Ryukenkan Dojo - Tauranga New Zealand
"Karate in Paradise" - It's a rough task, but someone has to do it!
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Ryukenkan Dojo - Tauranga New Zealand "Karate in Paradise" - It's a rough task, but someone has to do it!
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Wellington Bo Seminar. 1 September 2007. Renshi travelled to Wellington to share Bo Kihon with the members of the Stokes Valley Dojo and their invited guests. The flight down was excellent providing some fantastic views of Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngaruhoe...
It was much, much warmer in the plane... Part of Friday night was spent initially watching, then celebrating Mr Hart's extensive knowledge of trivia carry his team through to win the Taita RSA Trivia Quiz Challenge. Mr Hart is looking forward to the $50 Bar Tab... Following the Trivia Quiz and dinner, Renshi fielded questions regarding the curriculum and helped to clarify how and why things are done the way they are. The Q&A session ended around midnight. Saturday morning saw the Bo Seminar kick off around 9:30am. The group, comprising 14 students and Instructors, started with some quick warm-ups, then moved on to some basic bunkai from Naihanchi Shodan to further warm up and limber the group prior to beginning the Bo work. Bo Kihon was the order of the day, starting around 10:30, the group worked until 1:30pm on learning the kata sequence, then split up to allow people to work individually and work on retaining the information. Some of the younger seminar participants were eager for a change of direction, so Renshi moved on to teach basic Bo Bunkai - simple tuite using the bo. Many of the applications were taken from the Combat Bo sequences. Renshi explaining one of the Bo Bunkai... Before...
And After...
A small cross-section of seminar participants practicing their Bo Bunkai Once the remainder of the attendees had re-joined the group, Renshi continued to show bunkai, then gave the students the opportunity to translate those same applications through to other weapons and to continue to derive applications based on their new learning. Adam Lang (Head Instructor, Shaolin Ryukyu Kempo) and Nathan McShane (Wellington) discovering bunkai with Sai and Bo. A full cross section of weapons was brought out and applications were translated with great success, proving that the concepts and core principles taught using the Bo can be applied across all weapons. Following that, Renshi went on to show how the same applications could also be applied without a weapon, allowing a person to utilise the same concepts in unarmed combat against an armed attacker. Later in the day, Mark Hollis, a Yudansha from another Ryukyu Organisation in Wellington, dropped in to say hello and was introduced to Renshi who spent some time discussing the differences between Alliance Ryukyu Kempo and the other Ryukyu families in New Zealand. For Mr. Hollis' benefit, Renshi re-covered some of the information from earlier in the day, and finished the seminar with some Ippon Kumite and more Naihanchi Bunkai which allowed Mr Hollis to see the differences between the Ryukyu lineages. At one point in the day Renshi explained the different stages of development that occurred in Ryukyu Kempo as Taika Oyata's understanding was passed on to different students over many decades. By demonstrating techniques taught by Hanshi Geraldi and comparing those with techniques taught during the RKKNZ / Dillman era and finally looking at techniques from the Allliance curriculum, students and Yudansha alike were able to see clearly the different stages that Ryukyu Kempo has been through to develop to what it is today. As always, Mr Hart and his family showed the kind of hospitality which makes our Alliance family so much stronger. When we travel long distances, it's important that we feel as if we are at home with friends. Good food, good lodgings and good company always makes the difference. Everyone left the weekend itching for Spring Camp in October... |
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