I’ve just had a sneak preview of a new Shotokan Hoodie:
A couple of Karateka have made something for themselves and I think it’s good enough to share.
I recently interviewed Gerry Breeze about his Shotokan karate history, and his views on the current state of karate in the UK.
I intend to do a few articles on some of the Shotokan men and women who were such an integral part of the history and development of Shotokan in the UK.
Have been asked to give my views on modern day shotokan karate. It’s my view that 75% of clubs are a sham. These days there are so many different types of fight clubs, such as MMA, sport karate etc that people want a quick fix and this has had an effect on traditional shotokan.
Wellington said, “No plan survives contact with the enemy”. He knew, through bitter experience that in battle all the careful, detailed and intricate tactics seldom came to pass when the enemy was engaged. We refer to the ‘chaos’ of war and “the fog of war” - Carl Von Clausewitz (from his treatise ‘On War’).
I recently received an e-mail from a guy in Australia, telling me in no uncertain terms that I was ‘a dinosaur’ and needed to ‘move with the times’