Showing posts with label Freiburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freiburg. Show all posts

Friday, 27 April 2012

Karate Dôjô Freiburg: am Montag, 30.04.2012, und am Dienstag, 01.05.2012, findet kein Training statt!!!

Karate Dôjô Freiburg: am Montag, 30.04.2012, und am Dienstag, 01.05.2012, findet kein Training statt. Die Halle ist Geschlossen.

Ab Mittwoch, dem 02.05.2012, geht Training wieder.

Karate Dôjô Freiburg: on Monday, 30.04.2012, and on Tuesday, 01.05.2012, there is no training. The gym is closed.

From Wednesday, 02.05.2012, Training starts again.

Karate Dôjô Freiburg: в понедельник, 30.04.2012, и во вторник, 01.05.2012, тренировок не будет. Зал закрыт.

Со среды, 02.05.2012, тренировки продолжаются по обычному расписанию.

Monday, 6 February 2012

Kata Training am Freitag - Kata training on Friday - Тренировка по ката в пятницу: 10.02.2012, 20 Uhr, Freiburg dôjô (Merianschule‏)

Thema des Kata Training am Freitag, 10.02.2012, um 20 Uhr (Merianschule): "Bunkai, ôyô, henka, kakushi". Osu!

Topic of Kata training on Friday, 10.02.2012, at 20:00 (Merianschule): "Bunkai, ôyô, henka, kakushi". Osu!

Тема тренировки по ката в пятницу, 10.02.2012, в 20:00 (Merianschule): "Bunkai, ôyô, henka, kakushi". Осу!

Osu! News, perspectives and schedule

Osu! I sincerely hope that the karate year 2012 has started successfully for everyone!

One of our family traditions is to train on December 31st and on January 1st. This tradition follows my own tradition and is gladly supported by my husband. On December 31st, 2011, my husband and I have practiced lot of yakusoku kumite and jiyû kumite. Then each of us has chosen a kata to perform. Sergey has performed Gankaku twice, and I have chosen my tokui kata: Nijû Shi Hô and Sôchin. In the morning of January 1st, 2012, we have practiced all Heian kata. Therefore, I think that we have done a good transition from the karate year 2011 to the karate year 2012.

I have spent the end of December and the whole January in my native city of Novosibirsk. My personal training in January was devoted to two things: 1) increasing the speed of some technique combinations, 2) Gojû Shi Ho Shô and Gojû Shi Ho Dai. I believe that studying Gojû Shi Ho kata should be started from Shô variant, then moving to Dai variant. But this is the topic of a separate post.

My current training schedule: I train on all days except Saturday either in the Freiburg dôjô or in Tora Jo dôjô (my home dôjô).

My current teaching schedule:

Wednesday:
  20:00-21:30 - training for all belts, shared with Matthias.

Thursday:
  19:30-21:00 - beginners course

Friday:
  18:30-20:00 - kyû grades training, shared with Alex. Officially up to 4th kyû, but higher belts are also always welcome!
  20:00-21:30 - Ryôzanpaku Tiger's kata training for senior belts. Recommended from 5th kyû.

The general schedule of the Freiburg dôjô can be found here: Training schedule of the Freiburg dôjô

Saturday, 1 October 2011

New course in Freiburg dôjô: November 8, 2011

P.S. I teach on Thursdays. Ich unterrichte an Donnerstagen. Я преподаю по четвергам.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Osu! (News and perspectives)

First of all, I sincerely apologize for a long silence. Since August I have been travelling a lot.

In the first week of August my husband and I went to Herford (NRW) and participated in Gasshuku 2011. One of my personal highlights of this Gasshuku was the keiko on Sôchin kata by Julian Chees Sensei. Sôchin is currently one of my tokui katas together with Nijû Shi Ho. On August 5th I successfully graded to sandan (3rd degree black belt). Osu!

The same day we returned to Freiburg and on the next day we went to one of my favorite places on this planet - town of Mandelieu-la-Napoule. I love Mediterranean sea! We had some great outdoor trainings there with the emphasis on Kankû Dai.

After being back to Freiburg I travelled to my native city of Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok to be more precise), where I enjoy my staying right now.

My kata training was included into the regular schedule. It had to be started already, but another teacher will run the training till I will be back. So, Friday, 20:00, kata training!

Kata is a very powerful training device, but only if you know how to use it. Bunkai and oyo are going to be the core parts of the training. As always I have a training plan already, but if someone wants to perfect his/her kata for an upcoming grading, then he/she is welcome to let me know. A training plan should never be stiff, but should adapt to the needs of the moment.

But I would like to emphasis the following: kata training should not be limited to the training in the dojo only. It is not enough to learn a kata once in the dojo and then do nothing till the next training. So, please practice yourself, try to remember the techniques and important points.

When I will be back to Freiburg and have access to our home library I will write here more posts about katas in a way I used to write: additional information and some notes.

I will publish an update on my personal teaching schedule later, when all the details will be clear. The general training schedule of the Freiburg dôjô can be found in the Training schedule section of the blog.