Monthly Archives: March 2013

Bunkai and Storytime with Hanshi Perry

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Hanshi Perry and I after class Last night was Hanshi Doug Perry’s visit to our dojo, and he taught a kobudo class, followed by a karate class. I didn’t attend the kobudo session, but I was very eager to get into the karate session. In the class, we focused on oyo bunkai (personal applications of kata) for a couple Pinan […]

Olympic Karate 8

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The logo for the campaign to get karate into the 2020 Olympic Games As most karateka already know, the WKF (World Karate Federation) is making a push to get karate into the 2020 Olympic Games. Specifics haven’t been ironed out, yet, but the marketing campaign is already underway, the Bluehat Marketing has already been hired to start the marketing process […]