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Fight Clinic hosted by Penticton West
Kyokushin Karate Club:
Osu Fellow Instructors and Students:
This weekend, Feb 11 and 12, 2011, I
hosted a fight clinic which was friday
evening
for 1.5 hours and saturday afternoon for
3 hours.
The guest instructor was Sensei Tatsuji
Nakamura from Vancouver.
I targeted all of the clubs in the
Okanagan and tried to recruit anyone who
wanted
to learn some fighting techniques from a
world class instructor.
I was also in contact with Sempai Keith
Klughart from Nelson and he assured me
he
was going to be in attendance and would
bring some students with him.
Needless to say I was still nervous as I
didn't want to go through all of this
work to bring
Sensei Tats to Penticton to just teach a
few of my students.
When it got closer to 7 o'clock Friday
night, my heart was racing.
To my pleasant surprise when I arrived
at our training hall there were people
waiting to get in.
The end result was approximately 45
students in attendance Friday night.
Sensei Lyle Zimmerman from the Keremeos
dojo with his students,
Sempai Mike Riplinger from the Oliver
dojo with his students,
and even Sempai Cliff Craske was there
from the Vernon dojo and he brought a
student with him.
The weekend went well and I thought it
was a huge success.
Sensei Tats' classes were awesome.
He trained us hard but also gave us good
sound instruction and made for a very
educational weekend of fight techniques
and fight training.
In conclusion I was very happy with the
seminar.
I think our organization should look at
doing more of these types of activities.
Not everyone can make it to sanctioned
events or camps.
I believe Kyokushin Karate in western
Canada has such a vast resource pool to
utilize.
I do not think we are using it to it's
capabilities.
Osu Sempai Brent Parker
Penticton West Kyokushin Karate Club
Sensei Tats' review:
Fight Seminar in Penticton
I was recently invited by Sempai Brent
and his dojo to hold a training
seminar in Penticton, BC.
When I arrived at their dojo on
Friday, February 11, I saw over forty
students and several black belts
participating from Penticton, Oliver,
Vernon, Keremeos, Lumby and Nelson.
The class focused on kihon, physical
conditioning, step works and defensive
strategies. Although most of the stuff
that I introduced in the class was not
familiar to the participants, they
sweated hard and did their best to
follow and learn the new training
routines.
After the good 1.5 hours training,
Sempai Brent took us to a local
restaurant. We had great food and
drinks and, of course, a lot of fun.
It's so good to be part of the
Kyokushin family.
Next day we began training at noon. We
spent the first hour to review the
techniques we practiced last night.
Then, we developed intensity from
there and started using kicking pads.
Eight different combinations were
introduced in order to have the
participants come to better
understanding about development of
their own Kumite skills. Each
combination was repeated 10-20 times,
and by the time we finished the last
one, our dogi was soaked in sweat.
Then, we spend the last hour for
sparring to finish up the three-hour
class.
As far as I know, this seminar was the
first of its kind where the fighting
technique stayed as a focal point
throughout a weekend. From the
comments we received after the last
class, I think that the seminar was
well-received by all.
Finally, I would like to thank IKOK-C
for letting us hold the event.
A special thanks goes to Sempai Brent
and all the participants for making
the seminar possible.
I enjoyed myself very much in teaching
and training with them. Thank you.
Osu.
Tats Nakamura
Vancouver Kyokushin Karate
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