Japan Nationals Results – Japanese only
I’ve been looking long and hard for an online list of the Japan National results and have finally found them:
http://www.karatedo.co.jp/wado/taikai/46taikai/index.html
They are mostly in Japanese, but you can pick out the occasional foreign name.
Also, the following two downloadable documents may be of interest:
http://wado-kyouka.sakura.ne.jp/tournament2010kata.xls
&
http://wado-kyouka.sakura.ne.jp/tournament2010kumite.xls
These are downloadable MS EXCEL documents with the Kata & Kumite draws from the Wado World Cup 2010, as listed in the official programs. If I get chance I’ll highlight them so that it shows who won and how… enjoy.
Wadokai Nationals, running order…
Arakawa Sensei (Shiramizu) photo copied this running order schedule for me for Saturday’s JKF-Wadokai National Champioonships.
- sorry, the paper was folded in my pocket but if you download the image you should be able to see all the categories ok…
The use of YouTube in Karate clubs…
Our Karate club recently purchased a really cool new Sony Handycam (Camcorder). It’s really compact, meaning that it fits easily into our kit bag and totally idiot proof, meaning that even I can operate it and make it do what it’s supposed to… One of the reasons for this purchase is to use it to record our performances in Kata / Kumite etc… (And our students) on a more frequent basis. Sites like YouTube allows us to post instructional videos for our members to see, and also our student’s performances… then give the students private access to the video’s for them to study – perfect for during the holidays!
During the Wado World Cup & Japan Nationals, we’ll be recording a lot of JKF-Wadokai kata and posted the videos online as their is a big shortage of footage available.
After the Wado World Cup*, we’ll be posting Kata videos performed by Amy and I for our students to study.
*We’re not posting them BEFORE the WWC because we can’t let our competition see how good/bad we are 
Fighting fit…
Just a quick update to let my few readers know that I’ve been given the ‘green light’ from the Physio, I’ve moved on from RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) to MICE (Movement, Ice….) And I’ve been authorised to do some light stretching today too. Seiza is still beyond me, but another day or so and I’ll be 100% fit… ok, maybe 99.9% fit.
It’s been an eye opener being on crutches when out and about, I know people are trying to be helpful but some naturally assume that you can’t quite manage to open doors etc… or wait your turn at queues. It became quite frustrating so I quickly returned the crutches and made do with limping along everywhere instead… One of the England squad suggested that I practise the famous Karate Kid crane kick (see vid)
But instead, I was reminded of the equally famous (In Britain at least) Monty Python comedy sketch ‘The Black Knight’… One of the most memorable scenes from the Python library… ‘it’s only a flesh wound…!’
This video clip is NOT SUITABLE for younger viewers:
Special Thanks…
The parents (who are also instructors at our Karate club) are on holiday this week so it was always going to be a busy last week in England. Mr Vince has been a great help this week despite being full of the dreaded MAN-FLU, he’s been helping at all the classes and it’s much appreciated. Amy has been a superstar this week too. She was already working everyday this week, and then she would have been training in between. She’s managed to change all of her shifts at work to early morning shifts to lead our Karate classes each evening. This isn’t the ideal situation as Amy’s now on the go almost non stop from 7am until 9pm each day.
Now, I need to start packing and sort out my ITunes playlists…
..let’s talk about the weather
So, my shiny new phone has basically got ’Big Brother’ pre-installed, no not the really bad TV program, the secret service! My phone knows who I am, where I am and what I’m up to… one of the benefits of this is that the phone can tell me what the weather is, where I am, and also where I’m going.
Today’s weather in Hartlepool, my home town has been a scorching 25 degrees celsius, with lows of 16 degrees… Tokyo, where we’ll be in a few weeks has been 33 degrees celsius, with lows of 27!!!
It’s actually hotter there at night than it is here during the day.
Needless to say that i’m probably going to melt when we land in Tokyo…
4 week countdown…
there’s only 4 weeks to go until Carl & Amy head off to Japan for the Wado World Cup & the
Wadokai National Championships… Two MASSIVE competitions which are being held in two different cities in Japan.
14th & 15th August, Wado World Cup, Nagoya City
This comp is the highest level ‘single-style’ competition in our international organisation, the JKF-Wadokai. Each country will send their top two senior’s for each weight division in Kumite and only two senior’s for Kata.
21st & 22nd August, JKF-Wadokai National Championships, Tokyo
This comp will be bigger, and in some ways, tougher than the Wado World Cup. This competition allows unlimited entries into ALL categories. Carl has competed in this competition twice already, and Amy once.
This blog will cover some of the prep work that they are doing in the final few weeks and if they remember may also include some hints and tips to those of you interested in Karate…
Let us know what you think of the blog, and don’t forget to tell your friends all about it. This is just one more way for you to keep in touch with the latest at Hartlepool Wadokai Karate Club. Don’t forget that you can also follow us on twitter & facebook…
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