04/12/2021
When I spoke with Itokazu Sensei a couple weeks ago, he mentioned to me that he'd like to see more Shinbukai material out on the web. "You'd like me to post more videos?" I asked him. "Yes, I see all this other stuff out there, and I wonder, where are all my Shinbukai students?" he responded. So, we will post vids from time to time going forward to share what we are working on in the dojo with Sensei and with, well, The World. We are so excited to be able to get together indoors now to train together, even if it is behind masks, and I hope you will also enjoy watching snippets of our training.
We've only had a few sessions back together since we reopened the dojo, but doing kata together and training the bunkai felt like getting back on a bike!
Shushi no kun kata is being done by Barbara, Garrett, Lavi, Maelo and me. We are very sad to be losing Maelo as he moves to Chicago, but very excited that he will be opening a new Shinbukai branch there. We have high expectations for Maelo, who is a great martial artist and person.
Shushi no kun bunkai is done by Barbara and Garrett. For those who don't know, Barbara has been training Goju and Matayoshi Kobudo with me since 1992 (so, longer than we've been married!) and Garrett started training Matayoshi Kobudo with us in 1995. I'm grateful to have had two such great people and martial artists to train with all these years!!
Video credits to Robert Welsh!
