"Karate Ni Sente Nashi"

Tekki Shodan

Picture credit to Shihan Andre Bertel, a fine technician of Shotokan Karate and longtime student of the late Master Tetsuhiko Asai (pictured).

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Tekki Nidan

Picture credit to Shihan Andre Bertel, a fine technician of Shotokan Karate and longtime student of the late Master Tetsuhiko Asai (pictured).

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Tekki Sandan

Picture credit to Shihan Andre Bertel, a fine technician of Shotokan Karate and longtime student of the late Master Tetsuhiko Asai (pictured).

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My sensei, Hanshi M.A. Sharifi.

Taken at the old dojo of the Shotokan Karate Institute.

Shotokan Master Hirokazu Kanazawa, founder of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation (SKIF)

Black Belt Magazine May 1987

Shotokan Karate Master Hidetaka Nishiyama on the cover of Black Belt Magazine, December 1986

Master Hidetaka Nishiyama in Black Belt Magazine, April 1993

Diagram of karate techniques

Sensei Nishyama (pictured left) blocks Sensei Teruyuki Okazaki’s jodan kekomi, while preparing for a counter attack.

The Dojo Kun lays the rules for karate-ka to abide by. But are the principles of the Dojo Kun unique to karate? I wrote a post pondering this subject :

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Knuckle pushups at 70+ years old. This reminds me to not be lazy.

Hanshi Sharifi and some of his top students. In the top right picture (left to right): David Ebrahemi, Sensei Madjid Shamsahmar, and Sensei Gholam Shirpanjeh.

Tekki Shodan. I’m trying to figure out how old I was in this pic…..