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Congratulation Buzz Durkin!

It has been my honor to have participated in many anniversaries, tournaments and celebratory events during my many years as a martial art participant. None have come close to the annual black belt presentations and celebrations that Buzz Durkin has created and hosted over the 40 years he has taught Uechi-ryu in New Hampshire. I …

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5th Uechi-ryu World

5th Uechi Ryu World Cup Official Invitation To All Uechi Ryu Karate Do Practitioners and Masters Dear Sensei, Through this letter, I have the pleasure to invite you and through you to all instructors and students to participate in the Championships called: “5th  Uechi Ryu World Cup” The last World Cup was in 2012 in …

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IUKF Canada

IUKF Canada As this is the very first IUKF Canada newsletter, I want to take this opportunity to welcome all of you and thank you for supporting this fledgling Canadian Uechi-ryu organization. I’m sure that I’m only iterating what most of you know, but there are a number of Uechi dojo spread across Canada and I …

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Perfect Gift – for all Martial Artist

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Fall Regional Workout

            The IUKF sponsored Fall Regional Workout was held In Middletown, Rhode Island this passed Saturday hosted by Sensei James Nuzzo.  Sensei Jim was a student of the late Sensei Charles Earl who was an early student of Sensei George Mattson when our original dojo was still on Columbus Ave, …

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Congratulation Buzz Durkin!5th Uechi-ryu WorldIUKF CanadaPerfect Gift – for all Martial ArtistFall Regional Workout

Jan 25 2009

How to Become an Editor

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January 25, 2009

Any registered member may write article for submission

for our website.

 

How do you submit your article?

 

1. First, you must be a registered member of this “uechi-ryu.com” site. If you are not and would like to join, please click on the “create an account” link at the bottom of the left frame.

2.  In order to become an “Editor”. . . which is necessary in order to submit articles that will be published here, you must send the site administrator (me) an e-mail with your name, and your uechi-ryu.com registration name. (This is a different registration than the one found on the Eastern Arts’ Forums.)

3, Once I get this registration information I will upgrade your registration I.D. to “Editor” status. I’ll send you an e-mail at that time, letting you know your editor status has been upgraded.

4. Whenever you log-on to the Uechi-ryu.com site, be sure to log-in with your registration i.d. and password. You can “check” the box, requesting that your browser log you in automatically.

5. In the User Menu, click Article Submissions”. to write and publish your article.

7. You can write your article within your browser window or you can write in using an editing software program such as MS Office “word”; copying and pasting to the browser editing window once your article has been published.

8. Follow the simple instructions for publishing your article. If you have any questions, just contact me and I’ll help you complete the task.

 

What kind of articles are we looking for? Obviously it would be best if there were some relationship to the martial art field generally or Uechi-ryu specifically, but our readers are interested in just about any subject. Be sure your title and description accurately describes the subject matter. No profanity, obscene pictures either. 

Regards,

George Mattson

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Jan 25 2009

Sue & George’s New Dog

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January 25, 2009

2700 Mile Dog Rescue

Herman & Bally

Losing Tia was a devastating and heartbreaking experience for Susan and me.  She was part of the family for nearly 15 years and as any dog owner will tell you, “putting down” a pet is traumatic.  Since being together, Susan and I have shared three amazing and lovable dogs.  Herman was the first; a pit bull — standard poodle mix, Bally; a purebred “old family red” pit-bull and of course Tia, another purebred pit bull.

All three dogs were outgoing, friendly and poster dogs for the pit-bull breed.  They were healthy, independent, strong willed and loyal friends to their owners.  It is a shame that the breed has become better known for its indomitable fighting spirit and competitive nature that can be easily be abused by their human owners than for the breed’s positive features.  Faced with increasing public condemnation and potential legal problems associated with the breed, Susan and I decided that our next dog would not be a “bully”.

Susan had been doing a lot of research on different dogs and decided for a number of reasons that a Wheaten Terrier would be our next dog.  We both agreed that we would try to find one in a rescue facility. After many weeks of searching, Susan finally found a candidate she fell in love with after seeing his picture and reading the description penned by the person who found him wandering around and living off his 2500 acre farm near Manhattan, Kansas.



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Jan 24 2009

TigerMartialArts

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January 24, 2009

HI!

 

Hope your new year is starting out Wonderfully!

 

I just wanted to share some awesome news!  We expanded the dojo by over 800 square feet and renovated the entire thing!  If you go to our website – www.tigermartialarts.info and go to the pictures page you will see the stages of the renovation.  We are almost complete.  I don’t have pictures of the murals that I have done yet – those pictures will go up when we have completed the whole thing.

