Student Reports

The Kata Seminar had indeed reached its third seminar.

The kata for today's seminar was Pinan Sono 5 and Tekki Sono 1. Having learned from the previous seminar, this time, everyone had turned up with plenty of time before the seminar and was focusing on stretching out and warming up their bodies to be fully prepared. All 26 Dojo students had gathered to attend the seminar. The atmosphere was tense from even before the seminar had started.

Having just achieved the 8th Kyu, Pinan Sono 5 and Tekki was a totally new kata for me.

Osu!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sensei Tohyama for allowing me to take the grading, and to everyone of you in the Tohyama Dojo for your heartfelt support.

To be honest, I had to think over whether I was really up to taking the grading when Sensei Tohyama first suggested so. Though I was going through a hard time of my own, trying to balance my job, family and Karate, with some concerns I had to cope with over my health, in the end it came back to me that 'No or Cannot' is not an option in Kyokushin Karate.

I was not completely confident, but with the help and support

Under the warm autumn sunshine, many of the Dojo students had gathered up at the Acton Dojo to attend the 2nd Kata Seminar. Each and every one of them eager to gain the essence in depth and to possibly master the Katas we were about to work on.

All Dojo students who were to attend this Kata Seminar have been notified of the Katas to work on and had all practiced, but the seminar itself was of a very advanced level that most of us found it challenging to even keep up with it.

With the fact that this seminar was held on a Sunday, all of us should have come with high intentions in an