Congratulations to Sensei Michel Gosselin on being elected to the SWKKF Senate!
Many of our members will remember Sensei Michel from our 30th Anniversary tournament where he led an exciting National Team workout with Sensei Heather and helped out with an awesome tournament clinic.
Best of luck in your new role with the SWKKF!
Sensei Savanna and Sensei Kevin attended a seminar in Winnipeg by world renowned “practical” karate expert, Sensei Iain Abernethy.
Sensei Iain is an expert in “real world” application of karate techniques as shown to us in our various katas.
The workshop was incredible! Sensei Iain is wealth of martial knowledge. He has intimate knowledge of kata and many ways that we can take the somewhat stylized techniques and use them for defence and protection. He also has great knowledge of the history of karate and the martial arts. He shares both freely and with great zest and interest.
The photo with the large group is the entire group of participants at the seminar. The smaller group photo are the Shintani Federation members who attended (we are missing 4 or 5 out of that pic).
Sensei Iain (@IainAbernethy) is not only a highly skilled martial artist, but also a knowledgeable historian of karate and the development of martial arts. The following are only a few of the verbal tidbits given on day 1 of his seminar.
An actual fight is anything but organized. To be truly successful in a self-defense situation you must train for and embrace the chaos.
Keep your opponent in front you, but don’t be in front of your opponent.
The martial arts were not meant to be used with/against other trained martial artists, but in defense of attack by villains and ruffians. (This is a paraphrase of a teaching by one of the first masters of karate)
More to come.
Congratulations to Sempai Marlee and Sensei Quinn for being selected to the Shintani National Team in both kata AND kumite!
Way to go!
Congratulations to everyone for awesome grading sessions! Everyone who came out had the best karate night of their year! Way to go!
We would also like to wish good luck to Sensei Quinn and Sempai Marlee as they travel to the Western Canadian Karate Championships in Calgary. We know they will do well!!
The Senseis would like to thank everyone for another awesome year of karate! We have some awesome events in the planning stages for next year that we know everyone will be excited about. We would especially like to thank all of the parents who helped their children attend karate classes. Without you, we would be only a fraction of what we are! We also appreciate the many hours of volunteering that was done by everyone in our club this year at the bottle drive, 2 provincial tournaments, our wind-up, and all of the day-to-day help of running our organization!
Keep checking here through the off-season.
See you in the fall!
Just a reminder that the Just for Kicks group is grading tomorrow.
The grading will begin at 6:00 p.m. The karateka are welcome to arrive a little early to warm up and prepare.
Regular Jr/Adult class will be held at 7:30 with their grading and the wind-up next Tuesday.
You cannot be graded if you have fees owing.
See you at the dojo!
… about the effectiveness of karate stances.
Check out these two guys in their zenkutsu dachi!
Congratulations to our members who competed in the Manitoba Open this weekend. This is a WKF style event.
Sensei Quinn – GOLD – Male Black Belt Kumite – Grand Champion Trophy
Sensei Savanna – BRONZE – Kata division
Sempai Marlee – GOLD in kata; GOLD in her kumite division
Way to go!
The Manitoba Provincial Tournament was featured on page 1 and page 2 of this week’s The Observer.
Thanks, again, to everyone who participated in the event!
The spring gradings will be held on the following dates:
Just for Kicks – Tuesday, May 17 – 6:00 to 7:30 pm. Regular Adult/Jr class at 7:30 pm.
Jr/Adults – Tuesday, May 24 – 6:30 with BBQ to follow.
Regular classes will be held next week.
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