2013 Japan Training at Naka Shihan Dojo. Oss Naka Sensei is one of the best Technicians of the Nihon Karate Kyokai. Very few of such technics has been showed in the past. It’s amazing to train with him! Thank you Sensei! ...

Advanced Samurai Swordsmanship Rise to the next level of sword mastery with this three-DVD set! In Advanced Samurai Swordsmanship,Japanese sword master Masayuki Shimabukuro and his senior student, Carl E. Long, delve deeper into the elegance of body-and-weapon movement that defines personal mastery of the legendary samurai sword. This three-disc martial...

To confirm the rumour that has spread around the world, it is true that I have recently joined the JAPAN KARATE ASSOCIATION (JKA). This occurred via the assistance of Naka Tatsuya Shihan.  At the beginning of October I officially began training under Nakamura Masamitsu Shihan in Central Kumamoto, which has been fantastic. Supplementing this practice...

NEW PUBLICATION: KARATE DO BOOK: “COMPLETE KARATE-KATA METHODOLOGY” Sensei Luke Perry, Sensei Antoine Etcheverry of France, Sensei Thierry Lint of Belgium, Sensei Marcus Gutzmer of Germany, Sensei Daniel Acuña of Lima, Peru and Sensei Hernán Beltrán Silva (Chief Instructor of S.K.I.F. Chile), they have got a book and and his opinion is very favorable. “An...

EDWARD MTSHALI SENSEI Born 26/04/1948, Sensei Ed has 65 years old. He has been training karate for 47 years and has had to overcome many challenges in his life. His first instructor was Samuel Maimane who was a blue belt. They were training shotokan karate. The only reason he knew it was shotokan was that the book they were using was Sensei Nishiyama’s...

Keinosuke Enoeda (The Tiger of Shotokan Karate) Keinosuke Enoeda (榎枝 慶之輔 Enoeda Keinosuke), 4 July 1935 – 29 March 2003) was a Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He was a former Chief Instructor of the Karate Union of Great Britain. Enoeda was ranked 8th dan in Shotokan karate, and was widely renowned as a formidable karateka (practitioner of karate)....

Discover how one sword can become 10,000 swords. The legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi encouraged his students to have great hidden power. In Samurai Swordsmanship: The Batto, Kenjutsu and Tameshigiri of Eishin-Ryu, expert practitioner Masayuki Shimabukuro and senior student Carl E. Long also encourage readers to discover hidden martial depths...

At JKA/WF headquarters, all instructors are specially trained and licensed to teach. Each of them must train extensively and complete the JKA/WF’s unique specialist instructor training program before receiving certification to fulfill the various functions they are responsible for within the JKA/WF. The JKA/WF offers three basic kinds of qualifications:...

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