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5 elements of Combat

2012-01-25T12:24:00.003Z

The fundamental 5 elements of Combat. Ne-waza - Groundwork, grappling Nage-waza - Throwing techniques Atemi-waza - Vital point striking Shime-waza - Choking techniques Kansetsu-waza - Joint Locking Techniques

'The movement of the Universe is in your hips and feet... the mind of Man is in your hands'.

2011-10-25T08:31:00.000+01:00

A gift from sensei Alan Ruddock actual student of O'Sensei

Don't Stop

2011-06-03T11:27:00.000+01:00

Jumbi Undo

2011-02-18T17:37:00.000Z

Fight Club Clips 1 - 6

2011-02-15T17:11:00.000Z

No Power 3 Video clip

2011-02-05T20:48:00.000Z

Once on YouTube take a look at some of my clips.

Self Protection Laws

2011-01-24T09:27:00.000Z

Try this page (link above) as a reference point for knowing your rights within the UK laws for Self Protection / Defence

Twitter @akaobikenobi

2011-01-23T13:56:00.000Z

Follow me on Twitter

Iain Abernethy

2011-01-22T12:54:00.000Z

I would strongly recommend any serious martial artist reading his articles and listening to his Podcasts, plus Martial Arts Map Audio Book.

Training with a Shotokan Master

2010-10-20T21:01:00.000+01:00

Photo taken after a 5 hour training session conducted by Dave Hazard Sensei 7th Dan.

YOUTUBE FIRST!! Ground KNIFE FIGHTING by Luke Holloway

2010-08-07T07:39:00.000+01:00

I recommend that anybody interested in ground fighting & MMA give this clip some study time.

Gdansk 2010

2010-06-15T13:53:00.000+01:00

Training with The Masters

2010-06-15T13:51:00.000+01:00

Taken at our Uk-karate dojo in Cobham Surrey

PATRICK McCARTHY COURSE Sponsored by CYBERBUDO

2010-06-07T15:13:00.000+01:00

Sacred Hearts Catholic “Church Hall” Downside Bridge Road Cobham, Surrey KT11 3, UK

TIMES: Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th June 19.00 – 22.00 Please be there for a prompt Start. Car Parking is available onsite.

Martial arts style, rank, experience, or affiliation need not be a barrier to enjoying this seminar.
Patrick McCarthy 8th dan Hanshi, historian, author, founder of the International Ryukyu Karate Research Society, and Koryu Uchinadi martial art.
You can see more details at www.koryu-uchinadi.com
Teaching practical applications to Karate kata linked together to make 2-person drills responsive in a gradually resistant learning environment.

BOTH COURSES WILL BE DIFFERENT IN CONTENT WITH A DEFINITIVE Q & A SESSION

COST: £25 FOR EACH 3HR SESSION OR £40 FOR BOTH DAYS
ALL CYBERBUDO MEMBERS AND/OR AFFILIATES £15 FOR EACH 3 HR SESSION OR £25 FOR BOTH DAYS

Any quires Call Alan 07957421371 or Terry 07708888880

CONDITIONS: CASH ON THE DAY (NO CARDS ACCEPTED) AND WE WOULD ASK YOU TO PRE-BOOK BY NOTIFYING US BY E-MAIL

Tactical over Technical

2010-05-28T19:44:00.000+01:00

Tactical over technical with functionality over form........effort for effect not affect.......!

Ippon

2010-05-18T21:28:00.000+01:00

The Old Way Karate Seminar

2010-05-17T17:59:00.000+01:00

New Friends...........

Wroclaw Poland April 2010

2010-04-14T21:10:00.003+01:00

Members of Karate-Do International, Karate-Jutsu International, Aikido International under the banner of Cyberbudo and Terry Wingrove train in Poland.

I'm on the right..........:)

Light Knife

2010-04-09T03:21:00.003+01:00

Hanshi TINO CEBERANO

2010-03-26T22:39:00.002Z

Hanshi TINO CEBERANO

9th dan GOJU KARATE-DO

Master of PHILIPPINE ARNIS

Hanshi Tino Ceberano 9th Dan Karate is also warmly known as the father of martial arts in Australia. His years of experience to the martial arts have provided him the knowledge that has written him into the martial arts history books. His expertise and tutelage is now available to you via the Kenshusei program. It is guaranteed that you will be in awe of the many stories that Hanshi Ceberano will share with you. His expertise as a trainer and lecturer (and nationally recognised senior trainer and assessor for the martial arts training package) will make your learning experience enjoyable, motivating, stimulating and obove all be credited towards your nationally recognised qualification. The following brief biography of Hanshi's life will give you a better understanding of the man himself.

Tino Ceberano was born and raised in Hawaii on the island of Kauai. Of Phillipino-Spanish decent, his father was a Phillipino migrant who came to Hawaii as a professional boxer who also acquired the skills of Phillipino stick fighting when he settled in Hawaii.

In Hawaii, it wasn't uncommon for everyone to be involved in fights as a youngster and most boys had some basic martial arts experience. In the pre-war days, boxing was a popular pass-time on the island with martial arts such as Jujitsu, Kung Fu, Karate, knife and stick fighting also learnt at a young age.
Martial arts simply existed in Hawaii and the predominant nationalities of the time; Portugese, Chinese, Phillipino, Hawaiin, Puerto Rican, and Japanese, all became closer in the way that they were constantly exchanging ideas and learning pieces from different styles. There were no set martial arts organisations in Hawaii. People basically learnt the arts by watching someone fight or by getting into a fight themselves. People eventually learnt that each art was associated with a particular group and the multicultural existence in Hawaii highlighted what became the forerunner of Western Martial Arts even before Karate was introduced to mainland America.

A young Tino and his father trained together in Kempo, which was the word commonly used instead of Karate. The Chinese would refer to Shorin Kempo as what Shaolin Kempo was. The Okinawans referred to Okinawa-te instead of Karate.
Kempo was actually introduced to Tino by his neighbour, who was a returned soldier from the Korean campaign. He would gather up a group of kids ranging between twelve and seventeen years old and they would train after school and really get stuck into each other."

