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Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

Hi, I’m Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

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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! ...

Three levels of bunkai

Bunkai means "to break down", and thus describes the whole process that lies in breaking down and understanding the application of the techniques in a Kata; we simply peel a ...

The word Kime

I have been digging into the use of the word "Kime". Most Karate people know the word, and most likely the meaning of it. At least they know what their ...