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As promised here is another Fun video clip to wrap up your weekend.

Video Clip: ‘The Man Song’

Running time: Just under 2 minutes

Comments: Great laugh for someone….

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Enjoy your weekend!  And strap your seat belts on for an even better week coming your way!

Here is a fun video clip from the team at Sunshine Coast Karate which we hope puts you into a fun mood for the weekend.  A massive thanks to all the mums at Sunshine Coast Karate for making sure your super karate kids get to classes every week.  You are the best!

Video Clip: ‘The Mom Song With Lyrics’

Running time: Just over 3 minutes

Comments: Hilarious and great appreciation of what our mums do for us.  Make sure your kids watch it

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Enjoy your weekend!

BTW:  If you have any fun video clips we could share with everyone please send them in.

Here is a short 2 minute video clip that I stumbled across this morning.  I think all our martial arts friends at Sunshine Coast Karate will enjoy this one.  Just press play to watch.

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Firstly thank you to everyone who came along to the Christmast Picnic & Trianing Day yesterday.  It was great fun from all accounts everyone had a good time.  If you haven’t already done so be sure to check out some of the photos on facebook - you don’t need a face book account to see the photos.

We’ve also put a few videos up that you might enjoy too.  Santa throwing water bombs at the “naughty” kids.  And a few snippets from the archives of past Soke Cup performances, showing some great bogu kumite points and some kata highlights from a few good performances.  Videos on facebook.

We thought that the Soke Cup highlights might be appropriate now that team nominations have now closed for next year’s  Soke Cup in Japan.  And I have to say that it’s looking like a very strong team!

Now, for a few more exciting things before classes finshed for the year at the end of this week.

In the dojo – frozen treat week, all week, for all kids classes.  That’s all I can tell you about this one for now, you’ll have to get into the dojo if you want to know more.

The final Success Focus Mastermind will be this Wed.  Although this is not exactly a Karate event, it certainly keeps with the theme of the dojo being a centre for success in our local Sunshine Coast community.  The final mastermind meeting for the year will be based on the theme of raising your ” Financial IQ”.

Guest presenter will be Michael Ansell (financial planner) speaking about budgeting for success.  And we’ll be playing Robert Kiyosaki’s famous “Cashflow” board game.  If you’ve never played before, you don’t want to miss out.  It’s great fun and also great learning at the same time.

Everyone is welcome to come along, but RSVP would be appreicated, either via facebook, or contact Sensei Martin.

Success Focus Mastermind – More info & RSVP on facebook.

Wrapping up for the year.  The last class for the year will be Friday 18 December.  And this will also be the last classes for Senpai Rhys to teach at Sunshine Coast Karate.  As many members may already know, Senpai Rhys will be leaving us early in the new year to do some time with the Army, at this stage the plan is just for one year, but you never know where things go.  We wish Senpai Rhys all the best and would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the great work he has done as part of the teaching team and wish him all the best.

Then it’s Christmas & New Year Holiday time at the dojo until Monday 4 January 2010.  Classes will be back on then with almost the same training schedule, except for a few minor adjustments for adults in the evening classes.  Get a copy of the 2010 Training schedule.

I’m sure we’ll see you in the dojo this week.  But just in case we don’t see you, have a great Christmas and we’ll see you in the New Year.

Noonan Sensei, explains and demonstrates some fundamental biomechanics of Chito-Ryu.

In this video, Noonan Sensei explains and demonstrate the key elements of the corect biomechanics of a karate punch, in the Chito-Ryu system.  I highly recommend this video to all students of Chito-Ryu.

Here is the first in a series of videos that were filmed earlier in the year at the opening of the Australian Institue of Karate (TAIK), in Peakhurst, Sydney.  TAIK is the Honbu Dojo (headquarters) of the International Chito-Ryu Karate-do Federation of Australia (ICKFA).

In this video, Noonan Sensei (ICKFA Honbcho, Chief Instructor) interviews Soke Sensei (the Supreme Instructor of Chito-Ryu Internationally).  Whilst in Sydney, Soke Sensei officially opened TAIK, as part of his 2009 Australian Chito-Ryu dojo tour.

It seems like a lifetime ago since Soke Sensei’s Sunshine Coast visit.  But finally, here’s a bit of a review.

As always it was a great pleasure to have Soke Sensei visit the Sunshine Coast. Soke Sensei’s Australian visit commenced with training arriving on the Gold Coast Monday 18 May, where he taught evening classes and early morning class the following morning. As it turned out the timing was good for Gold Coast students to attend the morning training as it just happened to coincide with a teacher’s strike. Although due to bad weather, we missed out on beach training, which is something that Soke Sensei always looks forward to when he visits the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.

After morning training, we went back to Adam Sensei’s house for breakfast and then started the 2 hr drive back to the Sunshine Coast. The further north we drove, the worse the weather got with very heavy rain that stuck around for the next few days and cause a lot of flooding throughout Sout East Queensland.

Over the next 2 days Soke Sensei taught evening and morning classes which were very well attended. It was particularly intersting to see reactions from parents and students who were training with Soke Sensei for the first time. People were amazed that a man who will be 60 this year looked like he was going in slow motion, while students struggled to keep up with the pace. I guess that’s an indication of mastery, making things look simple and effortless.

The thing that really highlighted this to me, was an email that we received from a member when Soke Sensei was here.  An incredible video clip of sand art.  I was so impressed that I showed Soke Sensei, and he too was amazed, that “it looks so simple”.  Just in case you are interested here is the video.

Just like the Gold Coast, beach training was not an option, with king tides, flooding rain and storms.  The heavy rain also made it a bit difficult to hear what was going on in the dojo during parts of the evening classes.  The noise of the rain on the tin roof was almost deafening.

After morning training on the Wednesday, breakfast and a short walk on the beach between the rain, we drove to Brisbane where Soke Sensei continued on his Australian visit, next stop Newcastle.  Oringally from Newcastle myself, it’s worth noting that this year actually marks 25 years since the first dojo was opening in Newcastle by my former teacher.  Although my former teacher is no a part of the Chito-Ryu organisation, Chito-Ryu is alive and well in the region under the watchful eye of Greg Field Sensei.

By the end of the Soke Sensei’s short visit, everyone was keen for more and for the few that were attending the national camp in Sydney the following week they got a great treat.   But more about that in another post…