It wasn't until 1959, when as a 17 year old joining the Marines, that Tino learnt to value his martial arts. At this time he remembers a sweeping change in people's perception of the martial arts right across Hawaii.
Goju-Kai started in Hawaii in 1958. Kyokushin-kai was slightly before that and Shotokan was at about the same time. All before that there was Kempo and Okinawa-te but it wasn't so serious. Then all of a sudden something changed. They began to understand the values of the arts and became a lot more fine tuned about how they should be practised and the classes began to be organized.

Anton Navas was Tino's most revered teacher who really took him by the hand and showed him what the true meaning of the arts was all about from 1959 until 1966.
Joining the Marines changed Tino's life immensely. From living as an islander to being part of the armed forces elite and living much more a Western life-style was almost a cultural shock for him.
As part of the Fleet Marine Force Pacific, he was a specialist in the field of teaching armed and unarmed combat with a background of reconnaissance for which his job was to be on call to engage the enemy or secure information. The Force also served as the protection squad for the elite officers.

Tino also participated in the Fleet Marine Force Pacific Drum and Bugle Team marching squad where he played the bugle. It was with the bugle team that Tino first came to Australia which he toured in 1962 both playing the bugle and exchanging ideas and practice on combative warfare which was part of a highly confidential military operation at the time. The team eventually finished up in Okinawa for four months and it was on his first trip to Tokyo that Tino met up with the legendary founder of Goju-Kai, Gogen Yamaguchi, he studied under him and became a top student.

In 1966, Tino arrived in Australia with his family and instantly initiated moves to introduce the relatively unknown world of Karate to the continent.
Tino's martial arts style was well received here. Judo at the time was the mainstay martial art and it was everywhere and was everyone's ideal of a fighting technology. At the time, Karate was still nonexistent. Tino performed a demonstration at a local Judo club which was so well received he was asked to regularly perform demonstrations at all of the Judo clubs.

From here the popularity of Karate just mushroomed. He would have as many as 60-100 people in a class.
The style he taught was very hard. His reasoning for this was that at the time, people wouldn't really take on the likes of the ritualistic type of regimented training involving a lot of repetitions. So he gave them exercise as well which either made them or broke them and that was to sort out the mentally and physically strong from the weak. This hard style proved something as well. It made the name associated with the school a strong one and the school gained a high standing and became a strong foundation for what martial arts was going to be like in the future.

The Oldest Trick in the Book Works

2010-03-20T15:22:00.003Z

First in Karatejutsu

2010-03-18T13:28:00.002Z

• First in Karatejutsu there is the Science and Physical Principles inherent to life that have to be accounted for at all extremes.

• Second there has to be an account of individual athleticism, ability and comprehension that when assimilated with the Science gives Karatejutsu an appreciation justified and calculated by unique aesthetic impression and artistic appliance by improvisation & interpretation.

• Thirdly there is a concept of self defence that has to be applied that is infinitely diverse by the nature or purpose of the effort and effect, ultimately to disrupt, damage or destroy in preservation of one’s self or family.

Interpretations of Watashi no Karatejutsu

2010-03-18T11:00:00.002Z

My Interpretations of Watashi no Karatejutsu Motobu Choki (1870 – 1944) Karatejutsu has a primary function of self defence to incapacitate an attacker with one action (strike, blow, grab or kick).

If Kata was to be understood correctly, each section of technique would need to be decisive in order to truly represent the maxim of one blow (action) one kill (disable, maim, kill). The form, the sequence, the embellished breath & movements would all become superfluous to an action of effort if an effect of disable, maim, kill was the intention.

The plethora of postures we see in Kata are no more that transitional snapshots, isolated in the mind as significant to a pose or static intersection where flow has been lost by the practitioner.

A dynamic “Hachimonji Datchi” giving equilibrium to balance or stability with mobility in a moving stillness, is probably the ideal for manoeuvrability. To practice being static or be motionless is to be dead or very close to death.

Dunoon Tour Jutsu TW 2010

2010-03-15T15:08:00.002Z

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/akaobikinobi888/McJimmySClanDunoon#

Link to Picasa site from Main Title

I like this for a Club Membership Disclaimer

2010-03-12T10:22:00.000Z

Condition of Participation Disclaimer

1. I acknowledge that I have read the definitions below. 2. I hereby acknowledge that my entry and/or participation in the seminar carries with it significant risk of personal injury. 3. Therefore, I for myself and the Releasors hereby relinquish, release and/or waive any action against the Releasees for any personal injury sustained by me arising out of and/or in the course of the seminar whether as a result of any disregard and/or technical breach of the rules of the seminar or otherwise. 4. In addition, in the event of any action being commenced, the Releasors and myself hereby indemnify the Releasees against any cost and damages arising from or connected therewith.

Definitions

a) “Personal Injury” has its ordinary English meaning and includes any injury for which a person might be awarded General Damages and/or Special Damages at Common Law. b) “The Releasors” means by family, dependants, heirs, executors and/or assigns any person or persons claiming through them. c) “Releasees” means any corporation, association or other body and/or person or persons jointly and/or severally and whether servants or agents of any of the aforementioned or otherwise where any such corporation, other body or individual is associated with the promotion or conduct of the seminar and includes Karate Students, competitors , instructors, and observers or members of the audience. d) “Any Action” means any claim, right and/or cause of action for damages at Common Law or pursuant to any statute.

3 more video clips of our class

2010-03-11T23:09:00.002Z

http://www.youtube.com/user/ap247

Krakow Jutsu TW Tour 2010

2010-03-09T09:51:00.002Z

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/akaobikinobi888/JutsuTWKrakowPoland2010#

Jutsu TW Hungary Tour March 2010

2010-03-09T09:44:00.003Z

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/akaobikinobi888/HungaryJutsuTWTour#

Leeds Jutsu TW Course 2010

2010-02-22T22:28:00.002Z

http://picasaweb.google.com/akaobikinobi888

Various Techniques in Easy Flow Mode

2010-02-19T07:54:00.007Z

I'm sure some people will cringe at some of the missed opportunities or the path I've chosen. Another video clip taken again would probably be different if not slightly the same. I could change the strikes to grips or combinations of both. The targets can break balance or bone depending how and what I apply, am I defending or attacking? so many variables.

