One more time

They took down the video of the Vietnamese woman doing kata.

Here she is again:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TkrMdYixodc

The "new" gold standard

This woman is INCREDIBLE.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UP7ltirXYGI&feature=related

It is hard for me to imagine anyone doing better.

Watch, I'll immediately see someone I like even more.

BTW: Heiku is a kata that we have in our John Sells syllabus. If you senior students really like it I'll work at remembering it and teach it to you.

the "old" gold standard

For a number of years I've thought that Mimura Yuki was the BEST kata performer I'd ever seen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VVbbBN2NXI&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JJyijs90oVE&feature=related

I've got a new gold standard.

Good article

Here is a good article:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Makiwara-Training&id=31146

In Hawaii, all the shito-ryu guys were known as having REALLY powerful punches. We didn't take a back seat to anyone, including the Kyokushinkai guys. A number of us used variations on the Tani-ha punch mentioned here and I still teach my interpretation/expansion on the Tani-ha method of developing power.

Welcome to Our Blog

Hello everyone, welcome to our blog, the first attempt to bring the Northwest Karate Federation into the age of the Internet. This is funny when you think of it because I've been using personal computers since 1980, used to have a business selling and repairing computers and have even written a novel on line back in the days before the Internet and the World Wide Web and have coached competitors in Africa and Malaysia over the Internet.. Somehow, it just didn't seem necessary to have the karate school connected to the world. Well, now it seems as though we need to provide more methods for our students, parents and teachers to communicate with each other so we will be experimenting with this blog and developing a web site to complement it. As they say in Japan: Irrashai Masse: please enter.