Kin Shin Kai

07/10/2026

Great to be Back for Term 4 and working towards our upcoming 3 week grading review period.

It's excellent to see a general increase in intensity and sharpness in the group especially in those approaching their first Black Belt level.

The Black Belt class tonight traversed a content packed lesson ranging from knowledge of vital/vulnerable points, head /neck related throws/takedowns, the Haishu waza (close quarters tools of impact flow drill) including elbow, knees and headbutts, from hanshi Patrick McCarthy's KU (see photos), knife awareness / self defence select Superimpai kata and Gekisai kata self defense applications and our current Self Defense scenario of escaping a headlock.

It was great also to have some new students trying out and more are certainly welcome.
Bookings can be made on our website or call 0403 073 463 or pm myself, sensei George Ciechanowicz

17/09/2026

It was the final night of classes for term 3 last night and we mixed things up including the colour belts doing a more advanced kicking drill usually performed at Black Belt level and also had a final night of tournament sparring experience before we knuckle down next term to grading preparation.

Such an important part of Karate and life Is expressed by the Japanese as "Zanshin". it roughly translates to 'sustained focus' but is really better explained by the Zen Buddhist concept of being present / in the moment and not rushing ahead mentally to a next task which is so rightly popular these days and which is particularly read in the eyes. In this photo one of our youngest and smallest has a bucket load of it!

14/09/2026

Tonight was a proud moment for James Short and his family as he well earned and was awarded his shodan - Black Belt level.
In the time leading up to this James has been an excellent and dedicated student who really took on board a deep understanding of what we teach.
Pictured here with myself, shihan Mike Mules and sensei George Dixon who have all had a big hand in his progression.
A big congratulations on a big achievement James!

09/09/2026

Sensei Ais focussing on teaching roundhouse kick from beginner level to the very good.... Great kicking style!

04/09/2026

Sad news last night to hear of the untimely passing of sensei Wolfgang Vogel.
Sensei Vogel ‘Wolfie ‘ was a student of Hanshi Patrick McCarthy’s Koryu Uchinadi and he ran his Seaford Koryukan dojo very successfully in the southern suburbs of Melbourne.

I trained with him a number of times at Hanshi McCarthy’s seminars an found him to be an excellent and dedicated martial artist always keen to learn and develop and very down to earth and easy to be with socially.

He generously came up assist Hanshi McCarthy deliver a private seminar weekend to our Kin Shin Kai group in 2011 and is pictured in this instructor group photo from that weekend in the rear row on the far left. Vale Wolfie…

14/06/2026

We are proud of our multi ethnic membership and in this photo alone we have British, Hungarian, Indian, German, Polish, Italian, Singaporean, Irish, Scottish and of course, apart from our students visiting from overseas, we are also all very much Australian

14/06/2026

Grading review all done - wonderful for we instructors to see the general group improvement.

A big congratulations to all who did upgrade and looking forward to helping you to your next level of improved performance.

Anyone seeing this post who would like to join this great group of students pm me or book a free tryout on our Kin Shin Kai website.

10/06/2026

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Today would have been what would have been Ohtsuka Tadahiko (June 10 1940 – November 27 2012) o-sensei's 86th birthday.

In the spirit of keeping his memory and achievements and contributions alive I recorded the video linked below and also I am posting a seniors group photo taken when Ohtsuka sensei did a tour of Sydney & Melbourne in 1986.

In the video I thought I would share a couple of things, one of which regarding Tensho-Rokkishu kata may only have limited appeal but the other should be of real interest from any serious Karate-ka not already familiar with the Uechi ryu style breathing Ohtsuka sensei valued and talked about a number of times.

https://youtu.be/y5FqUFFjX6k

26/04/2026

Great to be back training for Term 2, week 2 coming up.

Welcome to new students and new students always welcome!

Grading review period commences in a few weeks!

18/04/2026