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Terry Valentino is the guest instructor at the 2012 Ryusei Summer Camp

Terry Valentino is the guest instructor at the 2012 Ryusei Summer Camp

When the Ryusei Summer Camp runs in the Ottawa area on the weekend of August 25, the guest instructor will be Terry Valentino, a 7th Dan with the Koshin-ha Chito-Ryu Karate Federation, who will come to the camp with students from Pittsburgh.  Valentino-Sensei also brings with him a wealth of experience. His bio: With over…

The Zen Mind

 The practice of the Japanese martial arts is often connected to the practice of Zen. From a purely practical point of view, a mind that is not distracted by stray thoughts and is completely focused in the present is a mind well prepared for combat. The martial arts are often practised as a form of…

An Early Form of Henshuho

Here’s an interesting video circa 1970, showing U.S. karateka demonstrating “the 30 moves of Chito-ryu.” Many of these correspond to what we practise today in Chito-ryu and Ryusei karate as Henshuho, which contains 28 techniques. Henshuho is the sequence of self-defence moves created by Tsuyoshi Chitose, the founder of Chito-ryu, containing strikes to vital points,…