Kensei Chronicles

So you just got your 2 nd Kyu or 1 st kyu or even your Shodan and you are asked to teach a class or two for your instructor….what do ...

The Process                 A week or so ago I had a chance to participate in a Kumite Clinic and a few things struck me about Karate t...

 Nokoso: Quitter's Karate de shippai suru yuiitsu no hōhō wa, kunren o teishi suru kotodesu!   I say these words all the time ...

When I teach Karate I often talk about my rules of Karate.   Not the Dojo kun, not the Niju kun or the specific rules of Karate, But my r...

I know Karate…and other scary Asian sounding words! In part two we are looking at technical things like techniques and orders that ar...

I have been thinking a lot lately about the types of people that I have run into in Karate and it brought back and old sociology exercise th...

Japanese history uses “periods” to describe large sections of time. The periods often refer to a ruling emperor or family and it is often de...