The British Aikido Board
Disastrous National Nepotism Seminar 2004 – 99 Students
By Henry Ellis
This features the founder of Shotokan karate actually performing ippon kumite techniques with Isao Obata. This classic footage has never before been seen by the public. Reportedly it was originally in the archives of the JKA and it was filmed before the JKA was even formed. Pre JKA Masters such as Nakayama, Kanazawa, Okuzaki, and […]
Wall of silence by professor Rick Clark
He
was a perfectionist, a disciplinarian and a traditionalist. But, at the
same time, an innovator, an internationalist and a man of great
generosity. More important, he was a famous educator and the father of
modern sports in Japan.