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OKKKR Newsletter August 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
okkkre.webs.com/
Legends Of Okinawa
In a small village in the southern part of Okinawa, there lived a 5 year old boy named Yara Chatan. This little boy was never sick ... he was quite a hyper little boy. The entire village decided to give the little boy's uncle all the money the village had so that the uncle and Yara could train in the Shoalin temple in martial arts. Yara stayed in China for 30 years studying kung fu martial arts. As time passed his uncle died. At the end of 30 years Yara ran out of money. So he went back to Okinawa. While he was in China the Satsuma, a disenfranchised samurai clan, had invaded Okinawa and now the Satsuma were in power. As he was walking along the beach to his village (he was now 35 years old) Yara heard a screams of a of a young girl. He ran to see what was going on. It was a young girl being raped by a Satsuma samurai. He yelled at the samurai telling him to stop his evil deed. Yara told the samurai "a man of your station must not behave in this manner". Before Yara finished his statement, the samurai went for his katana (sword) and attacked Yara, striking slicing and jabbing with his sword. Yara kept dodging ducking and jumping to avoid the attacks. All that went through Yara's head was "what should I do?" In Kung fu we did a lot of fighting, hand to hand or weapon to weapon but never an unarmed person against a crazed well trained samurai. As he was trying to avoid the attacks the young girl was hiding behind a row boat. She yelled at Yara and threw him an eku (boat paddle) and thus he defeated and killed the samurai. They buried his uniform and threw him to the sharks. The village he came from is now called Chatan which was his family name.
Note: these are stories passed down from generation to generation. All legends all have a real basis to them. There are living legends among us also. These are called living legends. Taketo Nakamura is an example of a karate living legend. A Japanese soldier at age 13 in the battle of Okinawa 1945.
March 2-3, 2013 is our next Okinawa Kenpo convention, so start saving your money for your trip to San Antonio, Texas. All you pay is your airplane ticket and food. Your room is free. If you are studying an Okinawa martial art or teaching Okinawa kenpo, as Shigeru Nakamura taught sensei Odo, this is what Shigeru Nakamura's dream was ... to preserve martial arts of the Ryukyu islands without losing its original and traditional methods of training as much as possible just as in the olden days where a practitioner could train mentally, spiritually and physically. For the mental part you set your frame of mind in actual reality "imagined" in the spiritual part, you get your ki-chi or internal energy "adrinaline" shooting into your blood stream to make you attack attack and attack. Then came the physical, to actually get in a knock down drag them around no rules fight. That was how the training was with Shigeru Nalamura and his peers, Cohun Miagi, Kyan Chotoko, Choki Motobu, Ginchin Funakoshi. In their youth in that era of the late 1800's that generation, their instructors were either of royalty, samurai class, or people of the local peasantry, who had learned by spying on the upper class or any another way they could. To the peasant sensei it was hit and miss school of hard knocks. This is the type of training I received in Okinawa. So he, Shigeru Nakamura, incorporated the "bogu", kendo like equipment, after WWII. This way one could actually try to kill your opponent without serious injury. Bruises and pain even with bogu was common and still is in my dojo but not severe enough to require hospitalization or intentionally kill someone practicing. Under the Shigeru Nakamura style of training is the way the american military that served on Okinawa were trained in the generation of the 50's and 60's, whatever the style was, Shorin Ryu, Uichi Ryu, Goju Ryu, Ishin Ryu it didn't matter. It was all hard stuff. The only problem was that when most of the military men came home they changed it into a sport for profit. But that is them ... not me Sensei Neco Medes Flores. My goal is to maintain our original ways and to preserve real Okinawan martial arts and some customs as in the days when your fist was the law, using your empty hands, and the old warrior ways. That is the meaning of our organization, the way you say all this in Japanese is "Okinawa Kenpo Karate Ko Budo Renme."
Okinawa is the biggest island in the Ryukyus. Kenpo means fist law. Karate Means empty hand. Ko means old or ancient.
Budo means military ways, warrior way, or martial arts. Renme is a generic term for some type of organization group or meeting from my understanding. We are an organization to preserve ancient Okinawan martial arts. The rule is keep it Okinawa pure.