 

The community was huge in this!  The project that would have cost – $20,000 ended up costing $10,000 through donations from various construction companies.  And through a bake sale and demonstration at the local high school we hope to cut that cost even more.


Have a Fantastic Day!

 

Wendi
Tiger Martial Arts
(360)331-5619
www.tigermartialarts.info

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Jan 15 2009

Shugyo Training Camp 2009

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January 15, 2009

Dear Respected teachers,

I’m sending this email to you as a quick note that our annual Shugyo Training Camp will be June 5-7th, 2009.  I know last year there was some double bookings of events from all the different associations.  I hope this will give all teachers/groups a good enough heads up so they can plan their activities accordingly.

A formal invitation is in the works, but I wanted to at least get the word out to you as soon as I could.  If any of you have any questions as to the camp please don’t hesitate to write or call.  Our good friend Fedele has been a wonderful supporter of our camp over the years and we would love to see more of you wonderful teachers and students this summer.  I know there has been the perception that our camp is only for those that eat and spit nails and that only the strongest will survive.  I apologize if that is the perception and that is what has discouraged more participation in what we hope is a great camp for all.  We firmly believe in training hard…. But also training smart.  We believe that our camp is for all ages and abilities.  It is for those that want to push themselves and work hard.  My favorite attendee every year is my student Richard who is 65, with one fake hip, should and knee and has recently recovered from a near death motorcycle accident.  He pushes him self to where he knows he can and still get to work on Monday.  Strong spirit… but also strong mind…. He trains hard, but also SMART!

All my best,

Andrew Moores

Andrew E. Moores

Director of Training

Atlantic Karate Training Center

603-964-1555

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Jan 11 2009

Welcome to the IUKF article section

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January 11, 2009

Any member of IUKF may write article for submission

for this “members only” section.

 

How do you submit your article?

 

1. First, you must be a member of IUKF. If you are not and would like to join, please go to THIS SITE and follow the instructions. IUKF is an independently run organization, with a board of directors consisting of hard working volunteers who are practitioners of Uechi-ryu and members of IUKF.

2. You must be a registered member of this “uechi-ryu.com” website. 

3, In order to become an “Editor”. . . which is necessary in order to submit articles that will be published here, you must send the site administrator (me) an e-mail with your name, IUKF member number and your uechi-ryu.com registration name. (This is a different registration than the one found on the Eastern Arts’ Forums.)

4. Once I get this registration information I will upgrade your registration I.D. to “Editor” status. I’ll send you an e-mail at that time, letting you know your editor status has been upgraded.

5. Whenever you log-on to the Uechi-ryu.com site, be sure to log-in with your registration i.d. and password. You can “check” the box, requesting that your browser log you in automatically.

6. In the Main Menu, click “Uechi-ryu Community”, then “IUKF Related”. As an editor, you should be able to see a category called “IUKF Article Submissions”. Click on it to write and publish your article.

7. You can write your article within your browser window or you can write in using an editing software program such as MS Office “word”; copying and pasting to the browser editing window once your article has been published.

8. Follow the simple instructions for publishing your article. If you have any questions, just contact me and I’ll help you complete the task.

 

What kind of articles are we looking for? Obviously it would be best if there were some relationship to the martial art field generally or Uechi-ryu specifically, but our readers are interested in just about any subject. Be sure your title and description accurately describes the subject matter. No profanity, obscene pictures either. 

Regards,

George Mattson

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Jan 11 2009

BART shooting: Cause Unknown

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January 11, 2009

 

 The recent shooting by the BART police in Oakland California raises many difficult questions which profoundly effect police and community relations.

I was called by the San Francisco Chronicle a few days after the event, as news reporters scrambled to turn out as much information as possible. Several videos were captured of a police officer shooting a subject to death. Because the BART police were refusing to speak about the incident the news media turned to the “experts”, and asked a variety of sources to weigh in on the video which captured a BART police officer shooting a 22 year old man in the back.

Whenever someone from the news calls, there is a moment of pause that always comes over me. I see my role and reputation as a police expert mostly established by the relationships I have within the tight-nit police community. I think to be viewed as an expert, and one worthy of the claim, you have to be anointed through your hard work and accepted by the police as credible. To understand policing, you have to be on the inside, train with them, and contribute in some way to the advancement of your proclaimed area of expertise.

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Jan 08 2009

Good Advice. . .

