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By now most of our readers know that TKRI is affiliated with Harry Cook’s Seijinkai Karate-do Association. Below is a link to an interview with Harry that Shaun Banfield conducted and published on the Shotokan Way e-magazine.
Excerpt:
SB) Of course, you also became an English teacher in Japan. Did you get time to train at many of the major dojos, and how would you describe training in the ‘heartland’?
(HC) My plan originally was to train at the JKA, but Terry O’Neill told me to go and see Higaonna. Once I had seen him I didn’t feel the need to bother with any of the others. I did train at Kanazawa sensei’s dojo every now and then but to be honest they were doing basically the same things I had been doing in the UK. I dabbled with a bit of sword and jo but the bulk of my training was at the Yoyogi Shurenkai dojo of Higaonna sensei. In most dojos training physically demanding, and some instructors are without any doubt racist bullies; they take advantage of foreign students and batter them while claiming they are teaching them budo. It is nonsense. I stress that this was a minority. Higaonna sensei was never like that; we got bashed yes, but everyone did, it was a natural part of the training.
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When?
Friday June 26, Saturday June 27, and Sunday June 28, 2009
Where?
Ferrum Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Three days of training and fellowship at the scenic and secluded mountainside Kitterman Farm and TKRI-VA headquarters in Ferrum, VA
Who?
Instruction by Harry Cook (Seijinkai/ISOK), Elmar Schmeisser (ISOK), and yours truly (TKRI/ Seijinkai).
With supplemental instruction provided by:
David Campbell–TKRI-VA Chief Instructor
Randy Simpson–Ferrum College Chief Instructor
Participation is not limited to TKRI, Seijinkai, or ISOK affiliates.
Register today (all the cool kids will be there).
For more information and a schedule of events for the weekend click here.
Karate Factoid
Fans of cheesy Hollywood movies may be interested to know that the inspiration for the movie “The Last Samurai” ( starring Tom Cruise) was Saigo Takamori. Saigo Takamori was the grandfather of the first president of the JKA, Saigo Kichinosuke.
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