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Goju No Seimei 2017-2 July2017 其れは流派ではない ~ 其れは人間である It’s not the style ~ it’s the man GOJU NO SEIMEI - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEWSLETTER OF THE KOKUSAI GOJU KOBUJUTSU KENKYUKAI EDITORIAL Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion EDITORIAL: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion WATASHI GOJU NO SEIMEI Can I ask each of you to think about how you see the IGK, My Goju Life: John COLLETT when you do please think of “us” as a “we,” not a “me.” SENIOR GRADING UPDATE A couple of people have decided to move out of the IGK. IGK ROLLING CALENDAR While it may be sad, it is OK, OK for them and OK for those Let us know what’s happening of us that remain. Perhaps one day they will return. GASSHUKU CALENDAR In this edition of Goju no Seimei I have given you my Get ready for Camp personal watashi goju no seimei, Sorry, but it helps to fill the TECHNICALLY SPEAKING pages! Be the Kata! I have added a list of things that you need to keep in mind WHAT’S NEW AROUND THE IGK when practicing your kata – not meant to put the A sneak peak at the near future frighteners into you – simply something to think about and absorb over time. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY MIYAGI Chojun Sensei, Founder of Goju-ryu Also a quick look at two more of the weapons being introduced by Hanshi. The trip to the USA in now planned for September/October so please contact me if you are looking at joining us on the trip. It will be a wonderful opportunity to catch up with some of our colleagues that we don’t see very often. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In addition, Ceberano Hanshi is looking at going to Kauai CONTACT THE EDITOR AT: in 2018 – get on board with this trip – Kauai isn’t glitzy like [email protected] Honolulu/Waikiki but it is a beautiful place with lots of BACK ISSUES: interesting people. http://www.minaputa.com.au/GnS.html As always, this newsletter relies on each of you letting me know what’s happening around the place so keep in touch. My very best regards, GOJU NO SEIMEI THIS GOJU LIFE 2017 #2 J ULY 2017 Remember, karate is like life. You have to be in it! Train often, train hard, train smart. WATASHI GOJU NO SEIMEI 私剛柔之生命: MY GOJU LIFE: JOHN COLLETT Hi there! My name is John Collett (my real name is William Collett but that is another story.) You might know me as Collett Shihan, although I prefer the title sensei in the dojo, I am better known simply as “JC” or occasionally as “Messiah,” thanks for that one Watusi. I have been involved in the Japanese martial arts since 1963 when I started in what was then the rather exotic martial art of Judo at my local PCYC after viewing a newsreel about it at the cinema in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympic Games. In truth, I started in amateur boxing, but I quickly grew tired of blocking every punch with my face! After a while I grew tired of the competitive aspect of Judo and drifted off to look for something else. In those early days, like so many beginning martial artists I floated here and there, not really knowing what it was I was looking for but knowing I hadn't found it yet! After witnessing a “friendly contest” between three brothers who were close friends of the family, one a boxer, another a Tae Kwon Do practitioner and the third a Jujutsuan 柔術家 Jujutsuka that resulted in one broken arm and an assortment of cuts and bruises I decided to give Jujutsu a try. However, it wasn’t until 1972 after moving to Darwin for work that I found my place in the world of budo when I met and became a student of Master Raymond Lea, a senior student of the late Professor KAM Hock Hoe and now the master level instructor and president of the Kokusai Jujutsu Kenkyukai 國際柔術研究会 International Jujutsu Research Society I remain to this day a student and close friend of Master Lea and assist him with research into and promotion of Professor KAM Hock Hoe’s Hyou-ha Bankoku 豹派萬國柔術 Panther Lineage International Jujutsu Jujutsu Goju no Seimei ~ This Goju Life – 2 – 2017 #2 July 2017 Edition In parallel to jujutsu under Master Lea I was practicing a number of other martial arts including the Korean art Tang Soo Do under the late Robert Caputo Sabumnim 사범님 Instructor JKA Shotokan karate, Taiji Quan and other Chinese martial disciplines. Most of my non-jujutsu training however, has been in Goju-ryu Kenpo under the guidance of Tino CEBERANO Hanshi of the IGK or Kokusai Goju Kobujutsu Kenkyukai 国際剛柔古武術研究会 International Goju Classical Martial Arts Research Society and my Sempei Warwick SHEILS Shihan and Alex ALT Kyoushi starting some where in the early 1980s in the Canberra Dojo run by the Sheils family. Back then of course we were still part of the Yamaguchi-ha Goju-kai. My earliest introduction to Goju-ryu was in 1972 when my friend Wayne Johnson Sensei, then