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January 8, 2009

A “Keeper” for 2009

I get lots of newsletters from all kinds of individuals selling all kinds of products and services. The one newsletter that I read very carefully is from Terry Bryan. Although Terry is a very successful and famous martial art teacher, most of his advice pertains to martial art qualities that have nothing at all to do with fighting or self-defense. Hope you find his latest offering as helpful and timely as I did. G.E.M.

 

With all the negativity in the market place, I thought it was important to discuss the mindset of prosperity for the New Year. With all the negativity it is important that we stick together and focus on making 2009 a good and prosperous year. Each and every one of us is going to have challenges but remember the past is the past and all we have control over is the future.

The other day I spent a hour on the phone with Lee Milteer and we were discussing what is working and what people are having problems with in the Dan Kennedy inner circle and surprisingly the main issue was some of them had lost focus. She sent me an article that I have modified to help you focus on your goals.

We get what we think about, like the red car scenario, where when you buy a new red car they seem to appear everywhere but before you owned one you never saw one. If you focus your mental energy on prosperity with laser beam focus you will see opportunities everywhere, however if you focus on the doom and gloom that the media is pushing then that is what you will see.

 

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Jan 06 2009

Uechi-ryu & “Real” Fighting

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January 6, 2009

Illustration by Keith Seidel

So You Wanna be a “Real” fighter!

OK. . . in my last editorial, I shocked many by stating “if you really want to learn how to fight, I don’t recommend that you try to accomplish it at a Uechi dojo or any other martial art dojo!”

So, if you want to be a fighter and you are willing to put the time into this effort, what is my recommendation?

1. First I believe you should get into superb physical condition. You may as well begin to accomplish your goal of becoming a fighter at the same time. . . my recommendation is that you empty your bank account and say goodby to your family for a couple years. . . then sign-on in one of the many legitimate training camps where UFC champions train.

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Jan 04 2009

50th Anniversary SummerFest Masters’ Celebration

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SummerFest, The Uechi Community

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January 4, 2009

Here is a segment of the “Masters’ Celebration ceremony, conduted during the 2008 Martial Art SummerFest:

Low image resolution clip (last half of celebration ceremony):

Higher resolution clip of Mattson performing Sanseiryu

 

Thanks to the Board of Directors for helping organize and coordinate the 2008 Masters Celebration and to John Page for doing his usual great job as MC.

 

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Jan 01 2009

“Reality” check from George Mattson’s “Swamp” dojo!

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January 1, 2009

“Reality” check from George Mattson’s “Swamp” dojo!

I’m going to tackle a subject that I’ve covered many times in the past.  Although most of my students and many of my associates clearly understand my position on the subject, others continue to hammer away blissfully, shadowboxing with words and rallying enthusiastically against a foe that only exists in their minds.

What exactly is the problem that eats away at them so that at every opportunity they must spend so much time ranting on and on and on how the traditional Uechi dojo are corrupting the minds and bodies of their students with excessive, obsolete and harmful drills, exercises, kata (that they don’t like) and how dojo that actually have students are endangering these students’ lives by teaching Uechi-ryu in a manner that these “guardians” of the “correct” system dislike!

Uechi-ryu, like most sports has evolved since the early 1900s. What sport hasn’t? Unlike other sports, Uechi-ryu was a very effective system of self defense instead of a competitive activity. It was also based on ancient Chinese folk-art that purported to pass on to the student other benefits:

1.        Was a healthful activity

2.       Came with a moral code of ethics and conduct

3.       Was not something to be taught to bullies or criminals.

4.       Was to be used only in self-defense

5.       Was to be transmitted in a careful manner as to not hurt students

6.       Was not to be misused in a boastful manner (Don’t “showoff”)

When Kanei Uechi agreed to let Tomoyose Sensei teach me Uechi-ryu, he made me promise to introduce Uechi-ryu to people outside of Okinawa and to teach it as I learned it.

I interpreted this promise to mean teaching the system’s core values, since Uechi Sensei added material to the basic system and in subsequent visits to Okinawa, I came to realized that the system was quite adaptable to fit the needs of changing times, environments and individuals. Unlike my early attempts to make every student a carbon copy of me, I realized that teaching Uechi-ryu was itself an art. . . being able to adapt a physical art to fulfill the requirements of as many people as possible. . . not just those who had my stamina, build, abilities and motivation. With the new tools of the art that I picked up on subsequent trips, I was able to create a program that worked for nearly everyone who shared a commonality of incentive for seeking out my dojo and wanting to learn karate.

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