Before to start writing this few lines I would like to apologize, I am very late in my Blog update. The last months saw me to face 3 lockdowns and I spent the most of my time to work and train on-line. Today I want to share with you a session we had last month […]
With the covid-related restrictions there are sometimes positive things appearing.Being confined at home or on our area allow us with the help of internet to be closer to Okinawa and train on line with Grand Masters. Saturday 5th of March Kinjo sensei will held a kobudo lesson on the Tonfa basics. Born in 1939, Kinjo […]
As explained in my previous post , Shimabukuro sensei & Didier Lorho were animated a remote session in the World Uechi-Ryu Practitioners Facebook Community . During the 2 hours session Yukinobu Shimabukuro went back first in the most iconic Uechi-Ryu technique ‘Hirate Mawashi Uke’ explaining that for the Sōke branch it is a double block […]
The Facebook Group of World Uechi-Ryu Practitioners is organizing an exceptional on-line event with Shimabukuro sensei Saturday 9th of January at 2:00PM (CET). During this session Shimabukuro sensei and Didier Lorho (French Federal Expert) will be on line to work with you and show the specificities of the Uechi-Ryu of Futenma. Indeed Shimabukuro sensei is […]
Takehiro Gaja (Okinawa Uechi-Ryu 9th degree) was a student of Kanbun & Kanei Uechi. It is unfortunately not so common to get the opportunity to learn from a such Grand Master.Gaja sensei has been recently interviewed by Chris Wilson. During his chat Gaja sensei explains his way of training with Uechi-Ryu & Kobudo; we already […]
In my previous post I presented the Suparenpei learning group.I will continue with this post as Mattson sensei proposed us to go for the 1st Suparenpei International Tournament. Due to the COVID and the contenders spread of around the globe we did it remotely. We started with 60 persons learning the kata and finished with […]
As you know Uechi-Ryu style has only eight katas.The original three were brought from China by Kanbun Uechi when he studied in the Fujian (China) : Sanchin (Core kata of Uechi System) Seisan Sanseiryu The system was later modernized by Kanbun’s son Kanei. He added traditional warm up (junbi undō) and basic standardized (hojo undō) […]
These past weeks I received several emails asking me about my ‘season training load’.Normally I do that by year but the demand is quite correct as we normally start to train in September and finish early July.On my side, my training is a part of my life so I continue to work on my own, […]
From July 11th to 13th, the first European Kobukai event took place in Toulouse area (France). This first European seminar has been held but unfortunately without our Spanish and Portuguese friends. We hope to see them very soon when this pandemic will decrease. It was for French practitionner a back to real training as from […]
Martial Arts community is a world wide community.Our passion has been drastically changed due to the pandemic we are currently facing. A said by Oprah Winfrey : “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”Sharing a passion is sharing a part of your life.That’s exactly what occurred during the […]