I can't say that I heard anything about students being suspended for taking martail arts. I think that there are alot of unnessary suspenssions in schools these days. When I was in school I recall getting into a fight or two or three in front of the main office, the princeipal would come out watch f...

I have always liked the idea of meditation while profoming kata. I try to take it one step further and often meditate, I veiw myself doing the kata with perfection, the hope is that my mind will one day help correct the flaws my body and feet make. I also invision fights in my mind, and my reaction ...

Thanks for the spelling Laird, and it hurts most when I forget my cup

Thankyou all,

I studied Butokukan karta (tanks for the spelling) in the lower main-land (B.C.), under Canadian master Joe Surelumbus(SP), also his brother Harry, and many other sensei's of the area.


Amos

I would also like to send a thank you out to "Uglyelk". Thanks Laird for setting up the Banff school, and teaching me to bang.

Hello everyone, I am a new student to Uechi-Ryu, and this web site. I have traind in martail arts for most of my life. Starting when I was nine I begain with Butocokan karata (thats not spelled right), at sixteen I left and wondered around for almost a decade learning what I could from people I met ...

Hey Laird,

Only been training in Banff and in Uechi-Ryu for about thirty hours or so. After years of studing from people I meet throu travel I am happy to have found a style and school that I can call mine.
Hoping others pass throu from other schools, and people who want to bang.