Click to title link to see the latest clip. Damn Blogger wont upload video...

Distance or Proximity of Engagement

2010-02-13T08:54:00.002Z

It has been noticed that my distance to my Uke during the video clips is very distant. Quite true! No Excuses other than for ease of demonstration. "Range and Intensity" consider that as my range decreases my intensity increases ? "Range and Intensity" used in another context is the key to improving movement. Train both attributes of motion, whether it be by muscle, tendon or ligament or all three and you improve the the action efficiency and effect of the effort.

Variations on a theme

2010-02-11T23:04:00.006Z

As the year progresses I will be adding more small video clips to this page. As a reminder for our club and also to show simple effective practice techniques to anybody interested. Not to be confused with anything other than my attempt to show ways for individual techniques to come alive. The techniques are not new or exclusive to anybody. I hope to show simplicity rather than complexity. I use YouTube as the catalyst for the clips because I only have to upload them once and anybody can find and view them. In time a collection will be available on DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/ap247

Clips 6 7 8 or all the clips available.

It's all in the mind! Once you can become comfortable moving the hands and legs in close quarter, the permutations and options are infinite. Yes there are only so many ways to move the body but it's like a 4 or 5 digit code, it's the sequence you dictate. Check out the YouTube clips, not meant to teach or preach, they are there to share ideas.

Hand Drills 3

2010-02-05T15:43:00.005Z

We have stuck to hand drills this week because of the immense diversity of probability involved. Not the hum drum non contact sport stuff but nasty effective and efficient syncopation involving the complete hand elbow head arsenal at such close range. Once in range all hell lets loose, so fast and devistating with practice. Observe the YouTube clips and comment if you want.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ap247

Look at it this way: I have been working on those drills for 15 years. If a tennis player scores an ace, people think oooooh! If 2 players rally for 15-20 shots, people thing how good the both are. It takes years of practice and skill to do both. An ace is good but not always practical, to gain a point in a few moves is good too but to demonstrate a complete repertoire of play skills is a higher skill and proportionately more difficult to practice as nothing is set in play. Developing technique is one thing, developing a system of muscle memory and response stimulation during natural and un-natural response within time frame and space available takes years of practice. Technique is dimensional true but so is chaos and simplicity.

My Training

2010-01-31T09:48:00.007Z

A picture tells a thousand stories! Both people in the photo above are extremely experienced in martial arts technique. One of them much older and ever so slightly more experienced.

The point to this blog entry is this: Everybody who trains in martial arts needs to continually develop themselves. You can only do this by being continually involved with a strategy of self development. Pretty obvious you might say. Not to so many who cocoon themselves within a stagnant repetitious training regime, or style confinement? The old saying “you should get out more” is so true. One of my Japanese Sensei’s told me that at least once a week I should train with someone with more experience and practical ability than myself. I have always looked upon this advice as good advice and true in practice, although difficult at times.

The same techniques practiced over and over again, not repetitiously as such but with ever increasing perspective and situation consideration. It’s possible to climb different mountains with the same piece of rope but never in the same way! We need to examine how efficient and effective technique is achieved, diversely.

One of my Sensei’s tells me he’s a guide not an instructor as such. He will show me a series of metaphoric dots, how and when I recognise these dots is one thing, how I perceive them and how I join them up and apply them is another. If he prescribes everything in a rote fashion I may get something from the experience, his way....perhaps but not necessarily mine.

I didn't physically exert myself at the training session the above photo was taken, although I did put my mind in gear. From observation I deduced that individually my techniques in certain circumstances were adequate for level one. More importantly I observed ways how to improve them to a level two. Level two being almost impossible to apply without effective engagement. This can only be done in a reciprocal way with somebody who understands pain and wants to understand how more efficiently to inflict it.

My training is not for the faint hearted or people afraid of pain. No good for an immature mind where their only experience of violence is a dancing class, Playstation game or Tom & Jerry cartoon battle antics.

Hand Drill 2

2010-01-28T22:31:00.005Z

So hard to get the right balance of attack speed and defence coordinated because the attack if struck correctly will stop the action. Then the drill will be too short. There is much compliance involved leaving the prime effect lost. However by syncopating the strikes with control the potential of each action can be analysed.

Hand Speed & Timing Class 2 2010 with vid clip

2010-01-21T22:32:00.002Z

Class 2 of 2010. Control of the centre line, stop, block, evade...........outside right inside right, inside left outside left & reversed sequence?? It's sort of syncopated chaos..........think table tennis rally? It can be very short and abrupt finish or an intensely prolonged duration. It is chaos in movement but with some predictability. Fast hand drills have to have a sense of reality and risk, no two should be the same although the object is to do the same thing. The speed and intensity coupled with fluidity is one thing, the damage control is acute in an explosive sense, transmission is on hold to comply with reciprocation. Add too much and becomes "Just a drill" leave out intensity and fluidity and it becomes "Just a drill"..................food for thought! We are just scratching the surface.

Hand Drill

2010-01-21T22:04:00.003Z

This is a small glimpse of an inside hand drill, done at a more realistic speed it ends abruptly as it slips out of predictable syncopation. Obviously the nerves are not struck with technique on defence or the counter strikes too disabling to allow continuance. I'll be working on the camera technique.

1st Class of 2010

2010-01-14T23:20:00.004Z

It's been a cold start to the year! Tonight, due to extreme weather conditions, being the 1st class of 2010. Thanks to those in the class. It was back to basics in a way...........upon which everything else has it's foundations. We did some drills and virtual karate-jutsu for warm ups. Followed by developing from prescribed tried and tested means, defences against straight jabs and hooking punches. The class evolved around the our efforts to produce effective technique primarily for defence and attack of the upper body and head. Much more work is needed in this area. We will be building on the foundations.

