2025 Seiwakai in Daisen and JKF Gojukai in Sendai – Seminars & Competition By Johnpaul Williams – Seiwakai Karate Silicon Valley Gojūkan Our Menlo Park travelers returned from the annual summer expedition to Japan! We participated in the weeklong seminar in the Omagari Daisen region of Akita and continued onward
May / June 2025 SKSV Grading (Shinsa) Results By Johnpaul Williams – June 4, 2025 Karate is a journey with obstacles and setbacks, goals and milestones. Fortunately, Karate training also builds tenacity, mental pliability and fortitude. Congratulation to those who successfully graded. Club certificates are not preprinted in anticipation however are created
The Interplay of Ki (気) & Konjō (根性) in Martial Arts Philosophy All Gojuryu Network (www.gojuryu.network) & SKSV (Gojuryu.net) cross-post By Johnpaul Williams - Feb 6, 2024 Konjō (根性) as a concept, a demeanor, a theory or emotional state, could easily be a subject of a thesis standing alone. The
JKF Gojukai Newsletter (Kaihoshi) December 2023 (Japanese only) All Gojuryu Network (www.gojuryu.network) & SKSV (Gojuryu.net) cross-post By Johnpaul Williams – December 24, 2023 In the summer of 2023, we attended the 49th JKF Gojukai Taikai in Osaka Japan. The events and results of the convention and competition are reported in the semi-annual JKF Gojukai Newsletter which
Return to Japan 2023 Week TWO All Gojuryu Network (www.gojuryu.network) & SKSV (Gojuryu.net) cross-post By Johnpaul Williams – August 21, 2023 Continued from Return to Japan 2023 Week ONE August 16th, 2023 - Wednesday: Travel and Rest. Today marked a travel and rest day, although I use the term "rest" loosely. After a final breakfast at
Return to Japan 2023 Week ONE All Gojuryu Network (www.gojuryu.network) & SKSV (Gojuryu.net) cross-post By Johnpaul Williams – August 07, 2023 August 7th, 2023 - Monday: En Route to Narita Airport. As I begin this first entry, I find myself mid-flight on Japan Airlines, en route to Narita Airport. Despite some minor turbulence causing the
Leo Lipinski interviews Tasaki Shūji – Gōjūryū Karatedō Legends We originally published this interview to www.gojuryu.net in 2002 however Leo Lipinski Shihan had conducted the interview some years before in 1987. We would like to disseminate the original publication now as there seems to have been many modifications via re-syndication
