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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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