On the weekend of July 16, 2016, we held the annual Canadian Ryusei Summer Camp, arranged by Rick Going and Kam Miranbigi in the Calabogie resort area, outside Ottawa. This year, 17 karateka participated: Ryusei member from four Ontario dojo and Sherbrooke in Quebec, as well as Koshin-ha Chito-Ryu members from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The instruction…
We held the 2013 summer camp, with another beautiful weekend. Although we had lots of fun, and learned much, we were challenged by a Friday storm that knocked out the power. So we had no electricity or running water for the entire weekend. Even so, we made do. We bought instant coffee from a…
Richie is a former Barrie Ryusei karate student, who sadly moved to Brampton more than a couple of years ago. I’m happy to say he is keeping up his martial arts training, at a Taekwondo dojo, and he is adding acting and modelling to his resume. In this music video, “Inner Ninja” by Classified with…
Since Naihanchi is being added to the Ryusei curriculum, our Ottawa Ryusei instructors, Kambiz Miranbigi and Rick Going, have created illustrations for the Ryusei technical manual that we are preparing. So far Kam and Rick have produced images for the basics and kata up to black belt. To do this, Kam photographs Rick performing the…