My Karate-Jutsu

2010-01-06T14:10:00.005Z

My Karate-jutsu Association’s direction and theme for 2010 is to pass on as much information of practical Karate-jutsu and associated applications as possible. Pass on historical conjecture, pragmatism or my own personal applications and observations of significant tried and tested technique? Which would be most appreciated by my students or teachers? I think to call on my own research, findings and resources would be easier to justify and apply through a recollection of my own reference, knowledge and ability. Not to try to emulate or impersonate the best of my inspiration sources.

YouTube is saturated with information and research material from the who’s who and what’s what of Masters. Information which will probably lead the confused to a state of even more confusion. I have been training and practicing martial arts for over 40 years, I’m still very much a novice compared to some but I’m still very much hands on in the dojo, on the street and in the archives of information. I do have a slight aversion to anybody that stereo types me or has disregard of my sentient thinking.

Working on my unverified theory that 10% of the people in the world are left handed, 10% don’t respond to pain, 10% are Gay and 90% of Martial Arts practice, technique and tradition is prescribed, embellished and or, not fit for the definitive purpose of drastic self defence, I put pen to paper. At best organisational Martial Arts are a very good regime of fitness, discipline, hypothetical study of combat technique and recreational pursuit.

I feel violence has a very serious role to play when embarking on an investigation into the abyss that is Self Defence and effective Martial Arts, dynamics, tactics and applications thereof, infinite by specific or adequate comprehension. Violence can be manifested by a state of mind, through physical exhibition or extremes of both in varying proportions. It can be instantaneously stimulated or calculated and articulated. Absolutely required for self defence Martial Arts is an appreciation and experience of the consequences of violence for all circumstances. Accompanying these attributes will be a means and an advantage maybe, by which to avoid confrontational violence.

Athleticism, fitness, physical ability, state of mind, preparation, knowledge, demonstration and understanding of skills is without doubt vital and any essential, serious consideration when contemplating a study of the Martial Arts. I personally feel they are subjective rather than objective. Over the years I have been trained by and studied a plethora of teachers and students. I have come to the conclusion that from the broad spectrum of Martial Arts that my limited considerations have assimilated so far, are particular to me. To that extent I want to, do and will excise my right to express an opinion of training in the Martial Arts. I do not imply I am right in my practice or thinking, my preference rather to share it, for whatever it’s worth to anybody else.

Specifically this year I’m going to focus my attention on who and what has had the greatest influence on what I am practicing today. Hopefully pass on the data to whoever wants it for their own studies. From day one I have been heavily influenced by a number of people I’ve trained with. All important to me and essential for the understanding I have today. However I have to refer to Sir Isaac Newton’s Three Laws of Motion for help in giving this article impetus and direction.

“Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it”.

So what objects in the Martial Arts fraternity would give one a change of direction? Dave Hazard, Steve Morris, Bruce Miller, Patrick McCarthy and Terry Wingrove…………….? For me without doubt! I reckon I can recruit enough theory and application from my combined experiences with these guys to give a reasonable account of “myself as a Martial Artist”. Probably to their dismay and denial but who gives a shit at the end of the day?

“The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector”.

This example is the most obscure and most difficult to equate to this article but it is significant to my understanding of how physics and science are key to a comprehension of transmission of power. This is a key principle in Martial Arts and I don’t want to compare people or persons as to effectiveness. Anatomically Steve Morris and Terry Wingrove have different applications as they are different people. However I did pick those as examples as they are the most experienced in “Martial Arts, Self Defence and Combat”. Although I personally think Steve Morris, Terry Wingrove, Dave Hazard, Bruce Miller and Patrick McCarthy all have outstanding knowledge and ability as stand alone persona, of transmission or otherwise effective means by which to move things, or the mind.

“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”

This being a most profound statement as well as in my mind, the most significant Law. It has no equal or comparison other than its own anti entity (one’s own comprehension of it).
I hope this article will stimulate or aggravate (whatever) more than a few minds into pursuing a furtherance of their understanding of how the teach, guide, learn, practice or train students of Martial Arts and Self Defence. After all an anatomical technique is an anatomical technique, its principle and variations thereof and how it’s applied are subjective, not necessarily prescribed adequately for all anatomical considerations. This applies to prescribed form too!

New Year 2010

2010-01-01T09:21:00.002Z

One of my new Years resolutions is to update my blog more frequently. Let people know what's going on around me. I think the thing to do more of in 2010 is to get out more. Stimulate idea's, share knowledge and train. Earn your luck and may you get lots of it.

Some of our fight Club members

2009-05-24T20:22:00.000+01:00

Vienna May 2009 Cyberbudo on Tour

2009-05-18T20:38:00.000+01:00

The Team in Poland

2009-04-12T12:46:00.000+01:00

Taken in 1967 my class at school

2009-04-12T10:24:00.000+01:00

The WKF statute 21.9 RIP EKF

2009-04-11T10:34:00.003+01:00

The EKF always in it only the depth varies

Congratulations Ronnie Colwell 9th Dan

2009-02-18T19:25:00.003Z

Click on the title to link to Info

Master Tsuchiya & I in Japan 2008

2009-02-16T14:18:00.000Z

Snowed in today

2009-02-02T06:50:00.000Z

Sheerwater is snowed in 2/2/09

Katie Louise 4 Hrs Old

2009-01-30T11:35:00.000Z

I love this picture, I took it doing 300 Km per hour

2008-12-21T14:49:00.001Z

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

2008-12-19T18:53:00.002Z

This year and last have been the most eventful I've had in nearly 40 years of Martial Arts. The two most important events were the 2007 Budosai at Bisham Abbey and Two weeks in Japan 2008, all courtesy of Cyberbudo. Other trips included Germany, Poland, Spain, Portugal many times, many places in England.

I have invested heavily and supported 100% of Terry Wingrove's initiatives to bring Karate-Jutsu to the attention of the 1000's of Karate-ka who practice the over organisationalised formats of recreational, sport and leisure Karate.

This Blog represents my views on events, occasions and news.

A personal thank you from me, Alan Platt to Terry Wingrove and all my friends at Cyberbudo.

