Karate Praticants Forum

[ippolito]

hI
I WISH TO CREATE A GROUP OF KARATE PRATICTIONERS
ACTUALLY I AM GODAN IN WADO RYU KARATE AND I LIVE IN ROME
I HAVE FRIENDS IN JAPAN AND I HOPE IN NOVEMBER TO COME IN TOKYO
WITH A GROUP OF KARATE SENSEI THAT WILL JOIN A SEMINAR WITH HIGH RANK JAPANESE SENSEI.
I VISITED THE DAITO JUKU FEDERATION OFFICES IN TOKYO AND I WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT MARTIAL ARTS IN A MAGAZINE "SAMURAI ".
SO YOU ARE WELCOM TO WRITE YOUR MESSAGE, ABOUT YOU AND
YOUR STYLES AS TO EXCHANGE EXPIRENCES STORIES
ABOUT YOUR DOJO YOUR SENSEI ETC.
I JUST CAME BACK FRON TOKYO AND HAVE SOMETING TO WRITE ABOUT
HOPE TO READ MANY MESSAGES
IPPOLITO

 

[Tamashii]

hI
I WISH TO CREATE A GROUP OF KARATE PRATICTIONERS
ACTUALLY I AM GODAN IN WADO RYU KARATE AND I LIVE IN ROME
I HAVE FRIENDS IN JAPAN AND I HOPE IN NOVEMBER TO COME IN TOKYO
WITH A GROUP OF KARATE SENSEI THAT WILL JOIN A SEMINAR WITH HIGH RANK JAPANESE SENSEI.
I VISITED THE DAITO JUKU FEDERATION OFFICES IN TOKYO AND I WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT MARTIAL ARTS IN A MAGAZINE "SAMURAI".
SO YOU ARE WELCOM TO WRITE YOUR MESSAGE, ABOUT YOU AND
YOUR STYLES AS TO EXCHANGE EXPIRENCES STORIES
ABOUT YOUR DOJO YOUR SENSEI ETC.
I JUST CAME BACK FRON TOKYO AND HAVE SOMETING TO WRITE ABOUT
HOPE TO READ MANY MESSAGES
IPPOLITO

Hi there,

I am a practitioner of Shito Ryu karate-do and have been involved with martial arts many years. My hope is to converse and meet others who share serious interest in Japanese and Okinawan martial arts, culture, philososphy and language. I would like to join your forum.

Tamashii

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Welcome to JREF !

Once you get settled in, you might want to send Ippolito a private message. I don't think he checks in on JREF too often nowdays. I'm sure he would like to talk with you, he's a great guy(very friendly and great English).

Uncle Frank

 

[ippolito]

Welcome
I learned Itotsu Roai Shito style...it is a nice kata good for
tournements..
in November I took a group of 27 back belts in Tokyo to train
in a Wado ryu dojo, it was an interesting experience..
have you been in Okinawa ?
oss

Hi there,
I am a practitioner of Shito Ryu karate-do and have been involved with martial arts many years. My hope is to converse and meet others who share serious interest in Japanese and Okinawan martial arts, culture, philososphy and language. I would like to join your forum.
Tamashii

 

[nice gaijin]

I practiced Shorin Ryu back home, but here I've joined a Wado circle at my school. It's quite fun and they're very strict about form, which has been very helpful. It's been a great experience studying here, and I've made good friends as well.

 

[ippolito]

I practiced Shorin Ryu back home, but here I've joined a Wado circle at my school. It's quite fun and they're very strict about form, which has been very helpful. It's been a great experience studying here, and I've made good friends as well.

Welcome on board.....
If you wish I can give you a name of a good Sensei 7th dan in Wado
that has 2 dojos in Tokyo.
I also have a jp friend that is 1st dan in Wado that lives not far from Ikebukuro....
I have visited the Mas Oyama Sensei museum in the Kyoukushinkay
Hombu dojo in Ikebukuro and interviewed his daugther for an italian
martial atrs magazine.
bye

 

[nice gaijin]

Wow that would be great, if only just to watch. I still need a lot of work before I could approach more than an ichidan without embarrassment. Are you planning any future trips to Japan?

 

[ippolito]

Wow that would be great, if only just to watch. I still need a lot of work before I could approach more than an ichidan without embarrassment. Are you planning any future trips to Japan?

No for this year
as Kobayashi sensei has 2 dojos in different areas
i will let you know the locations...as youcan see which is neare to you
I remember that I have spent more the 1 hour of metro fron shinjuku
I will keep you informed
bye

 

[Yatiii]

I am a new member in Karate & I'm still a white belt. hahaha. but I'm loving it!!! xD

 

[ippolito]

welcome

hello
nice you enjoy us an karate....I love all martial arts but in particolarry
karate as I have been practiced for 37 years....
I have meet a lot of important Senseis japanese and not....
I hope you will continue and reach a good level...
which is the style that are you learning?
Will you be so kind to describe some martial arts that have the origin
in Brunei?
I do not know much about you country sorry.....perhaps
you can help me to know better Brunei
( I just know that the king of Brunei is one of the reachest man in the world).
oss

 

[Hageshisa]

hey another italian!
I'm from Napoli(Naples for non-italians), and I'm nidan in shotokan; I go often to Japan but unfortunely I've never joined a japanese dojo because of my lack of time. I've been praticising in Napoli for over 10 years and I've been under the guide of Domenico Maurino(the father of Lucio), I'm sure you know him. Do you write for samurai magazine?

 

[ippolito]

shotokan

Welcome
I think I have seen something about your Sensei, but I do not know him
personally.
I knew many years ago mﾂ≫?ｹ Lombardi of Shotokan he was teaching in Naples with Mucibello, but many years ago.
It is a shame that you could not train in a small traditional
japanese dojo, completely different thatn our big gyms with music
dietitic bar, sauan etc......
in the dojo I went there is only tatami, a small small office, a small small
changing room and the smallesr bathroom you can image, no showers
and nothing else.
on the walls the are the names of the pupils printed in the wood
all the dojo is in wood.
But you appreciate (as you practice karate) the atmosphere....
" a buon intenditor poche parole" an there you practice a rea martial art
bases on a serious and costant training, education, respect for your sensei,
for all others, it is important the you grow in karate always in good heatlth, wich (Toyama Sensei words) it is more important than
tournaments, agonism etc....
I hope that in may issue of Samurai there will be pubblished my article
about my visit in Tokyo to Toyama Sensei, who tooked Wado ryu in Italy
in the 60's....
ciao

 

[ippolito]

Kyokushinkai

I forgot to write you that on Samurai of march there is my article
about my interview to Kuristina Oyama , soke Mas Oyama
of the Kyoukushinkai..daughter..I visited his dojo in Ikebukuro, there is a small musem
about soke Oyama history, and I saw the dojo where many
full contact karate have been fighting....