written by sensei Brian George (3rd Dan)
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ISSUE 2
Newsletter date June 1999
Karate-Do is a noble martial art, and you can rest assured that those who take pride in smashing tiles and breaking boards, or who boast of being able too perform outlandish feats like stripping flesh or plucking out ribs, really know nothing about karate. They are playing around in the leaves and branches of a grat tree, without the slightest concept of the trunk.
Gichin Funakoshi.
Training is in line with what we planed a little while ago by separating the sessions into different categories. Now it is up to you as a student to take full sdvantage of this area of training and if you start thinking and questioning what and why you are doing somthing whrther it be a technique or combination.
You should then start to understand what you are doing.
We as your sensei's are there to help in any way we can, there is also no reason when a question comes up that you want answering that if you ask a higher grade then you are getting information.
From a 3rd party. This info into how someone else interpitates what they are doing.
As you should all know bynow the grading are to be held on Sunday 18th July 99.
This grading will be having an additional attraction for those who are interested in doing well.
We will be introducing back into the system the plaque for 'Best Grade of the Year.'
this placque has not been awarded to anyone for the past 2 years.
As you may or may not know
Basics
Kumite
Kata
From these areas you have to reach a certain amount of marks. The marks are a minimum in each area. So the more marks you accumulate the more chance you have of winning the plaque.