Cyberbudo travel 500 miles to Lands End

2008-11-30T22:14:00.000Z

Master Tsuchiya

2008-11-22T12:30:00.000Z

Ladies of the Night

2008-11-22T12:19:00.000Z

Japan Trip 2008 Plus WKF (Link to photo page)

2008-11-18T08:03:00.001Z

Check out some other Photo's via link.

WKF Championships Tokyo Nov 2008

2008-10-20T19:45:00.002+01:00

Good luck the English Karate Federation team & individuals.

The above clip is a promo

Bruce Miller at Bisham

2008-10-12T15:31:00.000+01:00

Baz was Uke that day.

Baz is on the left...............(note the eye)

Bruce Miller Tour

2008-10-12T15:23:00.000+01:00

Bruce Miller from Quan Li Kan style in the USA visits uk-karate.com Dojo

Bruce is one of the foremost pressure point experts with a more than adequate TCM & MWM background studying in the world today. With hands on civilian and military experience his applications and understanding of Kata is in my mind unique.

Sponsors of the the UK section of his tour include Terry Wingrove, Andy Manwaring, Robert Agar Hutton, Zoltan Deines, Joe Forbes and Myself.

Awsome stuff

Thanks Bruce, Dave, Adam & Ashley

Wingrove Hanshi Course Photo's (link to a few)

2008-09-08T17:41:00.002+01:00

A wonderful experience for those lucky enough to be invited.

Karate-Jutsu TW Explained and Demonstrated with Explicit Detail from within Practical Application.

The Difference Between Karate Do & Karate-Jutsu as it was and will be again.

The facts and antidotes to violent assault

2008-08-26T14:37:00.002+01:00

At the linked venue and times stated I will be giving a lesson on the above topics.

I will have 45 minutes to deliver. "something useful"......................not a wonderful miracle system, not a cure all defense for every situation or scenario and absolutely not a pretence to the horror of violence.

Tino Ceberano Hanshi M.A.S.C

2008-08-17T12:57:00.000+01:00

Tino Ciberano Hanshi demonstrating a full length press up. At 67 not bad............

The father of Australian Karate and probably the most senior Goju Kai Instructor in the world. A pioneer to the Yamaguch dojo, prior to the likes of Gary Speirs and Steve Morris. The Goju instructor that inspired the Chief Instructor of Go Kan Ryu to embark on his course.

A professional Martial Artist and Sports Consultant resident in Australia. A truly gifted, knowledgeable and charismatic person.

Photo taken by Alan Platt at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre England 2008

Alternative or Complementary Bunkai

2008-08-17T12:20:00.003+01:00

If people think of Bunkai as a rigidly adhered to sequence of events associated within a prescribed Karate Kata, they have given up on their own creativity or potential to understand the vast diversity of Karate or Kata.

Bruce Miller Healing in England

2008-05-25T12:01:00.001+01:00

Please make a note of all the courses, times and venues from the link above.

If would like to attend any of them please email the appropriot person or email me.

Bruce Miller Chinese massage and acupuncture seminarsThese seminars will provide PRACTICAL HANDS-ON ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH MINOR ACHES AND PAINS of the sort regularly encountered in martial arts and other training.

oyo@karate-jutsu.uk.com

Thanks

Cyberbudo at Grassau in the Bavarian Alps

2008-05-19T14:14:00.000+01:00

Some of the Polish, German and English Students at the Terry Wingrove Grassau Seminar.
An exceptionally good seminar from Mr Wingrove coupled with wonderful hospitality supplied from our German & Polish friends.

Bisham Karate-Jutsu Club on a trip to Germany

2008-05-08T13:47:00.003+01:00

International Jujitsu Course 16/17/18th May 2008

Selected members of the Bisham Abbey Cyberbudo Karate-Jutsu Club will be accompanying Terry Wingrove Hanshi to Grassau, Germany for an International Jujitsu Course.

Many more courses and events are planned for this year.

Ray Fox, Patrick McCarthy, Ronnie Calwell, Alan Platt. The Good the Bad the Ugly and the Wonderful

2008-05-02T20:42:00.002+01:00

What a privilege to be with these guys. Care of Cyberbudo & Terry Wingrove. A Patrick McCarthy seminar at Steve Scotts Dojo (KDI) Manchester. Forget grades & ego's, karate skills and knowledge were imparted without fear or favour.

Who needs SENI ?? With the Best in Town

2008-04-27T20:12:00.000+01:00

I've just had 2 days training with these 2 Masters Terry Wingrove & Patrick McCarthy. OK one in a crowd for the most part but on a few occasions one on one help from both. My training partners for both days were as good as one could hope for, with loads of spirit and good technique. Lucky me.

Sussex Uni Patrick McCarthy Seminar

2008-04-27T19:17:00.000+01:00

Sponsored by Hanshi Terry Wingrove, Hanshi Patrick McCarthy gave a another superb seminar at Sussex University on Sunday the 27th April. The training was very different from Saturday yet just as interesting for those who attended both courses.

Wycombe Judo Club Patrick McCarthy Seminar

2008-04-27T19:00:00.001+01:00

On Saturday 26th April a great day was had by all who attended. With some very informative instruction and some high intensity training. I think everybody there came away wiser to some of the techniques of Karate and Kata. There was no style or ego barrier to impede the transition of knowledge imparted by Hanshi McCarthy. Hanshi Wingrove was on hand to help anybody with advise or skill enhancements if required.

Hanshi x 2 divided by 8 @ Bisham

2008-04-25T23:05:00.000+01:00

Hanshi Terry Wingrove

2008-04-17T12:41:00.002+01:00

This is the New Look Cyberbudo site.

Inside there something of interest for almost everybody..............take a look!

Hanshi Patrick McCarthy Courses

2008-04-17T12:37:00.001+01:00

These and many other courses are available to anybody "Without Fear or Favor"

SENI Survival Steve Morris

2008-04-17T12:25:00.003+01:00

SENI 2008 will be a Martial Arts and Fighters Extravaganza.

I was there last year with Cyberbudo and thoroughly enjoyed the experience and atmosphere.

