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Article & Video of the month: Unshu (also known as Unsu)
  Over the past couple of years we have been working on a new karate research study of a sensitive nature for karate-ka. It has been a great project full of learnings. This is the 2nd in a trilogy of evidence-based studies analysing karate’s shingitai (mind/spirit/body-technique). Our first was the street fighting statistics and bunkai book. Both that book and this second one look at 2 differing aspects of 'tai’ in shingitai. Of course also cross into ‘shin’ and ‘gi’. Hopefully, the hypotheses and data as to why lifespan is reduced in karate-ka, style effects, the role of technique, life habits tied to karate and diagnostics may provide some answers to allow for better outcomes in the decades to come. Jul 31st: Shito-Ryu International Taikai, San Francisco. Jun 27th: California Camarillo Championships. Apr 24th: Adelaide Karate Camp, South Australia. Mar 7th: JKA/WF Queensland Regional Championships. Feb 22nd: Sunshine Coast Karate Championships. Peregian Springs, Queensland. Jan 24th: Shihan Jason Armstrong, 7th dan - Sunshine Coast seminar. More details & other karate events...   Very few karate-ka or instructors have looked at the medical facts related to
people’s fighting injuries and why they present at a hospital after street fighting or violent assault.  Martial artists can take a
lesson from the medical practice acronym “EBP” which stands for evidence-based practice. Medical practitioners use “evidence-based practice” as a practice pathway that involves a doctor analyzing data to establish a path of treatment, or future practice. Practicing the art of self defense should involve training with an understanding of the data related to what violence damages people in the streets. It should not simply follow what martial arts teaches for sports environments based on either “points” or “tap outs” in rule limited systems. To ensure one is studying the correct techniques for self defense, we should be looking at what is potentially damaging and combining that with a balance of the probability that such an injury will actually occur. This is opposed to blindly practicing techniques year after year that according to the data rarely cause an injury in a street fight. Download PDF or Print edition... Some older photos of some "Network" instructors...
 Amgen Karate Shito-ryu dojo, California
2010: Garry Edwards sensei with Chinen
sensei of Goju - Jundokan  1996: Sotokawa sensei 8th Dan
& Jason Armstrong in Himeji Japan (Renbukan a parallel Shito-ryu style to Tani Shukokai)   Hanshi Sells, 8th dan Mabuni line shito-ryu,
in Japan demonstrating Sai kata. 2009: Dinner in Okinawa with Goju's Taira sensei and family - Jason Armstrong   1999: A young 16 yr old Nick Lukich
in Himeji Japan with Iba sensei (8th dan Renbukan). Renbukan a parallel Shito-ryu style to both Tani Shukokai & Kimura Shukokai. Business Plan Template for Karate & Martial Arts Dojo
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and Shito-ryu placing kansetsu waza on Sensei Jason Armstrong in Himeji Japan.  We are deliberately made up of sensei from differing styles and network not as one badged organization, but rather as karate dojo ensuring excellence in karate's traditions. The website brings together associated dojos in Japan, Australia and the USA and provides an online traditional karate resource repository. Our online members exceed 50,000 and include most countires in the world.
This website forms a linking backbone for the "Traditional Japanese Karate Network" which consists of dojos or instructors with a common lineage of Okinawa and Japan. The networking activities began in 1997 and consists of:
Content assembled from:
- 2 research trips to Okinawa
- presented by an instructor who lived in Japan
A complete study of any kata should involve its history,
philosophy, medical physiology & application. - Kata pattern with style comparisons
- done slow & fast bunkai for all moves (with some style variants)
- Chinese moves and origins
- kanji, history, philosophy
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