More pictures from the tournament 4/26/2008

Scott Kingsbury's practice on Monday (5/5/2008) was excellent. Not only did I enjoy it and learn a lot - thanks for all the matches and advice! - I really enjoyed seeing Hiroko laugh so much. She was really getting into the eye-hand coordination practice, and her laugh was so infectious that she had most of the rest of t

I thoroughly enjoyed Scott’s practice tonight. Wow, we learned a lot from him. He is a dojo leader of Westside Shotokan, another SKA dojo in town. He was one of my teachers when I started training at SKA Redding Dojo (then leader: Godan Ken Osborne) in November, 1985.

In this week's Hot News, Nidan Scott Kingsbury will lead a jiyu-kumite practice at Sun Oaks tonight (5/5/2008) at 6:40pm. It's too bad that Jun hurt his foot two weekends ago at the Central Coast Tournament. He's not supposed to practice for a couple more weeks, according to the docs, but I

Jun Nakamiya - Central Coast Tournament White Belt Champion!

Well, we're off to the Central Coast Tournament today! The tournament is an SKA qualifying tournament for the famous SKA-sponsored Nisei Week tournament. No, I don't have Nisei Week championship aspirations. I'm just participating for the experience. » r

Congratulations to all the kyu test participants! The test was last night during the regular class period. We had 14 students testing, including two each from West Side Shotokan (Scott Kingsbury) and Shasta College (Dallas Adams).

There is something that I am truly happy with and proud of at our dojo these days. Our karate classes are filled with enthusiastic young (and old) people! We sometimes have 16+ students. Most of them are white belts. Our dojo used to be top-heavy for a long time, and had almost no steady young white belts for years. I fe

A few days ago, our most-senior godan (fifth-degree black belt), Daniel Chemla, passed away. Let us not deceive ourselves, we are all mortal; however, it seems Daniel was taken from us too early. Four years ago, Daniel suffered a debilitating stroke, leaving his once-fantastic physical abilities only the stuff of

The sad news of godan Daniel Chemla's death came suddenly from godan Jim Sagawa. He died on March 20, 2008 at his home, surrounded by family and old friends. My sincere condolences to his family.   Dear Daniel, » read