In the Survival Section this year, Steve Morris will be sharing an insight to his method. As a past student with some, if only minuscule experience of his methods, I would highly recommend to anybody, check him out.

Karate-Jutsu vs Karate-Do

2008-03-18T15:02:00.006Z

Karate-do: is comparable to any formulated, systemised or prescribed technique, which is deemed good or bad in comparison and perspective by opinion of persons not involved in the moment or movement, or a speculation of it's effectiveness and efficiency, subject to a set of prescribed rules or engagement restriction. Karate-do needs to emphasise the spiritual aspect of the Jutsu, with self discipline, mental and physical training. Emphasis is placed on how a technique is performed rather than it's effectiveness.

Karate-jutsu: can resemble and include any of the attributes of Karate-Do, except the effectiveness and efficiency of any technique, is demonstrated with a view to a submission, disrupt, damage or kill the opponent, no other criteria other than survival. Karate-jutsu is the Martial Art of kill or be killed or any derivatives of survival.

This ones an old one

2008-03-18T09:35:00.000Z

Going back in time when you had to read Japanese to fully benafit your grade.

Not Quite Karate-Jutsu Feeling is Believing

2008-03-18T09:25:00.001Z

A Leap of Faith, how much do you trust your technique?

Old Ruins Master & Student

2008-03-07T13:17:00.000Z

Priciples, Concepts & Style Differences

2008-03-07T13:09:00.002Z

The principles and concepts they all adhere to are the only things that bind them together as a package of styles. Similarity in styles is a consequence of the similarity to the principles and concepts they seek to achieve by all too often repetitious endeavour. Which after a while becomes altered to fit the pattern of event? Prescribed principle and prescribed concept in a quasi surreal situation and environment leads to unrealistic systemisation with differing emphasis's.

Each style is therefore different to the others. Obviously the origins of styles gives a more accurate account of their perspectives, which can be seen through the teaching and tradition of its founders and followers alike, if you have studied concepts and principles over styles. If you haven't, it will be difficult to understand the differences. Observations on emphases within techniques and applications are good indicators as to the overall differences.

Most styles with a competitive agenda have an embellished and over pronounced criterion that is subject to an observed opinion i.e. Judge or Referee, which almost always reflects in the grading syllabus, trend and tendency of that style. Different emphasis, different objective, different in personification to a similar style.

The strictly combative or tactile effective self defence styles are usually obscure in technique formality because of the range and diversity of the participant's abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Perhaps not as recognizable to many without experience and insight to the objective and circumstances of techniques used. However the effect should be the same. If you were to combine competitive with combativeness........all is lost and subject to different interpretations of said principles and concepts.

Take any of the styles you care to mentioned, look at them on YouTube, you can see the difference generally. Each exponent is different generally, apart from the clone syndrome effect often seen in the sporting or grading arena. Any technique taken from any system or style, if practiced and performed by 10 different sized and shaped students were to look the same, the conclusion would have to be that the prescribed form is too rigidly adhered to. Which we know can only be for affect and not effect. Also the effort would have to be different for each person because of the dynamics involved.

It would have to be different. If you practice a style over the natural tendency of your own skill and ability to achieve a prescribed effect, you will be working against two principles and two concepts. The preparation and stimulus alone would be different for each of us given a similar task, depending on the circumstances. The circumstances dictate the means not by the means dictating to the circumstances.

Alan Platt

Evolution of Kata

2008-03-01T19:40:00.002Z

Excerpt from Harry Cook's History and evolution of kata:...The great master of Shorin Ryu Choshin Chibana pointed out that "Karate, as it is transmitted, changes every few years. This is a common phenomenon. It happens because a teacher must continue to learn and adds his personality to the teachings. There is an old Okinawan martial arts saying that states that karate is much like a pond. In order for the pond to live, it must have infusions. It must have streams that feed the pond and replenish it. If this is not done then the pond becomes stagnant and dies. If the martial arts teacher does not receive infusion of new ideas/methods, then he, too, dies. He stagnates and, through boredom, dies of unnatural causes."...

It may be a common phenomenon..............however the teacher may just detract from the original form and omit or misrepresent by misunderstanding into his teachings. The pond will be sucked dry of some of the infusions and be diluted by watered down interpretation. The boredom of repetition without understanding then gets translated by inadequate authority.

Sounds about right to me.

Smile Please !

2008-02-17T21:05:00.000Z

Newton Abbot Dojo 17/02/08

2008-02-17T21:04:00.000Z

Terry Wingrove in Lancaster 3/2/08

2008-02-04T18:44:00.000Z

Lucky Boy

2008-02-04T18:25:00.000Z

Majid is off To Japan (one in middle)

2008-02-04T18:24:00.000Z

Jim Logue Ryu-Te at Bisham

2008-01-27T16:28:00.000Z

My Thoughts on Kata

2007-11-30T08:52:00.000Z

Wow! It was of interest to somebody and I hope many more.

Born Fighter by Dave Hazard (Link here to Review)

2007-11-23T18:21:00.000Z

I have read the book. If you know, heard of, been touched by Sensei Hazard or are a Karate student looking for Fact plus humour told as it is, in a way only Sensei can, this is a very good book. A legendary hard man? A warm, humorous person having dealt with life so far, as ferociously as it was dealt to him. All the stories have a pure meaning from my veiw. The dedication, the talent, the recognistion, the struggle and the joy that karate has given him, plus the volumes insperation to others he has poured back becomes obseive reading from cover to cover.

Horses for courses

2007-10-27T08:51:00.000+01:00

Thank you to everybody who made the effort to get to the Bruce Miller Courses. Once again it was good to be reminded of the effects and side effects of martial arts technique.

Having a better understanding of cause and effect is a far better option than rigidly adhearing to specific form, so often seen in martial arts. Knowing why, gives a better perception of how, practice gives a clearer perception for when.

All good stuff!

I promise you all his books and DVD's are well worth reference.

Safe from Harm or Peaceful Mind ??

2007-10-18T18:18:00.000+01:00

Pinan /Heian Kata. Very interesting theory.

