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Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

Hi, I’m Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

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The Art of Self-Motivation

Unleash Your Inner Samurai: The Art of Self-Motivation. Do you want to be successful and happy? An easy question with a simple agreed-upon answer: YES! Then what are you doing ...

Yoshitaka Funakoshi’s Shotokan

Yoshitaka "Gigo" Funakoshi was born in Okinawa in 1906. Already from childhood, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which was also the cause of his death in 1945. Yoshitaka began his ...

My interpretation: Gedan-barai

This article is about an alternative approach to the basic block Gedan-barai. The well-known basic use of Gedan-barai. Everybody knows that one, so no further comments unless you have some! ...