr. Cook for your generosity and desire to help our young members! Joseph C Carter Park Gym 1500 block West Sunrise Blvd., This year’s essay topic was: “Should the strong protect the Ft. Lauderdale, FL weak?” The essays are all intelligently written and extremely For more information: well thought out. Although the writers each took a different www.MAFOnline.net approach, the answer to the question was a resounding “yes.” No surprise, right? After all, anyone with morals and compassion would agree that living in a civilized society with the ability to enjoy freedom and liberty would not be possible if November 14, 2015 the strong did not protect the weak. And to that end, our young writers provided an overwhelming amount of evidence to Kata/Kumite Pretest support this concept along with detailed examples of living up Training to the values that we all embrace. 1:00 to 4:00 PM - $20.00 As I read through each essay, I couldn’t get the thought out of TYKI Dojo - Sears Town Mall my mind: “give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man 3550 S. Washington Ave., to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” It also became clear that I Titusville, FL was not able to fit all five essays into the newsletter. So, I For more information: decided to select the essay that came the closest to exploring Ricky Copeland (321) 794-2789 the other side of the question – is it always appropriate for the [email protected] strong to protect the weak and if not, how better to assist? All of the writers touched on this concept but one in particular explored the consequences of good intentions and how they May 2, 2015 January 23, 2016 might otherwise be great intentions if designed to help the Tampa Bay Open Karate weak achieve strength on their own. 1st Kyu/Dan Grade Testing Tournament 1:00 to 4:00 PM - $20.00 I plan to publish all of the essays in the upcoming newsletters Yoshukai Academy of TYKI Dojo - Sears Town Mall so stay tuned. Each one deserves the spotlight and I commend all the authors for their efforts! Martial Arts/Kicks for Christ 3550 S. Washington Ave., Titusville, FL D. Mendelson City of Tamp Police Athletic League For more information: 1924 W. Diana Street, Tampa, FL For more information: [email protected] Cheryl Turner (727) 743-1451 Danny FernandeZ (813) 404-5330 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 Congratulations to Mr. John Mathews promoted to 7th Dan Yoshukai Karate International Mr. Ben Cleveland Mr. Mark Dimond th promoted to 5 Dan promoted to 5th Dan Instructors Certification: Mr. Drysdale received Shihan; Mrs. McClernan, Mr. Myer, Ms. Farrell, Mr. Copeland and Mr. Matthews all received Renshi, Mr. Moore received Kyoshi. 2 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 Rayna Herringdine, 2nd Dan Jeremy Crawford, 1st Dan Jeff Brasseur, 1st Dan Ryan Jairam, 1st Dan Dr. Jeffrey Vasta, 1st Kyu Robert Schattie, 1st Kyu 3 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 Congratulations to Grant Wakefield, Max Germanos, and Telly Tu’u of the Sydney City Dojo, Australia. Grant was promoted to 3rd kyu and Max and Telly were promoted to 1st kyu. Word has it that all tested well with only one black eye (we won’t say who…)! Con Top left: Tim Cheung, Paul Williams, Neil FraZer, Jeff Constable, Euan McLeod, and Leo Robba; Lower left: Max Germanos, Grant (Crazy eyes) Wakefield, and Telly Tu’u Sensei Lee Norris would like to extend a special note of congratulations to the following practitioners of 3rd Kyu Cole Tainui Ryu Kyu Kobudo Hozon Shin Ko Kai Niko Tainui Grant Wakefield Mr. Mike Mendelson – promoted to 3rd Kyu th Mr. Ben Cleveland – promoted to 4 Kyu 1st Kyu Max Germanos Mr. Lonnie Kelley – promoted to 4th Kyu Niko Tainui and Cole Tainui totally rocked Robert Schattie Mr. Cole Tainui – promoted to 4th Kyu their test at this year’s Tai Kai and showed Telly Tu’u everyone how it’s done! Both were Jeff Vasta th rd Sensei Norris holds the rank of 5 Dan in this promoted to 3 kyu – Congratulations to 1st Dan Jeff Brasseur traditional weapons art and has announced that he will you both - awsome job! Jeremy Crawford begin conducting monthly kobudo training sessions at Ryan Jairam his dojo in Gainesville. 