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OKKKR Newsletter June 2012
Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Renme
Shigeru Nakamura.- Founder
Seikichi Odo - Supreme Instructor
Taketo Nakamura - Grandmaster
Neco Medes Flores - President
Elodia Flores - President of Karate for Women
The first weekend of March 2013 is the next Okinawa Kenpo convention. I hope you will attend. One of our guest speakers will be Dean Stephens. There will be transportation to and from the airport. You will be staying at the Seikichi Odo Inn compliments of the one and only Sensei Odo.
TRIVIA
- Did you know grandmaster Taketo Nakamura was a Japanese soldier during WWII? He was 13 years old.
To those of you that who were never in the military it means very little ... to those who were in the military for one hitch, you understand. Those that were lifers in the military, especially the marines, look to old soldiers like Taketo as a Bushi. To us, people like him and he are living Bushi and to us, the extremely few, the proud the marines who are martial artist and who have seen combat can identify with him being a Bushi. Not just marines, all military men and women who fall in actual war military categories and still practice the martial arts after going through all they have gone through. And to the other serious martial artist they also have this spirit of bushi (war veteran) that we passed on to them.
- Solving personal problems with karate. "ichi ni san", simple as that.
Ichi - your brother just got killed died or whatever,
Ni - mourn him, attend the wake, rosary or whatever the family religious custom may be ... let out all your frustrations, grievances, hates, loves, memories, or whatever else.
San - bury him ... and all the bad memories that bring you pain and bad feelings. Just like you don't dig up his body, you don't dig up bad feelings and bad memories. But do keep the good memories and good feelings of him.
I know ...it happened to me.
Now that all your problems are solved, please, someone send in something so I can put it in the newsletter.
I have a question for some people. Why do you have politics? I don't have politics if I want to do kata and exercises ... I just do it. If several people want to do it with me we just do it. That's about as political as we get in our dojo. Or we ask things like "Is that a punch or a block?". The other thing is that we agree to train like Sensei Odo trained us. And it is 99% sweat 1% talk. Most of the words we spoke were "mo ilkai". Sensei Odo would say, "one mo time". Sensei Taketo Nakamura would say, "once more". We would answer "Hai Sensei!"
THAT is Okinawan politics.
Sensei N. Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 June
Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Renme
Shigeru Nakamura.- Founder
Seikichi Odo - Supreme Instructor
Taketo Nakamura - Grandmaster
Neco Medes Flores - President
Elodia Flores - President of Karate for Women
The first weekend of March 2013 is the next Okinawa Kenpo convention. I hope you will attend. One of our guest speakers will be Dean Stephens. There will be transportation to and from the airport. You will be staying at the Seikichi Odo Inn compliments of the one and only Sensei Odo.
TRIVIA
- Did you know grandmaster Taketo Nakamura was a Japanese soldier during WWII? He was 13 years old.
To those of you that who were never in the military it means very little ... to those who were in the military for one hitch, you understand. Those that were lifers in the military, especially the marines, look to old soldiers like Taketo as a Bushi. To us, people like him and he are living Bushi and to us, the extremely few, the proud the marines who are martial artist and who have seen combat can identify with him being a Bushi. Not just marines, all military men and women who fall in actual war military categories and still practice the martial arts after going through all they have gone through. And to the other serious martial artist they also have this spirit of bushi (war veteran) that we passed on to them.
- Solving personal problems with karate. "ichi ni san", simple as that.
Ichi - your brother just got killed died or whatever,
Ni - mourn him, attend the wake, rosary or whatever the family religious custom may be ... let out all your frustrations, grievances, hates, loves, memories, or whatever else.
San - bury him ... and all the bad memories that bring you pain and bad feelings. Just like you don't dig up his body, you don't dig up bad feelings and bad memories. But do keep the good memories and good feelings of him.
I know ...it happened to me.
Now that all your problems are solved, please, someone send in something so I can put it in the newsletter.
I have a question for some people. Why do you have politics? I don't have politics if I want to do kata and exercises ... I just do it. If several people want to do it with me we just do it. That's about as political as we get in our dojo. Or we ask things like "Is that a punch or a block?". The other thing is that we agree to train like Sensei Odo trained us. And it is 99% sweat 1% talk. Most of the words we spoke were "mo ilkai". Sensei Odo would say, "one mo time". Sensei Taketo Nakamura would say, "once more". We would answer "Hai Sensei!"
THAT is Okinawan politics.
Sensei N. Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 June