Ryueiryu karate seminar
Date：11,12 Mar. 2017
Venue: Okinawa karate kaikan
Teacher: Master Sakumoto tsuguo , Master Tomishiro azusa ,Master Shimizu yuka
Kiyona ryo ,Kinnjo arata, Uemura takuya( WKF team kata champion)
Aim: Ryueiryu kata's special trainning method, How to win at tournament etc.
Member's compoistion.
My name is Joe Shiba and on March 11 - March 12,I gained an extremely valuable experience of attending a Karate seminar and practicing under the Karate World Champions in Okinawa. On the first day we went to where we would be practicing for the next 2 days and greeted Sakumoto Tsuguo Sensei. After we had greeted Sakumoto Sensei he introduced us to the teachers who we would be training under for the next 2 days. Next we all sat down and listened to Sakumoto Sensei give us a short lesson on the long history of karate and Ryueiryu. Straight after the short lesson all 100 people grouped up and started a warm up. As it was a brand-new dojo the floor was very slippery and there were many people tripping over. Once our bodies were warmed up we all sat on our knees and were taught the correct stance and ready position for Ryueiryu. To put this into practice the world champions gave us a correct demonstration of aaran. Their Kata had incredible force and detail in it and every movement was incredibly refined. This is a sight I will never forget. After the amazing demonstration from the teachers we split up into groups and we practiced with individual champions and a variety of kata’s. Each champion had given us detailed explanations of how every move had meaning to it and that the key to improving Kata’s is to remove any unnecessary movement. We finished the first day by presenting out improved Katas to Sakumoto sensei to critique. We started the second day of lesson by greeting Sakumoto sensei and the importance of sideways movement in Ryueiryu. We warmed up the same way as the day before and we were all sweating already. On the second day we focused heavily on every movements meaning and we practiced with those in mind. The champions teaching was very delicate, precise and focused on our problems. From this I learnt what I had to focus on in my future training and I feel from this seminar our skill of karate has improved greatly. Finally we had all grouped up, did our Kata under Sakumoto sensei’s orders and finished an amazing 2 days. I would like to thank Sakumoto sensei and all the teachers for this amazing experience I will never forget.
Dylan Thomas
From 11th and 12th of March some of my teammates and I were in Okinawa, Japan for a karate seminar. We had a valuable privilege to meet the world karate champions!
Sakumoto Tsuguo sensei taught us about the history of rureiryu karate, how they started this form of karate and when they were born. We also had lots of fun doing kata training with the kata champions. The various katas we did were pachu, heiku, paiku, kururunfa, suparinpei, sepai and more.
I was really grateful to get to train in such a massive karate dojo in Okinawa for the these 2 days! We were all set ready for such a big training session for 9 hours. When the champions and the grand master Sakumoto sensei and other champions like Ryo Kiyuna, Arata Kinjo,Takuya Uemura and many more fantastic world karate champions came we introduced ourself and gave our presents to them showing our appreciation. I was very nervous to train with them.
We had to pick one kata to start with, then from there we kept on rotating around until all katas were complete. They showed us the details and every move after mover for each kata which took a long time but in the end I felt like it had helped me a lot. After every kata all groups had to present it in front of Sakumoto sensei which was a bit nerve wracking but I still thought it was a great idea. I would like to go there again if there is another chance. I would like to work on my shiko dachi but other then that I think it was a great opportunity and experience to train with champions and learn about the history of rureiryu
