{"id":2943,"date":"2022-09-14T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T23:06:48","slug":"drawing-not-drowning-from-the-well-of-karate-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Drawing (not\u00a0drowning) from the Well of Karate-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are very pleased with the attitude and progress being made by all of our members, especially the beginner white and blue belts who started over the past year – our \u201cpost-pandemic\u201d generation of trainees. \u00a0The intent of HISKF, is to offer a weekly serving of karate-do that, over time, allows busy families in our community pick up a decent understanding of Shotokan Karate-Do, its values, traditions, techniques, and culture while improving their strength, flexibility and balance. \u00a0I liken it to drinking several glasses of water a day to keep hydrated and stay healthy. \u00a0This low-key regimen can be very beneficial when practiced over a period of years. \u00a0By contrast, when your senseis were young, I\u2019d say our training regimen was more like \u201cdrinking water out of a firehose\u201d, haha. \u00a0Typically, we\u2019d be training at the University Karate Kai several times a week, and we might also be found at the Pearl City Dojo, the Main Dojo, and as brown\/black belts, at the late-night Special Training Unit. \u00a0Sure, we were crazy for karate – but we were also on a compressed timetable and knew that we\u2019d be leaving the university for our professional careers in just several years. \u00a0Sensei Wayne started in the fall of 1969, Sensei Peter began (along with me) in the fall of 1970, I then paused and restarted for good in the fall of 1971. \u00a0We were focused on reaching our black belts before we left the university (Sensei Peter and I were also due to be commissioned in the Air Force in 1974). \u00a0As they say, \u201cFailure was not an option.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The UHKK had a notorious fallout rate due to its rather harsh training regimen, fashioned after the training found in JKA university clubs back in Japan. \u00a0As a result, the great majority of young collegians who joined the UHKK quit or graduated long before ever making it to the higher ranks. \u00a0The UHKK became the KAH\u2019s best club and its black belts became the core of the Special Training Unit. \u00a0Sensei Funakoshi was a strict instructor and examiner but fortunately, each of your sensei\u2019s actually did well enough to skip rank multiple times and all of us successfully achieved our shodans by the time we graduated in 1974. \u00a0It was a good thing too; as young black belts a couple of years later, Sensei Wayne was teaching at a dojo in Oregon, Sensei Peter was teaching at a dojo in Michigan, and I was teaching at a dojo in California. Today, despite the passage of over fifty years, we continue to draw from the well of Karate-Do that HISKF members also \u201csip\u201d from. \u00a0Drink up everybody!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are very pleased with the attitude and progress being made by all of our members, especially the beginner white and blue belts who started over the past year – our \u201cpost-pandemic\u201d generation of trainees. \u00a0The intent of HISKF, is to offer a weekly serving of karate-do that, over time, allows busy families in our community pick up a decent understanding of Shotokan Karate-Do, its values, traditions, techniques, and culture while improving their strength, flexibility and balance. \u00a0I liken it to drinking several glasses of water a day to keep hydrated and stay healthy. \u00a0This low-key regimen can be very beneficial when practiced over a period of years. \u00a0By contrast, when your senseis were young, I\u2019d say our training regimen was more like \u201cdrinking water out of a firehose\u201d, haha. \u00a0Typically, we\u2019d be training at the University Karate Kai several times a week, and we might also be found at the Pearl City Dojo, the Main Dojo, and as brown\/black belts, at the late-night Special Training Unit. \u00a0Sure, we were crazy for karate – but we were also on a compressed timetable and knew that we\u2019d be leaving the university for our professional careers in just several years. \u00a0Sensei Wayne [...]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiskarate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}