A nice Gala of martial arts, presenting Aikido and Uechi-ryu, will be held on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 19:30
The program will include demonstrations of techniques, applications and tamashiwari and the entrance will be
free to the public.
Important info:
Venue: Gym "Les pierres vives"
Address: Rue des Alouettes, 78420, Carrières-sur-Seine, France
More information:
Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do Association Europe organized the Winter internship of Uechi-Ryu headed by Yukinobu SHIMABUKURO sensei, 8th Dan, Top Graded Japanese official representative of Uechi-Ryu Soke for Europe and assisted Didier LORHO, 5th dan Uechi-Ryu. The event took place in Saturday February 15, 2014 and Sunday, February 16, 2014 at the Gymnasium "The Vives Stones" , Rue des Alouettes, Careers sur Seine 78420.
Enbukai in Serbian Military Academy was in frame of the traditional Karate competition. It was also continuation of the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Uechi-ryu in Serbia. Senseis Popovic Vladimir (7 Dan Kyoshi) and Dimitrieski Milan (6 Dan Renshi) provided a strong Uechi Ryu Karate demonstration, which was also broadcasted two time on most popular sport TV "Chanel SoS."
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A great event took place last Saturday, 17th of October in Belgrade Serbia at Sumice Sports Cener. Sensei Popovic Vladimir, head of Serbia Okikukai with the cooperation of the OKIKUKAI Sanchin Dojo (Belgrade) and OKIKUKAI Novi Sad Dojo, OKIKUKAI Kisić Dojo and Dojos of Kragujevac, Prokuplje, Pecinci and Lebane organized the 1st Memorial for Takamiyagi Shigeru Sensei's passing last year. Sensei Takamiyagi was one of the supreme advisors of Serbian Okikukai, in the past had visited the country serveral times for seminars, teaching and spreading Uechi-Ryu. He has been a mentor to many Uechi-Ryu practitioners in Balkan and European area and will be greatly missed.
Representatives from 9 countries participated in the demonstrations.
– SERBIA
• OKIKUKAI SERBIA HOMBU DOJO:
Popovic Vladimir, Zakic Tatjana, Djordjevic Vladimir, Panajotov Milos & Jelic Stefan;
• OKIKUKAI SANCHIN DOJO:
Dimitrieski Milan, Koncar Miloc, and team of juniors (Dimitrieski Stefan, Petrovic Andreja, Todorovic Filip, Dimitrieski Elena, Mijailovic Vukasin & Spasic Ognjen);
• OKIKUKAI NOVI SAD DOJO:
Gobeljic Vuk, Maric Luka, Petkovic Sara, Djuric Marko, Starinac Vuk, Celic Aleksandra, Raljic Milos and Mijat Tomislav;
• OKIKUKAI PROKUPLJE DOJO: Vlahovic Dusan, и
• OKIKUKAI ZRENJANIN: Protić Zoran
– GREECE
• OKIKUKAI HELLAS HOMBU DOJO& ARGO DOJO:
Grigoris Michail, Tzounis Antonis, Theodoridis Nikos and Arivantopulos Kostas.
– REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
• OKIKUKAI ZMAJ DOJO- ZVORNIK: Kukolj Triso.
– CROATIA
• OKIKUKAI KARLOVAC DOJO: Bjelivuk Daniel and Matijevic Goran.
– RUSSIA
• OKIKUKAI MOSCOW DOJO: Nabatnikov Mikhail.
– UKRAINE
• OKIKUKAI KYIV DOJO: Afanasiev Ruslan.
– REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
• OKIKUKAI VELES DOJO:
Videvski Bore, Levkov Levko, Murzdev Vlado and Cvetic Irena.
– ITALY
• OKIKUKAI MILAN:
Tirindelli Anna, Palombo Gaetano, Mulas Cezare and Carreri Stefano.
– AUSTRIA
• OKIKUKAI LIEZEN: Vlacic Radoslav.
Announcement on Okikukai Serbia Web Site: http://www.okikukai.org.rs/1-Takamiyagi-Anniversary_e.html
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As described in our previous article, Okikukai Serbia Hombu and its affiliated dojos both in Serbia and abroad, organized, under the guidance of Sensei Popovic, a very successful event for the one year from the passing of Master Shigeru Takamiyagi. The event was videotaped, edited and Sensei Popovic came up with a series of 3 excellent videos last week. You can watch them, as long as many other historical videos on Okikukai Serbia Hombu Youtube Chanel.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
The event in Okinawa, organized by Chatan Dojo: