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Who is Sensei Frank Nowak?
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Written by Ron Richmond
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It’s hard to believe that 20 years have already gone by since the passing of Sensei Frank Nowak in 1991. In two decades, his organisation, Zanshin Shotokan, has continued to grow with new students and even some new instructors who have never trained with him or seen him in the flesh. Many of Zanshin’s new generation only know Sensei Nowak as the founder via the stories of other instructors and older students who still speak of him in reverent tones. And the many karateka who have sprouted in Australia over the past decade or two might rightly ask, ‘Who is Frank Nowak?’
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Written by Mike Clarke
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On his most recent of many training trips to Okinawa, Mike Clarke visited a host of karate masters from different dojos, including a few old friends. Here, he relates how the influx of foreign karateka and wannabe masters has affected the island’s karate culture.
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Written by Ben Stone & Bryson Keenan
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In recent years, the name Taira Sensei has become known in many parts of the martial arts world as being synonymous with the increasing movement of Western karateka back to the roots of their art. Those roots are found in Okinawa and, more importantly, in the combative principles and techniques that kata were originally designed to teach and preserve. Taira is considered a master of these and is unusually open in teaching them, hence his growing popularity among Western sensei seeking more from their art. On a recent visit to Australia, Taira also opened up to Blitz about his karate method. interview by ben stone & bryson keenan images by charlie suriano
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Written by Kazuo Ishitobi
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Born in Kobe, Japan, in 1948, Shihan Kazuo Ishitobi is today one of the most senior instructors of the World Shito-ryu Shukokai Union. Now 8th Dan, Ishitobi was a student of the late Shukokai founder Chojiro Tani Soke, himself a student of Shito-ryu’s originator, Kenwa Mabuni. Shihan Ishitobi travels every year to Australia to teach local Shukokai karate students, and on his most recent visit he gave Blitz a little insight into his approach to karate.
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The Legacy Shuri Part Two
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Written by Mike Clarke
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Shorin-ryu is a fighting method that developed in the royal capital of Okinawa, the small group of islands far off Japan’s southern coast known as the birthplace of karate. While most Okinawan karate styles practised in Australia have their origins in Naha-te, the martial art from Okinawa’s Naha city that was greatly influenced by fighting methods from China’s Fuzhou region, Shorin-ryu is an equally important cog in the martial machinations of the islands. During his visit to the Ryukyu Kingdom (as Okinawa was traditionally known) earlier this year, Mike Clarke interviewed four prominent teachers of Shorin–ryu. Here, he reveals what he discovered about the ways of Okinawan karate via a meeting with Minoru Higa Sensei.
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Unlocking Karate’s Mysteries
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Written by Ben Stone
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Master Toshio Morita, 8th Dan, is a unique karate instructor. Along with his teacher and founder of Goju Kensha, Hanshi Tadahiko Ohtsuka (now retired), he shook up the Goju karate world through intense study and reworking of kata, and adapting methods from Chinese internal systems like tai chi. He recently visited his long-time Australian student, Kyoshi James Sumarac, the principal of Goju-ryu Kakurin Kan Karate International, to conduct the annual Black-belt training camp at Sumarac’s Wu Lin Retreat in Lancefield, Victoria. Blitz caught up with both masters to talk about all things karate.
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