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Maryborough Karate Club

Locality: Maryborough, Victoria

Phone: +61 427 003 331

Address: 90 Napier Street, Girl Guides Hall 3465 Maryborough, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Well done all. A great way to finish a most difficult year. See you all early in 2021. gambatte!

25.01.2022 A reminder that training officially resumes this Tuesday. This video shows Grand Master Soken who taught both our current Grand Masters, Kise Fusei and Kise Isao. The Kata Gojushiho is introduced at 4 th Dan level.

20.01.2022 This television item went to air during Hanshi sei’s first visit to Australia. It shows former Ballarat Chief Instructor John Crebbin performing ad lib with our Grand Master. Today Grand Master Fusei Kise recognises our Maryborough Club as authorised to teach his system and use his image. Our Ballarat Kendo Club colleagues still train at the same facility featured in the report.

19.01.2022 http://www.allokinawakarate.com/kaichos-korner-matsumura-s/ Our Kaicho explains some of the misconceptions about our style of Karate. It provides some insight into his rich background of study under Grand Master Soken, Hanshi Sei (his father) and others.

17.01.2022 We missed Sonomi Sensei’s second visit this year which would have been happening about now if not for the pandemic. Thankfully with travel restrictions easing 2021 promises to be a big year.

17.01.2022 https://docs.google.com//1LiTi7UllRwPcJgvMsXZqzpaoLD/edit Josh Curtis trains in the USA under Sensei Steve Apsega. This is a copy of his written requirement for Shodan. Well done Josh and Sensei Steve.

15.01.2022 Regretfully tomorrow night's training will be our last until the State Government restrictions are lifted. If you can make it along please do before we go back into lockdown mode. This photo is of our grand master's sensei, Hohan Soken taken circa 1971 on Okinawa courtesy of Sensei Ted Lange.

15.01.2022 This week l again enjoyed zoom training with our colleagues in the USA. Apart from my regular mornings with Hanshi Jeff Ader l enjoyed a great training with Sensei Nathan Batson ( seen here with Kaicho at the Hombu So in Okinawa). Thank you again to both gentlemen and the friends who joined in. We are covering a lot of the syllabus!

14.01.2022 This is just one of many songs our Penny has recorded. So glad you are part of our small collective!

14.01.2022 Great news today with no new cases in the Ballarat area. However training will be via zoom classes until stage three lockdown is lifted. Photo of Gary Oliver and Rod Hilton as it appeared in the Ballarat Courier in 1975.

13.01.2022 First official training for 2021 is this Tuesday for all members who can make it along. 6.30 start.

13.01.2022 Sensei Greg Stevens was fortunate to have trained under Grand Master Hohan Soken. He still teaches and trains in the Matsumura Seito in Australia. Thanks Greg!

12.01.2022 What a great week! Thanks to zoom l was able to train in Colorado, Maryborough, Texas and Okinawa. My thanks to Shari for hosting us in Colorado, Bridget in Texas and Sara and Hanshi Sei on Okinawa. My special thanks to Sensei Norbert Wild for his insights into Nitan Bo Kata. We are so fortunate.

11.01.2022 R.I.P Sean Connery

11.01.2022 A good night’s training tonight in Maryborough

09.01.2022 A colleague in the USA sent me this video. It shows the late O Sensei Hohan Soken (1889 - 1982) performing a special Kata early in the 1970s. Mr Soken was the teacher of our current grand Masters Hanshi sei Fusei Kise and Kaicho Isao Kise. Its a glimpse of a time long gone.

08.01.2022 This photo was taken circa 1971. it shows Grand Master Soken with retired USA serviceman, Sensei Ted Lange. Sensei Lange introduced the Shorin Ryu Matsumura Seito style to Australia about then.

04.01.2022 The value of karate as physical training may easily be demonstrated by scientific tests, and even after a year or less of practice, one can easily see for himse...lf the tremendous improvement in his condition over its state before karate training. My esteemed teachers, the late masters Shishu (in Japanese, Itosu) and Azato, were both very weak in their childhood, but after starting to train in karate as ameans ofimproving their health, they developed so much that they seemed like difIerent people compared to their old selves and lived to become famous, in our times, as old masters. Master Shishu lived to the venerable age of eighty- five,and Azato to that of eighty. Master Azato's own-teacher, Master Matsumura, lived to be over ninety years of age. Other contemporary karate experts such as Masters Yamaguchi, Aragake, Chibana, Nakazato, Yahiku, Tokashiki, Sakihara, and Chinen, have all lived to be over eighty. These examples are indicative of the role of karate as a superior method ofmaintaining one's health.....Gichin Funakoshi

03.01.2022 https://youtu.be/aeHWtpIQC84 This video of our Grand Master appeared on a television network in Japan quite some time ago. today he is still actively teaching our style on the same military bases on Okinawa to USA servicemen and women.

03.01.2022 I received this message from Kaicho and Grand Master. they asked me to share it with all our Australian members. Best wishes all.

03.01.2022 An extremely rare photo of Grand Master Hohan Soken performing in Argentina. Photo courtesy of Sensei Norm Small from Sensei Nishihira's collection.

01.01.2022 Thankyou Marcus Sempai for organising today's zoom class. We were honoured to have Sensei Wayne Williamson, Gary's original teacher in Brisbane as a guest as well as Sensei Nathan Batson in Texas. In addition Sara in Okinawa joined us as did old friend Samantha. Sara is training under Grand Master Fusei Kise on one of the U.S. bases.