Welcome or Yookoso

Yookoso,

This Blog has been put together as part of my travels around the globe to study martial arts. The first part of my blog and the contents of it will be focused on the study of the Japanese arts. So I am travelling to Japan on 31st May 2010 to start my journey.
I am a strong believer that all forms of martail arts have their strong and weak points. As many great masters will tell you, to understand the way of your enemy (opponent) is to defeat them.
I take no side with any one martial art, but I do believe that a person must study a system or style to it's fullest to gain a greater understanding before the weakness or strengths can be identerfied.
Therefore I have devoted my lift to the martial arts.

Japanese Tip list.

Japanese Tip list



I want people from all over the place to help with this so if you have been to Japan and have a good tip let me know. Send the Tip to my Email address then I can post it. makiofska@gmail.com

Also if you know of some where cool to go that is also welcome, send them in.





Ok I have three tips and thats from the frist week. So by the end we should have loads.



Tip 1. Don't take lighters on the planes in Japane. Not cool.



Tip 2. Do take gifts they have gone down a strom. This must have been the best tip yet.



Tip 3. If your going to use the train in Toky and or buses get a PassMo card. Its like the English Oyster card. Don't worry if you can't speak Japanese all of the ticket machine can be changed to english. Sweet.

Tip4. Don't use the train if you can help it between 6:00pm and 8:00pm so meany such small trains. Its not the faced they just cram as meany people on as they can but every one needs to be doing something, PSP, reading a book or news paper. I almost punshed him.

Keep them coming

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Karate Do to Honbu.

Ahhhhhhhh


I have been super lucky I have been allowed to train with the JKA for free and as much as I like. Yukosan took me to a Dojo at Akabana. We took the bus and the walked to a local high school. (The buses are dead easy, they run a lot and you can use your Passmo card on them. Any trip 200yen. (if you don't know what a Passmo card is check out the TopTip list.))She then told Nakasensei that I was only in Japan for a month. He said I could train for free and as much as I liked. NakaSensei Is Karatedo. He is the next in line to run the Honbu and the JKA. He is a very nice man and just watching him has given me a new spin on martial arts. From how to train to how to teach the guys at Redhill. I have collected some notes and can't wait to get back.

I have always thought about how the hole body should be used in every move in karate. Every time a Japanese master come to england and would talk about using you hole body to move and carrie out technecs. I would think it was some sort of secret. Its no secret westen people for the most find it hard and just don't get it. (O I was just going to delet this hole paragraph and start again but I have chosen not to as it shows you what I am talking about. As English or westen people most of us have lost the ties with are bodys, spirit and mind.) Every move or technec in Karate use every part of the body, mind and sprit. (Not just the body as i wrote before.)The key is not to look at the movement of the body as step. This makes use one side. The true key is to move reactively using effective, powerful, quick and emotive movements. I.e. You can't run a list throw your head. Setp, punch, breath and then kamae so on. you should use feeling. The man was right. Bruce Lee hit the nail on the head. Feel emotion content or you will mess all the heavenly glory. Sorry Bruce but I couldn't find any thing better.
If I go on I won't have any thing to share when I get back so I will stop at that. I will say that every part of the Japanese peoples life sets them up to be great master I are eyes. As people in a hole onesidedness is not in there way of life.

O one last thing what is the most important thing to remember when you are making a cup?
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