Archive for June, 2008

WKA Championships in Orlando

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Even though I made the WKA Canada team this year, I’m only qualified for one event which is Soft style forms.  I’m waiting to hear word whether I could go down to the WKA championships in Orlando in November but for a shorter stay.  Most competitors have to stay for a 7 night package which I think is excessive especially if the competition is only three days, not including two extra days if one makes it to the finals.  There would be a lot of down time in Orlando for sure if I paid and stayed for 7 nights.

I would rather stay for say 4 nights since like many others, I’ve been to Orlando many times and would rather not spend extra time there than I have to.  If they decide that I must stay for the entire week, there’s only a 50-50 chance that I may go to Orlando for the WKA event this year.
I have other opportunities to compete (WOMAA for example) so WKA is not my only international competition option.  I would like to represent Canada whenever I can but only if they don’t make things difficult.
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Japanese Kata Ready

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Okay, I have switched my choice of Japanese kata for the upcoming WOMAA world championships in August.  I am now ready to do a version of seunchin.  I chose to move over to this kata from the previous gojoshiho because this particular form does not have any kicks which suits me fine due to my inability to straighten my legs out well from the ACL surgeries I had.

The weapons forms are coming along but much work still has to be done to revamp my Chinese form.  After all these years, I still like the variety of doing both hard style and soft style forms.
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New Karate Kata Forms For WOMAA Event

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I will have some new karate kata forms for the WOMAA event back in Ireland for August. For the Japanese traditional forms division, I will be doing a version of seunchin rather than gojushiho which has been my main form over the last few years. Seunchin has no kicks which suit me just fine since I still can’t do decent hard style straight kicks post knee surgery.

Also working on enhancing my karate bo staff form for the event.

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More Kids Martial Arts T-Shirts Coming In July

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Since we sold out all of our Martial Arts t-shirts with the Martial Arts For Life design in kids sizes, we have ordered some more and will get more stock in July. So stay tuned to this blog as we announce their arrive closer to the end of the month. Then you will be able to order a beautiful Martial Arts T-shirt especially for that little warrior of yours.

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