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We have been established for 40 years in the UK and you can visit our Archive to view the many activities and social events that have taken place during this time.
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Lymington Dojo workshop - March 2012
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2012 Workshops
Sunday May 27th 2012
All Welcome
Prices
Members £10
Non-members £20
To be held at Lymington Dojo
2.00pm - 6.00pm
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At the March Workshop
We began with stances – their width, their length and their height and the difference between them in kata and kumite and a simple method of establishing this exactly.
We moved on to the dynamics of movement – in a push push method for going forward in nanamedachi and zenkutsudachi and a push settle method for nekoashidachi and a push rotate method for shikudachi. In each case, it was interesting to see how much ‘telegraphing’ was going on – right across the grades – instead of one movement from point to point – there were many prior to movement.
In kata this would count as an additional movement and in kumite it would negate the attack.
