Sensei Mattson’s seminar in Chicago at the end of March gave all of us the opportunity to go back to the essentials of Uechi Ryu Karate. Karate-Do, the path of the empty hand…path of the open hand. Based on this concept, Sensei Mattson, through his teachings and example, showed us that Karate-Do is essentially a …
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Mar 30 2004
What I learned at the Chicago Seminar By Jami Kahn
I want to thank Sensei Mattson for coming to Chicago. I really liked the seminar. Even though I am only 8 years old, and most of the people in the seminar were adults, I also learned a lot. One of the things I learned is: don’t pop your knee up when you are doing a …
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Mar 30 2004
What I learned at the Chicago Seminar by Corey Diamond
Dear Sensei Mattson: I would first like to thank you for the wonderful seminar that you did for us two weekends ago. It still amazes me that almost one man started Uechi-ryu in the USA only at the age of 18! The things that you taught me will greatly help me with my karate. The …
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Mar 30 2004
Pete Nason’s Essay
Dear Sensei Mattson, I’d like to begin by first thanking you for your visit to Chicago to conduct the Friday night Dan testing, as well as the two day seminar. The lessons learned are indeed invaluable, and have truly shed new light on aspects of Uechi that mustn’t ever be overlooked or forgotten. Such aspects …
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Mar 30 2004
Peter A. Papoutsis’ Essay regarding the Chicago Seminars
Dear Mr. Mattson: First, let me say that I truly enjoyed the two days of Uechi-Ryu seminars that you provided to us here in Chicago. Your knowledge and years of experience are greatly appriciated. Second, in response to your request to write down our thoughts on what we learned at the seminars, I would like …
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Mar 30 2004
Essay on Mr. George Mattson’s Chicago seminar 2004.
Presented by Kenji Higashi 1470 Cypress Ave. Hanover Park IL. 60133 Sensei Mattson. Mr. George Mattson’s special training session was held in Chicago from March 26 to March 28, 2004. I met him on March 27 for the first time. He is one of the first Americans to learn Uechi-Ryu Karate …
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Nov 24 2003
Enhanced Training With Kyu Kumite and Dan Kumite
By Ethan B. Miller Among the discussions that commonly come up about Kyu and Dan Kumite is the effectiveness of the kumites as tools for training towards real confrontations. Sometimes the commentary seems to negate the worthiness of these drills entirely. This seems to me to be completely wrong-headed. If you take a commonsense approach …
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Nov 23 2003
Ideas For Nukite Training
By Ethan Miller Nukite training, or spearhand training is probably one of the more underestimated strikes in Uechi-Ryu and other styles of Karate. In sparring it’s generally not permitted or adaptable, while it becomes more accessible to the advanced user it appears to commonly become a grey area in usefulness. I had often downplayed its’ …
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Nov 15 2003
Five Weapons of Uechi-Ryu’s Hiraken Strike
By Ethan Miller, nidan While testing for my shodan test in 1994 one of the questions I was asked by the test board was to name a strike that was being shown. It was the hiraken, and I was then asked to explain how it was used. After I did this, I of course wondered. …
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Sep 08 2003
Hand Strike Training
by Ethan Miller Many people use the heavy bag for practicing hand strikes. I generally do about 100 strikes left, right with a seiken fist, then do combinations in threes also with a seiken fist. I will then usually practice shuto left and right on the edge of the bag and boshiken strikes to the …
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