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Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

Hi, I’m Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

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The Pinan/Heian Kata

Itosu Anko created the Pinan Kata for use in the Okinawan Elementary School around 1900. The creation of the Pinan Kata was to make the introduction to Karate easier for ...

Application of Kata techniques

Kata was created to function in a perfect fight situation. Everything is predetermined. When we are attacked in a certain way, then we use a certain series of defensive techniques ...

My interpretation: Soto-uke

This article is about an alternative approach to the basic block Soto-uke. The well-known basic use of Soto-uke. Everybody knows that one, so no further comments. My interpretation: Soto-uke Soto-uke ...