Ki-Shin-Tai Dojo and Sensei Thomas Podzelny announced their upcoming seminar with two great Okinawan Masters. Sensei Katsuji Tamayose (9th Dan) and Sensei Kazuya Takara (7th Dan) will lead the seminar which will take place in Erlangen, Germany from Thursday 2nd until Sunday 5th of October. The seminar will be open for all Uechi Ryu practitioners regardless of line, affiliation or rank.
Dear Karateka,
we are glad to welcome Katsuji Tamayose Sensei and Kazuya Takara Sensei from Okinawa - the homeland of karate - in Germany for the first time. A great opportunity for everybody who cannot affort a travel to Okinawa to study traditional karate directly under these two great masters. With this event we also celebrate our 15 years dojo anniversary. The seminar is open to everybody regardless of style, affiliation or rank.
The organization team is looking forward to an intensive, exciting and instructive seminar together with you.
THE MASTERS:
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Katsuji Tamayose Sensei was born in 1954 and started karate as a youth at the age of 15. His teacher was the late grandmaster Kanei Uechi. Today he runs his own dojo at Ginowan/Okinawa. In june 2014 he received his 9th Dan and the title of Hanshi. With 45 years of experience Tamayose Sensei is still exploring the origins of Uechi Ryu when the founder Kanbun Uechi was living and studying in China, expecially 'Kou Nan Jizai', which means always to be ready for both soft and hard movement ('Kou Nan' - soft and hard, 'Jizai' - able to do always). For him the purpose of karate practice is physical well-being and inner peace. Tamayose Sensei was elected as the current president of our association in june 2014. |
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Kazuya Takara Sensei was born in 1959 as a son of Shintoku Takara 10th Dan, the present grandmaster of our association. He started practicing karate in 1973 at age 14 under his father and also was a student of grandmaster Kanei Uechi from 1982. Up to now, he has kept respecting both Kanei Uechi Sensei and Shintoku Takara Sensei as his teachers. In 2005 he opened his own dojo in Futenma/Okinawa and was promoted to Kyoshi 7th Dan in 2009. Takara Sensei has been a very successful competitor. - Okikukai Karate-Do Championship: Kumite 1st place 4 times, Kata 1st place 3 times - All Okinawa Karate-Do Championship: Kumite 1st place in 1997, 2nd in 1998, 3rd in 1991 and 1994 - 1990 World Uchinanchu Championship: Kumite 2nd place - 1990 1st Okinawa Martial Arts Festival: Kumite 2nd place - 1999 1st Okinawa Traditional Karate and Kobudo World Championship: Individual Kata 2nd, Team Kata 1st place He is also coaching junior contestants for tournaments as an official coach. - 2012 Okinawa Junior High School Karate-Do Tournament: Team Kumite 1st place, Team Kata 1st place (then dispatched those students to the All Japan Junior High School Karate-Do Tournament) - 2014 Okinawa Youth Karate-Do Championship: Boy’s individual Kumite 1st and 2nd place Kazuya Takara Sensei is always striving hard with his mission of passing down Karate-Do correctly, which both Kanei Uechi Sensei and Shintoku Takara Sensei have been thinking as one of the important parts of Okinawan culture. He also would like to contribute spreading karate more in the world. He told us to be glad to practice together with friends in Germany. |
DATE:
Thu Oct 2nd ~ Sun Oct 5th
ORGANIZER:
Ki-Shin-Tai Dojo Erlangen, Thomas Podzelny
LOCATION: Erlangen/Germany
arrival and seminar thursday, welcome party, overnight accomodation wen/thu/fri:
DOJO 1: Ki-Shin-Tai Dojo, Am Schwabachgrund 22, 91054 Buckenhof (close to Erlangen)
seminar from friday morning, overnight accomodation fri/sat/sun/mon:
DOJO 2: Aikido-Dojo of TB Erlangen, Helene-Richter-Str. 1, 91054 Erlangen
Free overnight accomodation with sleepingbag in the dojo is possible. Participants may arrive wednesday and depart monday.
For directions please have a look at maps.google.com, nearest airport is Nuremberg, please contact us for airport transfer.
SEMINAR FEE:
With registration (email) and payment (bank transfer) before September 15th, 2014, you will get a reduced price:
full seminar 160,00 € (students 120,00 €), half day 32,00 € (students 24,00 €). After that date the entire seminar fee will be 200,00 € (students 150,00 €), half day 40,00 € (students 30,00 €).
Name of bank: Sparkasse Erlangen,
Depositor: Thomas Podzelny
BIC: BYLADEM1ERH
IBAN: DE15763500001060068108
Reference: "Uechiryu Germany 2014"
Contact info:
Sensei Thomas Podzelny,
email:
tel:+49 177 7755117
Facebook Event
download official invitation:
http://www.ki-shin-tai.de/seminar/uechiryu_2014.pdf
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