Karate is Not an Expression of Aggression

2007-10-13T13:57:00.000+01:00

An interesting statement! I have to say, that for me aggression is an essential factor for consideration in the process of understanding karate and it’s mental discipline. Aggression has to be mastered from within and it's potential flaws fully understood.

Chuck Norris said "we are like tempered steel, once our temper is lost, so are we". It has also been said that the "Iron ore considers itself tortured in the furnace, but is enlightened as tempered steel".

Karate training must include a means by which we can learn to control reflex aggression. How we turn on and off an aggressive state of mind can make all the difference to our physical performance. We need to be in control of, or understand the procedure that takes over from logic. We can have an aggressive or passive attitude, both states of mind are important, both are reflected by our actions. It is not enough to just associate aggression with mindless violence, but see it as a tool, the consequence of understanding ourselves in greater depth. This I think is vital.

I abhor violence and unnecessarily aggressive behaviour. The more I understand the consequences of them when uncontrolled, the more I hate them. However there is a part of me that needs to be able to cultivate the procedure to acquire both to an extreme in order to survive.

A 1st For UK-Karate.com

2007-10-11T23:01:00.000+01:00

I can really recommend the Karatesite website as being jam packed with all sorts of interesting karate information. We are proud to be listed on their blog list. As of today..........the 1st one.

Bruce Miller in England Map and Times

2007-10-02T18:52:00.001+01:00

UK-Karate.com Dojo
Sacred Hearts Catholic "Church Hall", Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1AA

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?&hloc=GBKT111AA#t=l&map=51.32874,-0.41299154&loc=GB:51.32947:-0.41363:16KT111AAKT11%201AA

From the A3 down the Portsmouth Rd, Right at Roundabout into "Between Streets" follow along until Waitrose is on your left and The Sacred Hearts Church is on the right. Turn Right into Downside Bridge Road. Turn immediately right into Church Hall Car Park.

From the USA Bruce Miller 7th Dan Course www.quanlikan.com/

Very Special Guest Terry Wingrove 8th Dan Hanshi www.cyberbudo.com/

Thursday 25th October 7.30 - 9.30 pm
Cost £10 per person
Min Age 18

A donation from the course fee's plus any other donations will go to The Richard House Hospice www.richardhouse.org.uk/

For more information Contact Alan Platt 07957421371
alan@uk-karate.com

www.uk-karate.com/

Please book a place early for this very special event.

Many club instructors and students have already been invited. This will insure a very high standard of Karate for the novice to see.

This is a very special event for all shapes, sizes, grades and genders, "regardless of experience", to learn Effective Karate from World Class Masters.

Novices more than Welcome.

Karate-Jutsu Photo Album

2007-10-02T16:28:00.000+01:00

Cornwall Karate

2007-10-02T16:23:00.000+01:00

KARATE: Three Cornish Karate groups recently joined forces for a day, to learn from one of the world's foremost experts on the original "Jutsu" form of Karate. Adult instructors and students from Samurai Karate Cornwall of Penzance, Okushindo Karate Kai of St Austell, and the St Ives Shotokan Karate Club all came together to learn from visiting instructor Sensei Terry Wingrove.

Sensei Wingrove spent 21 years studying the martial arts in Japan, and now holds high-level black belts in Karate, JuJitsu, Judo and Aikido. Despite the fact that all three Karate groups practice different styles of Karate, everybody was in equal awe of Sensei Wingrove's methods and agreed that they had learnt a great deal from him. As an added bonus, the event raised £265.00 for Sensei Wingrove's nominated charity, the Richard House Children's Hospice.

Course organiser, Sensei Kevin Cooke, said "Traditionally in the UK, groups who practice different styles of Karate don't have a good track-history of working together, however this course was a great success and everybody made some new friends. Whilst we may have differences in the way that we practice Karate, we all felt the same pain when Sensei Wingrove demonstrated his Karate Jutsu techniques on us!

This is one 66 year-old you wouldn't want to mess with!" All three of the Cornish Karate groups welcome new students of any ability. Anyone interested in learning Karate in Penzance/Pendeen/St Just should contact Kevin Cooke (Samurai Karate Cornwall) on mobile 07706 797562. Anyone interested in learning Karate in St Ives should contact Steve Matteson (St Ives Shotokan Karate Club) on 01736 795477.

Anyone interested in learning Karate in St Austell should contact Dena Marshall (Okushindo Karate Kai) on mobile 07980 061115. It is hoped that a follow-up course with Sensei Wingrove will be run early next year, and that even more local martial art groups might attend.

My Makawara

2007-09-10T19:38:00.001+01:00

Power & Speed

2007-09-10T16:34:00.000+01:00

I now believe the basic principles of power production and transfer need to be re-addressed in karate and are vital. We need to understand how to produce power internally and create leverage, "off "the ground", transmit it through something "you", into something "your target"", to change it's shape or break it. This principle can be carried out at any speed to produce degrees of measurable effect with no ambiguity, "damage, disrupt or destroy". Not just point scoring so often the objective in today's karate areana. The movement required to produce this effect is a direct consequence of a victory over an objective, causing an effect. A similar action prescribed for appearance without the inclusion of essential factors which govern movement and production of power 'effort' may look good but will not do the job as well. Prescribed patterns of pretty inefficient movement for affect, portrayed in "sport or modern karate" systems today, are a prelude to failure if used in a violent conflict or for more practical reasons.
Walking is a good example of an inherent pattern that produces speed & power with a measurable effect, if it is done naturally. While maintaining a dynamic equilibrium, or proportionate weight distribution and displacement, speed & power can be transmitted via the ground, in a forward or backward motion. For example, right leg forward right arm back, hip leading the shoulder through the action. Equal and opposite action and reaction. This action in karate is similar to a no stance stepping gyaku tsuki, done repeatedly with fluidity it has the appearance of walking. It is a pattern inherent to humans and can have a direct result on how you think you move. It defines the basic natural mobility and power transfer pattern. Not an imitation with over emphasised ingredients illustrated by many karate movements. Naturally it covers in essence how basic kicking and striking actions should be analysed and studied in depth.