2nd Dan Rayna Herringdine Cost is $3 (members) and $8 (non-members). This is an excellent opportunity to train in a traditional kobudo 5th Dan Mark Dimond art with one of the top instructors! Ben Cleveland 7th Dan John Mathews 4 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 Yoshukai Karate International Tai Kai 2016 To see more photos from Tai Kai 2016, visit www.yoshukaikarateinternational.com 5 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 Many thanks to all of you that attended the Randy Gettings Memorial Beach Training hosted by Mr. Mike Myer. This annual event is a great opportunity to train on the beach and always includes a picnic afterward. It did not go unnoticed that one of the TYKI karateka is getting quite good at back kicking waves without getting knocked down. From the photos below, it appears a good time was had by all! 6 12 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 part of their lives to Yoshukai. My main goal in this camp was to learn some new katas and I never thought that learn bunkai, but then I I will come to the USA ever, realiZed that it’s not one but, thanks to my Sensei day job not even one Otto Rumman’s from year job. The biggest Germany inspiration, I disappointment about decided to go to Yoshukai the camp was that the City. On the internet I classes were divided into groups and you actually found a very active man, couldn’t learn and do everything, but you could do his name is Gary White, I what you wanted to do the most. During the camp wrote him with hopes of I heard a lot of Yoshukai stories and some history his response and he wrote too that you can’t find on the internet, of course it back to me and invited me was just a small drop in the ocean, but I still have to live in his house and train with him, I was so time to find out more. happy and honored. Next day I received a I would like to say a big thanks to all the message from Mr.Chris Nelson and he invited me good people I met during the stay, especially to to live and train at his house also, that day I was Sensei Chris Nelson and Sensei Gary White, thanks really surprised about the kindness of these men. to my first teacher Jurij Iljin who made me who I So, I bought tickets and came to the USA. am now, thanks to Yoshukai Latvia team for their First I came to Atlanta, Georgia and stayed with support and finally big thanks to Sensei Otto Mr. Chris Nelson and his family for 5 days, we did Rumann for his inspiration and some good self defense classes and had two encouragement…OSU. training sessions at Seth Schilke’s Dojo with Sensei P.S. I invite all Yoshukai friends to visit our Gary White and Stephen Arroyo who gave very small, but very beautiful country Latvia, you are good advice and fighting techniques. After that welcome J Mr. Gary White took me to his home to North Carolina for 5 more days. Sensei White told me a Mr. Edgars Strelis, age 32 resides in Jurmala, Latvia lot of Yoshukai stories and history, about splits and holds the rank of nidan. He is a member of the and other strange things in Yoshukai I didn’t Yoshukai International Karate Federation in Europe understand. and has trained for over 20 years. One behalf of the Finally we went to the Yoshukai Karate Yoshukai Karate International organization, we International Tai Kai, after 10 hours of driving we would like to thank Mr. Strelis for taking the time to were there. I was so excited to meet so many visit us here in the USA and for his contribution to Yoshukai people, but everybody was so nice. I was the Yoshuaki Karate Federation. A special thanks to a little shocked when I saw so many black belts in Mr. Strelis for contributing all the wonderful one room, but photographs from the 2015 Tai Kai! after a few minutes of being there I understood that they are all simple people who gave most 7 Yoshukai Karate International Fall 2015 2015-16 Tournament Standings as of September 1, 2015 (includes Bamboo Dojo results) Division Cummulative Points Total Name Dojo Age Belt Attended Kata Kumite Kobudo Points Isis Le Tolbert Vero Beach Youth (F) Brown 1 3 3 2 9 Daniel Dudas Port Orange Teen Green 1 3 2 3 9 Parker Bledsoe Port Orange Teen Brown 1 2 2 3 8 Bryson Le Vero Beach Youth Green 1 1 3 1 6 Layne King Port Orange Youth Yellow 1 2 3 0 6 Shawn Page Vero Beach Youth Green 1 0 1 3 5 John Clanton Vero Beach Adult Black 1 0 3 0 4 Andrea Wormus West Palm Beach Teen (F) Brown 1 3 0 0 4 Kiyn Le Vero Beach Youth Green 1 1 2 0 4 Nia Le Vero Beach Youth (F) Yellow 1 3 0 0 4 Greg Van Doren Tampa Adult Black 1 0 0 0 1 William Wright West Palm Beach Adult Black 1 0 0 0 1 Pat Fletcher Vero Beach Adult Black 1 0 0 0 1 Jon Wilbon Vero Beach Adult Black 1 0 0 0 1 Mike Myer Port Orange Executive Black 1 0 0 0 1 John Mathews Vero Beach Executive Black 1 0 0 0 1 Everett Pierce Vero Beach Youth Green 1 0 0 0 1 Quentin Pierce Vero Beach Youth Green 1 0 0 0 1 Ronin Wright West Palm Beach Youth Yellow 1 0 0 0 1 Heather Cousino Vero Beach Youth (F) Yellow 1 0 0 0 1 Congratulations to the top competitors of the 2015 YKI Tournament Circuit! Isis Le Tolbert (Vero Beach) – 31 points Parker Bledsoe (Port Orange) – 26 pts Robert Schattie (Port Orange) – 25 pts Daniel Dudas (Port Orange) – 25 pts Yoshukai Internal Tournament Circuit Rules If you compete in a tournament you will receive one (1) point.