This picture was taken shortly after I joined Higashi School of Karate, in 1969, at the age of 12. I’m sitting in front at the far left. Beside me is Betty Tunicliffe and in the back row, far right, is her husband, Ernie (both sadly dead now; two of the nicest people I have known)….
This last weeked, four Ryusei black belts got together to train at Matt Mannerow’s home dojo in Hanover, Ont. Peter Zehr, Matt, Evan Bray and I spent Sunday investigating joint locks and joint lock reversals, resulting in sore wrists and new insights. Evan was also introduced to Rohai kata and will continue to learn this…
To start out the New Year on the right foot, I held a workout on New Year’s morning at 11 am, attended by my students KC, Carminha and Vareena, Matt Mannerow, an instructor with Grey-Bruce Ryusei, and my senior Ted Jungblut. The theory is that if the workout is traumatic enough, that the rest of…
This year, Ryusei Karate-Do Canada will hold its annual summer camp on the weekend of August 25-26. As always, the camp will be hosted by Ottawa Ryusei instructors Rick Going and Kam Miranbigi, on the beautiful country property in the Quebec countryside, owned by Rick and his wife, Basia. After Sakamoto-Sensei came to Canada…
