Shorinjiryu Koshinkai Karatedo Australia

Black and Brown belt members from the Qld Dojo of Shorinjiryu Koshinkai Karatedo attended the BB Training Clinic on Sat 29th Aug. Sensei Leanne with Sensei Anne plus Courtney and Teagan travelled from Murgon, Sensei Mark from Rocky and Tasshi Tony with Terry from Brisbane, joined Kyoshi Jim and Leisa on Bribie Island for the clinic. It was especially great that Shihan Des was able to fly down from Darwin where he has just settled after a fantastic world wide voyage aboard one of her majesties naval vessels.

The day kicked off with a detailed session on kata Nijushiho no Sai. Kyoshi Jim took one group while Shihan Des took the other group reviewing and discussing the technical aspects of the kata. Of course rivalries in our competitive nature came to the fore as the session finished with a “sai off” with each group demonstrating the kata to see who performed the best. Let’s say it was a draw.

After a quick break, Shihan Des introduced the first of many new self defence techniques derived from kata Bassai. These were new to the group having been developed by Shihan Des and were warmly received and added another positive element to the training.

Kyoshi Jim took the group for Ufuchiku no Jo being a nice change to the Kudaka no Jo kata we have been doing regularly. Shihan Des gave some technical pointers and also helped the group to gain some “air" on the turns in the kata. A really enjoyable Jo kata session.

More self defence techniques from Bassai followed with Shihan Des before we tackled Sai Bo Kumite which certainly made the brain cells work. The Sai Bo kumite is always a joy to do and seeing the smiles all round confirmed this as everyone definitely threw themselves into it, shining as they demonstrated at the end of the session.

Shishiryu no Bo then took centre stage as Kyoshi Jim and Shihan Des put everyone through their paces. Again the technical aspects were highlighted as the group strove to better themselves. Rounding off the day, Shihan Des went through more of the self defence techniques bringing more smiles to everyone and also gave Teagan and Courtney a chance to shine as they showed us a sample of their self defence technique to the group for this session.

All in all a great day of training covering a range of weapons, self defence applications and a sharing of knowledge. A shout out to our interstate Koshinkai family, we missed you but you were there in spirit. As always, a thank you to the Instructors, the people for travelling the big distances and, a special thank you to Shihan Des for flying down from Darwin after not only recently arriving back in Australia but also having just landed in Darwin only a few days ago.

Take care all and prepare for our National Camp in April 2016. It is going to be a big one.