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IN HONOUR
OF AKAMINE EISUKE SENSEI
AN OPEN
TRADITIONAL KARATE AND KOBUDO
INVITATIONAL
TOURNAMENT
SPONSORED
BY SENSEI MARTIN NICHOLSON, 4th DAN
To give you a brief history
of recent Okinawan kobudo, Taira Shinken (1897-1970) was
born Maezato Shinken, and at an early age, as was often
the custom, he was given up for adoption. Later in life,
however, he took on his mother's maiden name of Taira.
In 1922, he met a man who
was to have an impact on his future as a martial artist,
that person was the Founder of Shotokan Karate, Sensei
Gichin Funakoshi. As a fate would have it, after studying
karate for about eight years, Taira Shinken met the man
who was responsible for his introduction to Ryukyu
Kobudo, Sensei Yabiku Moden. It was during this period of
time that he learnt the art of the bo, sai, nunchaku,
tonfa and eku.
After man years of study,
Taira Shinken in 1955 established the Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon
Shinko Kai, otherwise known as the Ancient Weapons
Promotion and Preservation Society. Then upon his death
in 1970, his most senior student, Akamine Eisuke Sensei (1925-1999)
inherited the leadership of the Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon
Shinko Kai.
In 1982, Hidemi Tamayose Sensei, began studying
directly under Akamine Sensei at the Hozon Shinko Kai
Hombu Dojo. As one of the senior students Tamayose Sensei
was ranked Nana Dan, 7th Dan, by Akamine Sensei and
Hatchi, 8th Dan, by the Okinawa Ken Karate Do Rengo Kai,
and he served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors
until the death of Akamine Sensei in 1999.
On May 22, 1999, Tamayose
Sensei, in order to perpetuate Ryukyu Kobudo in the
manner he had been taught by Akamine Sensei, formed the
Ryukyu Kobudo Tesshinkan.
Wishing to honour the
memory of Akamine Eisuke Sensei, one of Tamayose Sensei's
senior students in the art of kobudo Sensei Martin
Nicholson of Parksville, B.C. this year hosted the 1st
Annual Open Traditional Karate and Kobudo Invitational
Tournament, specifically for the promotion and
preservation of the values of traditional karate and
kobudo.
A DAY OF
CELEBRATION
The tournament started
promptly at 10 am with five rings running at the same
time.
Juniors
first
The first groups to compete
were the juniors, seen here are the novice and
intermidiate kata divisions and all the kids did very
well.
Paying
close attention
Many of the adult kyu belts
who were to compete later in the day took the time to
watch the kids events up close and they offered their
support and encouragement to all the competitiors. The
judging was as it should be was very professional and
very impartial and all of the participants regardless of
whether they were from a local dojo or from out of town
feltthey had been fairly treated.
Constant
action
Cathy Douglas of Victoria,
taking part in her first tournament is seen here on the
left competing in the women's intermediate sparring
division, and despite as she says "a bad case of
nerves" Cathy aquited herself very well.
And the
winner is
When it was all said and
done Cathy took home the silver medal in this event
Kata was
next
Cathy Douglas seen her
performing the kata Heian Yondan placed a very
respectable fourth in her division.
Roberta in
action
Caught in transition
between moves in a very good performance of the kata
Heian Nidan, Roberta Hutchinson was also in her very
first competition and even though as a 7th kyu she was
one of the junior ranking students in her divison Roberta
still managed to place fourth overall.
The brown
belt division
In a very strong field of
competitiors in the women's brown belt division Alaine
Reimer showed good form while performing the Empi, as a
senior kyu belt in our dojo Alaine is looking forward to
grading for her Shodan in the not to distant future.kata
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- The spirit
of karate
- Both Alaine and Roberta
showed excellent spirit and went home with a renewed
sense of accomplishment and appreciation for all that the
art of karate has to offer to those who seek to learn and
grow as they walk it's path.
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- Black belt
weapons kata
- In one of the final events
of the day Sensei Dan Holland acted as the Chief Judge in
the junior black belt division which was very
entertaining indeed with a large group of equally matched
competitiors - in fact the whole tournament saw very
close scoring in all age catagories and divisions.
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- THANK YOU
SENSEI NICHOLSON !!
- On behalf
of all the Sensei's and students from Victoria, B.C. who
took part in this event,
- our sincere
thanks to Sensei Nicholson, and all his students, for an
excellent tournament.
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- Part the
clouds - see the way.
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- "The
objective of kobudo is to contribute to the evolution
- of the
human spirit through physical and mental training."
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