something like yonkyu green Now Yondan lead a Goju-kai Goju-ryu study group at the back of the old Darwin PCYC. Back in those early days I went out of my way to stay in the background and just enjoy the training but in recent years Ceberano Hanshi and Sheils Shihan and my old Canberra Seifukan 西風館 Dojo of the West Wind dojo mates forced my hand and made me “go public” as it were, for that I think I thank them! As I have matured I have come to understand that these two arts are closely coupled with each providing skills and philosophies that enhance the other. Over the last few years I have managed to damage my body somewhat and training has been difficult, but I have been able to teach and assist Ceberano Hanshi from time to time. It is one of my greatest joys to see that my two principle teachers, Master Lea and Ceberano Hanshi have become friends and are actively cooperating in the development of the IGK and that I am able, with others to assist in that development. The other great joy that has come to me from my more that 50 years in budo are the few close friends that I have across the world that keep on keeping on passing on the many skills and philosophies that we share. While I have pretty much been off the dojo floor of late I have been quite busy with one thing or another. I have been helping Ceberano Hanshi with the development of new IGK Handbooks, putting this newsletter together, travelling with Ceberano Hanshi to Oahu for training and to Kauai where I had the great pleasure to spend time with a gentlemen by the name of Dallas (Grady) Watenabe of Shorin-ryu fame who I hope you will all get an opportunity to meet in the future as he has the “dirt” on many historical karate events! I have also had the pleasure with Master Lea’s approval to re-develop three of the Kokusai Jujutsu Kenkyukai’s Kuatsu courses Kuatsu is a traditional Japanese method of lethal striking and reanimation for teaching to IGK seniors. I now find myself with a new knee and a new hip and I am becoming much more mobile. This is allowing me to get back to work on my tiny personal dojo, the Minaputakan 南風歌館 Hall of the Southern Wind Song here in the beautiful Barossa Valley and I hope to have just a few students there and to be training again myself by the latter part of this year. Goju no Seimei ~ This Goju Life – 3 – 2017 #2 July 2017 Edition This also lets me get back to another project that is close to my heart, which is to examine non-traditional kata. I am pleased to see that Steve Dare Shihan has taken up the flame of keeping the Niipai 二十八歩 28 Steps kata alive because that allows me to concentrate on the Tumaidi 泊手 Tomari-te kata Arakaki no Sochin 新垣の壮鎮 Arakaki’s Men of Peace that at least in part feels very much like a Nafadi 那覇手 Naha-te kata. This kata would have been known to our founder MIYAGI Chojun Sensei 宮城 長順 April 25, 1888—October 8, 1953 as he trained initially with ARAKAKI Ryuko Sensei 新垣 龍子 1875-1961 Today this kata is mainly practiced in Suidi 首里手 Shuri-te schools. While familiar in feel it also exposes a Goju-ryu practitioner to “other” methods that I think add a new dimension to our Goju-ryu way of doing things. Another kata I am examining is Kusanku no Jiffa 公相君の夹发 Kusanku’s Hairpin – this kata closely resembles the Suidi kata of the same name but is practiced in Goju-ryu’s sister Nafadi school Uechi-ryu 上地流 Originally called Pangai-noon 半硬軟 "half-hard, half-soft" as a weapons kata using the Jiffa haipins as a weapon. I am looking at adapting Kusanku no Kata to the IGK method and using Dulo-dulo Filipino Hand stick, Kaiken 懐剣 Dagger and Karambit Filipino Rice Knife in addition to the Jiffa. A few facts and figures, I currently hold the following grades: • IJRS Menkyo Souden: Jujutsu: Licence of Direct Transmission • IJRS Hachidan: Jujutsu: 8th Dan • IJRS Menkyo Kuatsu Senmonka: Kuatsu & Hakuda Kempo: Licenced Kuatsu Specialist • IGK Godan Goju-ryu Kenpo: 5th Dan • DNBK Godan Karate-do: Certified 5th Dan in Japanese Karate-do I currently hold the following teaching titles: • IJRS teaching title of Souden Shihan • IGK teaching title of Shihan I am a member of the following organizations: • Member Kokusai Jujustu Kenkyukai (IJRS) International Jujutsu Research Society • Member of the IJRS Shihankai • Member of the Kokusai Goju Kobujutsu Kenkyukai (IGK) International Goju Clasiccal Martial Arts Research Society • Member of the IGK Shihankai • Member of the Australian Jujutsu Association • Certified member of the Dai Nippon Butokukai International Division (DNBK) • Member of the Kokusai Bugei Hozonkai International Martial Arts Preservation Society • Member of the Hyou-ha Bankoku Jujutsu Zen Domei-kai Hyou-ha Bankoku Jujutsu Alliance For me, I love my family and my friends and I do have other interests, but in all honesty I can’t envision a future without budo.
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