Without the essence of natural movement how can any karate technique be considered natural or powerful. Similarity of movement is not good enough to supersede natures attempt for the most efficient methods of movement. To move we have to initiate a lever off the floor, we push down and back to go forward and push forward and back to stop or go back. The more leverage we use the more powerful we are. To fully understand karate techniques we have to fully understand exactly what our body can or cannot do as a lever off the ground. This varies in body types, some fast, some powerful, some naturally fast and powerful. The style should suit the body not the body the style.

I think this is the main stumbling block of the prescribed styles of movement derived from sports karate masters. Paramount should be our understanding of what role the ground plays. Without it we aren't going nowhere, how can we?. In space if you hit something, would you move, or it?. The ground is our fulcrum, the body is our lever, we must seek maximum traction efficiency when in motion, not for an affect of motion, effect verses affect. The difference is the key to realistic effective movement.

The long jumper jumps 30m but is disqualified because he crossed the line by 5 inches, 1st and 2nd places go to 29m jumps, but who produced more effort and effect.
To increase the potential of walking into the realms of combat we have to put it in perspective by increasing it's effect. Walking up and down flights of steps increases the load and demands an increase in power output of your levers. Carrying excess weight contributes to the exercise and training procedure. The leverage that determines the speed and the power of the body will become evident. It's that leverage we want to increase the efficiency of. Speed comes as a consequence of practice and familiarity of movements. Take away the steps but keep the effort the same thing applies if you need to produce effective forward movement.

This type of training unfortunately is contrary to the prescribed methods of say Shotokan or other similar styles. For example right leg forward, right arm forward, stepping shoulders and hips in line. Oi tsuki, army walk, rank and file, misinterpreted "martial art" perhaps. If you can keep in mind the way we move naturally while walking. You can still incorporate the basic principles of power transfer but not to maximum effect. If you don't know what they are you can't use them. You have to retain full control of your movements and not throw one half of you body in, leaving the thrust behind you. It must come with you as part of the movement as a whole. You don't walk or run like that. You have to consider every moving part at all times or you would fall over. To practice stance and steps is wrong. We should step into a stance for a reason and out for another reason, a stance on it's own is just a static posture. The dead and those about to be, practice with great effect static postures in battle. Karate is how we move and transfer power not how we look standing or in prescribed staccato motion.

To illustrate my theory I will use this example of a probable action. If you throw a javelin, as a consequence of the run up you build up energy in motion as a moving mass. By use of interconnection of long bone levers and muscles you can stop on an axis point. Release the javelin, by projecting your mass power into the ground with one leg, letting the built up energy go into the javelin as you let go of it. Like a pole vaulter that leg is your pole or axis. The rest of your body is still travailing on and around the brake leg, it's your axis point. If you increase the leverage off of this leg in the time and space available, you can project the javelin forward, inertia will add to the natural release point, and off it goes. Increase the distance thrown by an increase in effort. Measure your progress through understanding production of power. Energy is created off the ground through you, into the javelin. The run up is short and is there only to increase the potential of release. High jump, shot put, all good examples of relatively quick releases of power. You could say 100m sprint but the start is the most important part of the action.

I have learnt that the "basics" I require are in movement, not static postures, although I taught that sort of thing for as long as I can remember in my Shotokan days. My old Goju Master Steve Morris would use his arm and legs like baseball bats and they hurt like hell. He taught me how to produce that effect through effective movement not affective movement. For a good example of what not to do. Age-uki like Oi-tsuki in most modern styles is defined by it's movement but emphasis is placed at the termination point of the technique i.e. kima or kia whatever. Where as in reality the sweet spot, of a strike would be where a linear and rotational arm or leg movements coincide. At the moment of contact, this would be during the action and would only terminate on contact while leverage and movement is still accessible. Many modern karate students train to make contact. I think we should train to improve the efficiency of the movement that will destroy on and during contact not what it looks like.

The modern masters will always object to that type of description and insist that there are more factors to take into consideration. It's true there are many more things to consider but they aren't fully understood or past on. They sometimes lack some of the essentials I mentioned in the above examples, they have to lead to failure when put to the ultimate test. I try not to pay too much attention to how I look but more what I do and why I'm doing it and what happens if I fail. The Motive and objective initiates the needed response to create the required effect. The majority of karate students I see train with mirror's copy an affect, or copy their mental images of their instructors in flight. Ultimately to only become parodies of the masters they imitate. They think they have the wings and feathers but don't know how to fly. For many students the modern master hasn't the time or the patients to explain in detail exactly what is required, and more to often the point, they aren't too sure what they are.

If it all makes sense to you good, if it doesn't, power up some steps, throw a ball and ask yourself what am I doing? . Manufacturing and distributing power to cause an effect, to project yourself or the ball. Tactics is another ball game.

The Right Technique

2007-09-10T14:06:00.000+01:00

If you have to look for a technique from your training repetoir, to use in a fight situation, it's probably the wrong one and too late.

A few good men

2007-09-04T22:10:00.000+01:00

Ask the Karate Experts

2007-09-02T23:08:00.000+01:00

My Own Eclectic Style of Karate-Jutsu Course

2007-08-23T13:42:00.001+01:00

Thursday 20th September 7.30 - 9.30 at

"The Sacred Hearts Catholic Church Hall" off Between Streets, Cobham (A3) Surrey.

I will be holding an mini course on my own applied eclectic style Karate-Jutsu. The course will focus on defence, primarily against common punching techniques. Once a foundation of the basic movements are understood we will move on to pre-emptive and counter attacks to vital targets.

The 2 hour session will flow quickly, hands on, in pairs. The principles of the session will be in uncompleted practice drill format. Contact and force will be kept to a minimum, the reasons for that will be obvious. The simple principles involved can be applied to many other situations.

Photo's and a video will be provided by us on request.

There will be a get together after at a local restaurant or bar.

To book a place or places please email me or ring 07957421371. Places are limited to the first 20. If you "book a place" and you can't make it on the night, payment or a substitute person is required.

Cost £10 per person.

Regards Alan Platt