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PUSH YOURSELF: Karate in Daily Life by Tom Shea “Make kiai!!!!!…..Show spirit!!!!….” It echoes through the night… “Again!!!! …..Last ten!!!!!……. Come on, push yourself!!!!! …….Harder, no stop!!!!……” I have heard Master Kazumi Tabata shout such commands for the last 24 years, spurring me on…. “One more time… OK, again, one more time….” OK, one more… I can do it…. sometimes it turns into more of a question… but I do one more… then another… and another… “This must be halfway at least,” I think, abandoning my efforts to keep an empty mind… What’s the drill this time? Front kicks? Punches in horse stance? Kata? No,Read More →

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Robert Plotkin passed his Shodan test at Doshi-Kai in December 2009. He had already passed kata and kumite. The remaining piece was basics, which Sensei Matsuyama wanted him to improve. Here are those improved basics:Read More →