New Year's Day Training, 2023

We had a great turnout for the New Year's Day training!  It was a great start to the year with some Kihon and Kata. Looking forward to whatever this year brings!

2022 - End of the Year Recap

It's the end of another year. We trained at the dojo for most of the year, with an Omicron wave at the beginning of the year and a few weeks of Virtual training, thrown in for good measure.  We are an aging group, which means our training is not nearly as vigorous as it was just a few years ago.  We maintain, and  hopefully, improve with age, though.

Throughout the year, we focused on Naihanchi, and the other Kata.  We continue to work on employing the principles of a good naihanchi stance, relaxed joints, maintaining our centerline, evenly distributed stances, connecting our elbows, and extending our technique. We also worked a lot on Shirotaru no Kun and Kishaba Sensei's Kata, wich we just call Kishaba Kata.

This was a sad year, as Curtis McVey passed away, early on.  I will be forever grateful for his many trips to Okinawa to train with Sensei Shinzato, sharing what he learned through video, writings, and visits to our Dojo, over the years since 2010, and publishing a book about Sensei's karate methods.  

I was happy that a new person joined us for training in 2022, and was pleased to see the return of one of our long time students at the end of the year, while on break from College.

I hope that 2023 brings some new students into the dojo, continued good health and good training for all.