Thank you and nihe debi du
Sensei Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com (karate related email/subscribe/unsubscribe)
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 August
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
okkkre.webs.com/
Legends Of Okinawa
In a small village in the southern part of Okinawa, there lived a 5 year old boy named Yara Chatan. This little boy was never sick ... he was quite a hyper little boy. The entire village decided to give the little boy's uncle all the money the village had so that the uncle and Yara could train in the Shoalin temple in martial arts. Yara stayed in China for 30 years studying kung fu martial arts. As time passed his uncle died. At the end of 30 years Yara ran out of money. So he went back to Okinawa. While he was in China the Satsuma, a disenfranchised samurai clan, had invaded Okinawa and now the Satsuma were in power. As he was walking along the beach to his village (he was now 35 years old) Yara heard a screams of a of a young girl. He ran to see what was going on. It was a young girl being raped by a Satsuma samurai. He yelled at the samurai telling him to stop his evil deed. Yara told the samurai "a man of your station must not behave in this manner". Before Yara finished his statement, the samurai went for his katana (sword) and attacked Yara, striking slicing and jabbing with his sword. Yara kept dodging ducking and jumping to avoid the attacks. All that went through Yara's head was "what should I do?" In Kung fu we did a lot of fighting, hand to hand or weapon to weapon but never an unarmed person against a crazed well trained samurai. As he was trying to avoid the attacks the young girl was hiding behind a row boat. She yelled at Yara and threw him an eku (boat paddle) and thus he defeated and killed the samurai. They buried his uniform and threw him to the sharks. The village he came from is now called Chatan which was his family name.
Note: these are stories passed down from generation to generation. All legends all have a real basis to them. There are living legends among us also. These are called living legends. Taketo Nakamura is an example of a karate living legend. A Japanese soldier at age 13 in the battle of Okinawa 1945.
March 2-3, 2013 is our next Okinawa Kenpo convention, so start saving your money for your trip to San Antonio, Texas. All you pay is your airplane ticket and food. Your room is free. If you are studying an Okinawa martial art or teaching Okinawa kenpo, as Shigeru Nakamura taught sensei Odo, this is what Shigeru Nakamura's dream was ... to preserve martial arts of the Ryukyu islands without losing its original and traditional methods of training as much as possible just as in the olden days where a practitioner could train mentally, spiritually and physically. For the mental part you set your frame of mind in actual reality "imagined" in the spiritual part, you get your ki-chi or internal energy "adrinaline" shooting into your blood stream to make you attack attack and attack. Then came the physical, to actually get in a knock down drag them around no rules fight. That was how the training was with Shigeru Nalamura and his peers, Cohun Miagi, Kyan Chotoko, Choki Motobu, Ginchin Funakoshi. In their youth in that era of the late 1800's that generation, their instructors were either of royalty, samurai class, or people of the local peasantry, who had learned by spying on the upper class or any another way they could. To the peasant sensei it was hit and miss school of hard knocks. This is the type of training I received in Okinawa. So he, Shigeru Nakamura, incorporated the "bogu", kendo like equipment, after WWII. This way one could actually try to kill your opponent without serious injury. Bruises and pain even with bogu was common and still is in my dojo but not severe enough to require hospitalization or intentionally kill someone practicing. Under the Shigeru Nakamura style of training is the way the american military that served on Okinawa were trained in the generation of the 50's and 60's, whatever the style was, Shorin Ryu, Uichi Ryu, Goju Ryu, Ishin Ryu it didn't matter. It was all hard stuff. The only problem was that when most of the military men came home they changed it into a sport for profit. But that is them ... not me Sensei Neco Medes Flores. My goal is to maintain our original ways and to preserve real Okinawan martial arts and some customs as in the days when your fist was the law, using your empty hands, and the old warrior ways. That is the meaning of our organization, the way you say all this in Japanese is "Okinawa Kenpo Karate Ko Budo Renme."
Okinawa is the biggest island in the Ryukyus. Kenpo means fist law. Karate Means empty hand. Ko means old or ancient.
Budo means military ways, warrior way, or martial arts. Renme is a generic term for some type of organization group or meeting from my understanding. We are an organization to preserve ancient Okinawan martial arts. The rule is keep it Okinawa pure.
Thank you and nihe debi du
Sensei Flores
related web links:
okkkw.webs.com/
okkkr.webs.com/
okkkre.webs.com/
email: nfdojo@yahoo.com (karate related email/subscribe/unsubscribe)
twitter: nfdojo
OKKKR Newsletter 2012 August