A great Uechi Ryu Karate seminar with Bruce Hirabayashi Sensei (8 Dan) from the USA was held at Regensburg/Germany on October 1st and 2nd, 2016. The event was organized by Paul Kronschnabl Sensei and his students of Regensburg Dojo Uechi-Ryu. The main subject of the seminar was 'Sanchin - from the inside out'. Principles about how to improve stability and transfer power through a proper body alignment, relaxed muscles and a firm rooting to the ground. About 40 participants from six different dojos (Kenyukai Bad Kissingen, Munich and Wuerzburg, Okikukai Munich, OUKA Erlangen and IUKF Regensburg) joined the event. Since there are not so many Uechi Ryu seminars in Germany during the year, this was a good opportunity for Uechi-Ryu practitioners to gather and practice together, and, to meet old and make some new friends.
(The photos and the information were offered by Thomas Podzelny Sensei)
More photos of the event:
{gallery}/event-images/hirabayashi-seminar-germany2016/{/gallery}
Lazare Pouchard Sensei (4. Dan), chief instructor of the AKKO (Association Karate Kobudo D' Okinawa), organizes an Uechi-Ryu karate seminar in Larçay with Shimabukuro Yukinobu Sensei (9 Dan), technical director of Uechi-Ryu Shubukan Association in Europe and France. The seminar will take place on 3rd and 4th of December 2016 in Larçay, at Salle François Mitterrand. The training is open to children and adults.
Fulvio Zilioli Sensei, chief instructor of Okikukai Italy is leading one more seminar this November in the city of Rome. The seminar will be held in "Palestra del Liceo Scientifico - Francesco D'Assisi" in 12 and 13 of November 2016 and it has the support of Italian Karate Federation - FIK. The sessions will include Uechi-Ryu Karate and Kenryo Ryukyu Kobudo training.
The seminar took place in the facilities of Rosehill Community Centre and was divided into 8 training sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, starting on Thursday the 15th up to Sunday the 18th of September 2016. Okinawan masters had the chance to experience the local hospitality and visited many wonderful sights. They even had the chance to visit and dine at Christ Church main hall (maybe the most prestigious college in the world), aka the Harry Potter Restaurant, the very same room where many of the scenes of the famous cinema series Harry Potter were shot.
UechiRyu.eu salutes the wonderful event and congratulates Uechi-Ryu GB Association on taking this great responsibility to organize and bring all these great masters and the knowledge they carry, straight from Okinawa, the birthplace of Karate.