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10-October-2006
It is with great pleasure that the International Budo Institute brings to the attention of its visitors the news of the awarding of 9th Dan to Kyoshi Myron Lubitsch founder of the Shinzen Kyokai.The award ceremony was completed at the gathering of the 20th Anniversary Shizen Kyokai tournament in Queens, New York on Sunday, October 8th, 2006.
The awarding of the 9th Dan is in recognition of Kyoshi Lubitsch tireless efforts over many years to bring together Shorinjiryu practitioners from around the world in an atmosphere of sharing and brotherhood along with his many other accomplishments.
Please join us in congratulating Kyoshi Lubitsch and we wish him continued success both with the Shizen and with his personal life.
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Level of Difficulty: 7th Kyu and Above - Yellow/Orange Belt
The Renshu series of Yakusoku Kumite are taught to the advanced beginner Budoka after they have consolidated the basic techniques and material at the white belt level. Renshu Kumite Ichi and Ni are generally taught when the student is learning their second Kata, namely Nijushiho.
Both Nijushiho Kata and the Renshu Kumites focus on very light techniques performed from a Cat Stance. Whereas the Naihanchin Kata and Gohono Kumites focus on long lateral movements, this level of study focuses on fast circular techniques, particularly in escaping. Both Nijushiho and the Renshu Kumites reinforce this perspective. In this regard, this level can be seen as very Shorinjiryu in nature as the student is learning to move quickly on their feet, a characteristic of all Shorinjiryu systems.
The Renshu Kumite(s) are intermediate level kumites by nature, as shown by the video below. They focus on developing the previous basic techniques into more fluid steps that have greater speed and swifter movement.
Naturally as with all the other material determination and perseverence will pay off and help the student to consolidate the knowledge contained within these exercises.
At this level of study the step-by-step nature of kumite practice should be disappearing and a more harmonious flow should be developing. If the student feels that the swifter movement is not developing then they might want to go back to the earlier material and focus again and review their basic stances and movements. Without a strong understanding of the basic stances further development will be hindered.
Below you see Shihan Henderson and Shihan York performing Renshu Ichi kumite including the proper entrance along with the proper bowing form. Notice that both the formal bow and fighting bow are performed. Also notice that there is an offensive and defensive side to the kumite, as with all kumites, and that the offensive side (Shihan York) moves forward while the defensive side (Shihan Henderson) moves back. At the end of the Kumite, the footing is reversed so that the players are positioned roughly in the same position from where they began. This is an important element in the correct performance of Kumite practice. Also notice that the Kumite starts off in a Cat Stance whereas the earlier Gohono Kumites began with the Horse Stance.
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Renshu Ichi Kumite
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25-Sept-06
As many of you may have noticed, the default video standard now being used on the site has changed from Windows video file to Quicktime. This change has simply been performed so that the playing of the video files will be seemless across all browser types and platforms. So no matter if you have a PC or Mac or perfer Firefox over Explorer or Safari our videos will automatically play on your system - as long as you have the Quicktime plug-in installed. (Most of you already do).
Over the next months each page that includes a video file will be updated. Needless to say, if you are a big windows fan or Pocket PC user the file formats will still be supported along with naturally the video i-Pod format.
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Level of Difficulty: 10th Kyu and Above - White Belt
The Gohono series of Yakusoku Kumite are taught to the novice Budoka immediately after they have learnt the basic techniques and generally when they are learning their first Kata. At The International Budo Institute the first Kata is Naihanchin Bubishido. So along with that Kata students would also learn Gohono Ichi Kumite, Gohono Ni Kumite and possibily Gohono San Kumite or a combination thereof.
The Gohono Kumite(s) are very basic, as shown by the video, however at the beginner's level the emphasis is in learning to connect the basic moves into a more dynamic flow of techniques as well as learn the basics of timing and distance. Naturally, when you only have a few months of training in Budo these can be difficult things to master.
However, like all things determination and perseverence will pay off and help the student to consolidate the knowledge contained within these exercises. A word of caution is important. Once you start with Kumite you must realize that it is a dynamic exercise between two willing particiants and as such both give their acknowledgement to practice together by forming the formal and fighting bow after each rotation. The bowing form is very important to maintain civility and etiquette.
Another word of caution, especially for all the beginners, is that Kumite is an EXERCISE. Many students tend to erroneously focus too much on the lack of realism, as the exercises are contrived. This is normal - all exercises are contrived. So get beyond that issue and start to enjoy the flow of the exercise so that you can focus on the real lesson to be learnt: timing and distance.
Below you see Shihan Henderson and Shihan York performing Gohono Ni kumite including the proper entrance along with the proper bowing form. Notice that both the formal bow and fighting bow are performed. Also notice that there is an offensive and defensive side to the kumite and that the offensive side (Shihan Henderson) moves forward while the defensive side (Shihan York) moves back. At the end of the Kumite, the footing is reversed so that the players are positioned roughly in the same position from where they began. This is an important element in the correct performance of Kumite practice.
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Gohono Ni Kumite
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As mentioned in an earlier post, The International Budo Institute is making the Basics Manual a free download. Only a minimal $5.00 fee for bandwidth for downloading is applied. You can download the basics manual at our sister site The Budo Store at www.i-Budo.com
Now you can have the over 200 page colour manual including videos free for your Budo library. This manual accounts for hundreds and hundreds of hours of effort by Shihan Henderson, Shihan York and Sensei Kukura and now is yours for free. At The International Budo Institute we want to do everything we can to help support the Budo community, especially those who are trying to start their new studies.
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Progress comes to those who train and train;
Reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, The Founder of Aikido |
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