Having overseas practitioners in the Minei dojo

Aug 20th Thurs
There held a party in the Minei dojo having Onaga-sensei,Fujioka-sensei & overseas practitioners.Overseas practitioners were from Canada,Belgium,Spain,Australia,Italy as far as I remember. We talked,sang,did cheers over beers!






Above:Onaga-sensei,Fujioka-semsei & overseas students saying hello to Minei-sensei

Paul-san & Ryan-san teaching at a children class & their own training

Aug 17th Mon

Paul-san and Ryan-san had a kid class on Aug 17th Mon from 7:00pm to 8:00pm. They were asked to have the class. They didi it in English, the children weren't able to understand it though. But the children got what Paul-san and Ryan-san meant to teach them, which meant Karate is a universal language.

ポールさん親子が8月17日子供の空手教室で指導しました。途中から嶺井先生と奥間先生の「補助」も入りました。お互い言葉は通じなかったけど身振り手振りで理解しあえたようでした。空手は世界共通の言葉”Universal language"かも！

Kata training in the adult course

Kururunfa?


Today, it's Paul-sensei in place of -san! Kids are trying to follow him.
Looks lile no language barrier between them!

Paul-san teaching Gekisaiichi

After the opening ceremony of 2009OTKWT

After the opening ceremony, we came back to Tsuhako and had a little bit of party at Tokimitsu san's "sekando hausu"(hut). The Donaldson from Canada joined it too. Paul-san, his wife Suzanne-san, both his son and student Ryan-san came all the way from Canada to join the 2009OTWT and the OGKK's 40th anniversary(Aug 21st to Aug 23rd).


We've been expecting you the Donaldson with open arms!

The Minei Dojo people join 2009 Okinawa Traditional Karatedo World Tournament(2009OTKWT).

It's been a long time since the last blog. How have you been?

2009OTKWT had been held from Aug 14th(Fri) to Aug 16th at Okinawa Prefectural Hall of Martial Arts.

The Minei Dojo joined the Opening ceremony & Demonstrations on Aug 14th as a member of OGKK. OGKK adult perfomed Seipai, children Gekisai daiichi and Gekisai daiini.

Many Karate practitioners from all over the world were found perfoming so hard, maybe it could have been much harder than Okinawan practitioners. What is more, Some of them were more polite than those of Okinawas, which made me amazed. Anyway I realised that Karate won the popularity globally around the world. We, Okinawan, should be very proud of it.

2009沖縄伝統空手道世界大会が2009年8月14日～8月15日期間で沖縄県立武道館で開かれました。嶺井道場は剛柔流協会のメンバーとして開会式の集団演武に参加しました。大人は十八手、子供達は撃砕第一・撃砕第二を披露しました。

　　この大会には世界各国からの空手家が一堂に会しました。14日の開会式や15日の大会に出場していました。沖縄は空手の本場ですが、その沖縄の空手家にも劣らないほど見事な形を披露していましたね。我々沖縄の空手家も彼らに負けないように稽古しなくちゃと感じました。更に感心したのが、彼らの礼儀正さ！これも見習わなくては。私たちは、あまりにも空手が身近過ぎてないがしろにしている部分があるのかもしれませんね。

The Photo above: Minei Nanko sensei with Adult students and children students after the demonstration.

上の写真は8/14の集団演武のあと嶺井南康先生を囲んでの集合写真