Special Notice!!!!

 

The date of this training has been changed to June 11th (Sat) due to schedule conflicts. This is open to all CSK/KOJF members and non-members. This is a must attend seminar with some high level training. You will not be sorry you attended.
This training will be intense. Bring your hand towel and notebook.

   "Shut up & Train / High level kata"

 

 

 

 

Place: Cincinnati Shotokan Karate-do Dojo(KOJF Hombu)
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Date: June 11th, 2011
Fee: $20
Subject: Advanced Karate/ High Level Kata
Instructor: Dwight Holley, Kyoshi 8th Dan Karate-do

*Bring your hand towel to wipe your sweat and video camera to document your training. All KOJF/CSK black belts are expected to attend. You will not be sorry you attended. This is serious training. This will be one to remember and help you advance your karate skills. Please RSVP due to limited space.

• Contact: cincinnatishotokan@yahoo.com
• Phone: (513) 385 - 4830

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Cincinnati Shotokan Karate-do
9244 Colerain Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45251
Phone: (513) 385-4830
email: cincinnatishotokan@yahoo.com

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Special Announcement! 

Shotokan Karate-do Seminar

 Andre Bertel Sensei, 6th Dan from New Zealand!

Date: August 27th & 28th
Location: 10490 Taconic Terrace, Cincinnati, OH 45215-1123
                       (Beautiful large traditional Japanese Karate dojo)
Time:  1st session: 1pm to 2:30pm
            2nd session: 3pm to 5pm
Fee:    1st session:   $50 in advance/$65 at the door
            2nd session: $65 in advance/$75 at the door
(Note: both sessions $99 in advance/$130 at the door)

Hosted by: Karate of Japan Federation, USA Honbu
Dwight Holley, Chief Instructor

* RSVP required due to limited space.  Deposit required of $50 by May 31st to reserve your place.
*Send check, money order or call with credit card information to:
Cincinnati Shotokan Karate-do
9244 Colerain Ave
Cincinnati, OH. 45251
(513) 385-4830
email: cincinnatishotokan@yahoo.com 

Unfortunately New Zealand suffered a very large earthquake over 6 on the ritchtor scale and suffered many casualties.  Sadly they are in the midst of the worst event in recent history of the country. This is important because our friend Andre Bertel Sensei of Asai Ha Shotokan ryu Karate-do lives there and nearly escaped injury with his wife as they were driving along the motorway. We thank God that the news of his safety rings through and hopefully the damage to his family and property I hope is minimal.  I am sure he will further inform everyone in time but they were without power for quite few hours. 

Should he need any assistance I am sure he will reach out to all of us as I have sent an email sharing our concern.  I will try to keep everyone abreast of their progress as I am certain it is available with the news cast.  Our prayers are all with him and his family. Osu!

"The more you sweat in training the less you bleed in battle!"

    Before the movie "300" (the tale of Spartan warriors) came out I was touting in the dojo these words of training advice to the deshi.  They understand the importance of this.  Pushing yourself to the limits and then beyond.  I always tell the students that "I will make harder in the dojo during training that it will ever get outside."  It is important because most people will train to a point on their own and when they start to tire out decide that is enough and never train to exhaustion only to the point of being tired.  Pushing yourself is always the hardest but of course it is my job to do just that.  I have been in training when I felt like I was going to pass out, even just recently in Virginia at the Butokusai training in the ocean on the beach at about 30 degrees outside at 5:30am in the morning with just a karate dogi on.  I survived(bearly) but I survived and believe I am stronger for it.(or simply nuts!

   If it weren't for others around me doing the same thing and sensei edging me and the others on I might have simply said "this is enough!" but I didn't.  I am glad that I did not give up but stretched my limits.  I hope that you too will find yourself being challenged and your limits pushed.  No matter what budo art you practice, mines being karatedo, find a way to stetch your limits and go beyond your normal boundaries to find that you can not only survive the training but expand your horizons in life itself.  I look forward to sharing more on what little I know of karatedo. Osu!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zmL6BRCOA&feature=related

My dojo:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgeleVAvQW0 

Andre Bertel Sensei scheduled for August 2011

CORRECTION:  In a previous Blog I apparently posted that Andre Bertel Sensei was rescheduled and not coming in August.  This was an error on my part.  He is being scheduled for Cincinnati Ohio the last weekend in August of 2011(this year!).  Please post and mark your calendars for this time. 

      You can RSVP me at karateofjapan@yahoo.com  so I can ensure we have enough space to accommodate those wishing to attend.  Place and times to be announced(TBA).  

*Special Seminar scheduled for the last weekend of August 26th/27th.

I am certain you will find this one of the best seminars you will attend in 2011!
Contact me via the email to RSVP: karateofjapan@yahoo.com 

Humbly your friend through Karate-do,
Dwight Holley

Karate in Japan...

I wanted to simply make a quick note regarding Karate in Japan and my experience.  Though when I first went to Japan in 1974 I was already the holder of the rank of Shodan having earned that rank in 1969 while in high school in Cincinnati, Ohio.  I found that I was not nearly as good as I thought I was.  Boy did I find that out quickly.  Fortunately I was guided well upon my arrival in my first Japanese dojo to bring and wear a shiro obi(white belt).  I think it helped me get accepted by my sensei and get privy to learning the more advanced Shotokan kata like Unsu, Gojushiho and others which at that time I was not learned in.  I was infected by the likes of Bruce Lee and the incredible movies of that period like Kung Fu Invisible Fist and the Five Fingers of Death.  I even mimic'd many of the fighting sounds and style of these movies so when I went to Japan my karate was sloppy and truly somewhat useless. 

I was like the nail sticking up from the floor that had to be hammered back down and polished again.  It was a great learning experience.  My sensei was one of the best in Japan I could have lucked into, Isao Aioki at the time a Godan and under the JKA and still alinged with Hirokazu Kanazawa Hancho.  I have fond memories of those days of training there in Higashi Fuchu at Fuchu Air Station.  Later I will share more of this training but I have added a youtube link being one of my favorite of some of the JKA sensei demostrating my beloved standard JKA Shotokan of which the world is more familiar with in it's more pure form and practiced by some of the "old guard".  What explosive and wonderful skill.  I hope to someday get somewhat close to before I die.  Enjoy!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4KSLUzv3sQ


Humbly your friend through karate-do, Osu!