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Hi Everyone,

Please find details below highlighting our training schedule throughout Easter.

-  Easter Games Week #2 (in class): Monday 29th March – Thursday 1st April
-  Good Friday:  2nd April – No Classes
-  3rd April:  – Easter Picnic & Training Day (organised by ICKFA Sunshine Coast Branch Inc)  More information
If you are planning on attending this event please add your name to the sign up sheet at the dojo.
-  Easter Monday:  5th April – No Classes
-  Tuesday 6th April – Friday 9th April  – Training as usual.  Please refer to Sunshine Coast Karate Schedule

We hope that you all have a great Easter!

Hi Everyone,

There is much excitement at Sunshine Coast Karate at this very moment.  Soke Sensei will arrive on the Sunshine Coast on Friday and begin teaching on Friday night.

You can review the complete training schedule for Soke Sensei’s visit here.

Please note that we will be cancelling both day classes next week (Tuesday 16th & Thursday 18th March) to accommodate Soke Sensei.  Early morning classes for next week (Tuesday 16th & Thursday 18th March) will continue as normal.

For all members who would normally train at these times, please feel free to alter your training schedule to make up missed classes and by all means take advantage of as much training with Soke Sensei as you can.

Enjoy your training this week and we look forward to catching up with you all at the dojo.

Just One Lesson With Soke Sensei Can Have A Profound Impact On Your Life, Not To Mention Your Journey To Black Belt & Beyond!

Dear Members,

The Supreme Instructor of the Chito-Ryu system of Karate-do, Soke Sensei, is without a doubt, the most incredible martial artist I have met. And having been around the martial arts for over 25 years I am still amazed and humbled by his profound depth of knowledge and his amazing ability to apply that knowledge.

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of training with Soke Sensei since his first visit to Australia back in 1987 and the many trips that he’s since had to Australia. I have also had several trips to Japan to train with him, including nearly a full year where I trained full-time as a live-in student of Soke Sensei at the Chito-Ryu International Headquarters in Kumamoto Japan. Of course this was many years ago, before I moved to the Sunshine Coast, when I was much younger.

Here’s some great news, you don’t have to go to Japan! Soke Sensei is coming to the Sunshine Coast, NEXT WEEK! And here’s what we’ve got planned for you:

• Full day training seminar with Soke Sensei (open to all ages and levels)
  • • Sunday, 14^th March, 9am – 5pm @ Palmwoods Memorial Hall.
      Doors will be open from 8.45am, training will commence at 9am sharp.
    • Training will be broken into various sessions throughout the day.
      BYO lunch or the shops will be open across the road.
• Another full day training seminar with Soke Sensei for instructors and senior members (1^st kyu and black belt only).
  • • Saturday, 13^th March, 9am – 5pm @ Maroochydore Dojo.
• 4 nights of regular classes in the dojo with Soke Sensei.
  • • Friday, 12^th March @ Maroochydore Dojo.
    • Monday, 15^th March @ Maroochydore Dojo.
    • Tuesday, 16^th March – @ Maroochydore Dojo. Slightly adjusted schedule.
      6.15-7.10pm – Teens & Adults class (all levels)
    • Wednesday, 17^th March – @ Maroochydore Dojo. Slightly adjusted schedule.
      5.30-6.10pm – Intermediate kids class (green belt and above)
• Your chance to ask Soke Sensei any questions you want with the help of a professional Japanese translator.
  • One of our local karate Mums Keiko, is a native Japanese speaker and worked as a professional translator for several years in Japan. We have personally been getting Japanese lessons with Keiko for a while now, and Keiko has agreed to help us make this incredible experience with Soke Sensei even better.

    
    During Soke Sensei’s visit, we plan to record an interview with Soke Sensei and the help of Keiko, to ask all the questions that we don’t normally get to ask due to our limited Japanese skills. We’ve got some great questions that we want to ask, but we encourage you to pass on your questions, and we’ll do the best we can to fit them in as well. Email would be the best way to get the questions to us, so that we have a written record.

    
    This interview will be done outside of class time, but we will make the recordings available to members who want a copy.

• And one last thing, you can join Soke Sensei for open seminar on the Gold Coast and evening classes for 2 nights.
  • • Thursday, 18^th March – Evening classes @ Gold Coast Dojo, Asmore.
      Dojo address – 5/14 Harper St, Ashmore.
      More info go to: gckarate.ning.com
    • Friday, 19^th March – Evening classes @ Gold Coast Dojo, Ashmore.
    • Saturday, 20^th March – Open training seminar (all ages and levels)
      6.30am – 12.30pm @ Trinity Lutheran Primay School Hall, Cotlew St, Ahmore
      Please note early start and early finish is due to travel arrangements for Soke Sensei to fly to Sydney for more seminars and training the following week. Even if you cannot make the early start, do the best to get to as much as possible.
      

And the best part, all of this is absolutely FREE for members!

So if you’re serious about your training, you definitely don’t want to miss out on this incredible opportunity to train with Soke Sensei.

I know that I’m looking forward to it. I’ll see you in the dojo.

Regards,

Martin Phillips

If you could have a full day of training with the world’s most exceptional martial artist and instructor, would you be there?  What would you give.  For me I gave up nearly a year of my life, travelled to Japan (many years ago) and trained full-time.  But you don’t have to do that!

What if you could do it for FREE in your home dojo.  And what if you could have another 4 nights to train with him, and the opportunity to ask any questions you wanted with the help of a translator to ensure that nothing gets lost in translation between Japanese and English.

Well…. if you’re a member of Sunshine Coast Karate, that’s exactly what you get, starting next Friday (12th March), Soke Sensei will be here on the Sunshine Coast.  And black belts (and 1st kyus) get an additional bonus of a full day of training.  This is an opportunity not to miss.

And for those who are super keen, you can get even more with a day trip to the Gold Coast for another full day.  I know I’ll be doing this, plus a trip to Sydney as well in order to get in as much karate training as I can to help push me to greater heights and to in turn share this with members. After all Soke Sensei is my teacher, and I don’t get the opportunity to train with him as much as I would like, so I take every chance I can get.

Details of Soke Sensei’s 2010 Australian tour are available on the ICKFA website.  Full details will be available soon at the dojo, we just need to finalise some of the specifics.