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Patrick McCarthy and the IRKRS Seminars
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes..."
Marcel Proust
| Patrick McCarthy has rediscovered lost practices contained within ancestral and classical kata and successfully systematized these findings into comprehensive study/practice modules. They're easy to learn and guaranteed to help improve your skills, and your style, too, and without negatively affecting your existing curricula---only enhancing it. The HAPV-theory and its corresponding two-person drill practices are the most imitated teaching methods used by seminar instructors today and have been assisting thousands of karate students and teachers around the world for more than a decade. Our seminars offer an intelligent yet informal way of learning ... why wait any longer contact bujin@koryu-uchinadi.com "By 1985, twenty years of training in traditional martial arts [TMA] had left me rather frustrated by its rule-bound practices, inflexible rituals and cultural ambiguity. It wasn’t that I disliked TMA or wanted to leave it but I could no longer accept its modern interpretation of ritualized practices [i.e. kata, hyung, xing – classical choreographed routines/forms/patterns]. Consequently, I began to search for a teacher, a style, or even an organization that could teach me the original and more functional combative application practices in a rational, coherent and systematized manner. Specifically, I was looking for someone who could - #1.Use realistic acts of physical violence as a contextual premise from which to improve my skills rather than continue to depend upon the rule-bound reverse punch scenarios, etc. #2. Teach prescribed, yet practical/functional, defensive templates through which the original habitual acts of physical violence could be recreated and effectively negotiated. #3. Reveal how such prescribed templates [i.e. the mnemonic rituals which make up the classically choreographed routines] not only culminated the lessons already imparted but, when linked together, clearly offered something greater than the sum total of their individual parts. #4. Clearly identify and demonstrate where these prescribed mnemonics exist in the classical-based choreographed routines [handed down in TMA] and how they’re linked back to the habitual acts of physical violence. While there was certainly no shortage of excellent practitioners everywhere I looked, I found no trace of such teachings anywhere in Patrick McCarthy is pre-eminent in our field. Pioneer is a perfect description of his considerable status and accomplishments. I think he is at the pinnacle of karate research, practice and dissemination. Apart from our friendship, I can say quite dispassionately that Karate would still be 'fumbling' in the dark were it not for his exceptional work. Where does he get the energy? " - Nathan J. Johnson Back to: Main Menu | DVDs and Books | Membership 16 Jan: Adelaide: Shotokan Kata - Application Practises with KU Renshi Jason Griffiths c/o Chris Gillies samartialartsnewsletter@gmail.com
17 Jan: Adelaide: KU Nyumon Material with KU Renshi Jason Griffiths c/o Chris Gillies samartialartsnewsletter@gmail.com
16/17 Jan: Hyvinkää with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Roy Hursti roy.hursti@shudokan.fi 13/14 Feb: Helsinki with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Jyrki Innanen jyrki.innanen@nsn.com 18 Feb: Wynnum c/o Rene Roggeveen March.roggeveen@optusnet.com.au
6 Mar: Kauniainen with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Tiina Airola-Siponmaa tiina.airola-siponmaa@hotmail.com 6 Mar: Tielt [Belgium] -KU Kansetsu Waza c/o Ludovic De Cuypere ludovic.decuypere@ugent.be 17-21 March 2010 Brisbane IRKRS So-honbu dojo KU International gasshuku c/o bujin@koryu-uchinadi.com 18 Mar: Wynnum c/o Rene Roggeveen March.roggeveen@optusnet.com.au 20 Mar: Kauniainen with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Tiina Airola-Siponmaa tiina.airola-siponmaa@hotmail.com
3 April 2010, Varsenare (Brugge) KU Drills at the Open Budo Day with Ludovic De Cupere c/o Hans Balcaen info@fightingspirit.be 10 Apr: Espoo with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Ante Brännbacka ante@koryu-uchinadi.fi
17/18 Apr: Hyvinkää with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Roy Hursti roy.hursti@shudokan.fi
22 Apr: Brisbane so-honbu dojo with Avi Nardia c/o Patrick McCarthy bujin@koryu-uchinadi.com
27/29 April [Russia] Kaliningrad with Patrick McCarthy c/o Sasha Gendrikson gojuryu@ruko.koenig.ru
1/2 May [Denmark] Copenhagen with Patrick McCarthy c/o Jim R Sindt jim@koryu.dk 4/9 May [Ireland] Galway/Monahagn with Patrick McCarthy c/o IRKRS Ireland damienwalker@yahoo.co.uk 21/23 May: Helsinki with Renshi Ante Brannbacka c/o Jyrki Innanen jyrki.innanen@nsn.com 29/30 May [Germany] Hassloch with Patrick McCarthy c/o Bernd Otterstätter eotterstaetter@t-online.de 1 June [England] Newton Abbot with Patrick McCarthy c/o John Burke KeikoKarate@aol.com 15/16 June [Sweden] Stockholm with Patrick McCarthy c/o Mats Lilja mats.lilja@goju.nu 18 June [USA] Middle Island NY c/o Jerry Figgiani figgco@aol.com 19/20 June [USA] Brooklyn, NY c/o Tommy Casale jskausa@aol.com 25-27 June [CDN] Vancouver, BC c/o Don Shapland kobudogu@shaw.ca 3/4 July [CDN] Georgetown c/o Tony Rampulla tony@sigsolutions.com 5 July: [CDN] Hamilton, ON c/o Chris DiLiberto comcan@cogeco.ca 7/8 July [CDN] Toronto, ON c/o Cezar Borkowski hanshinks@yahoo.com 9/11 July [CDN] Toronto, ON c/o Brian & Helen Sakamoto hcsakamoto@rogers.com 12 July [CDN] Toronto, ON c/o Alex Atkinson alexatkinson1@gmail.com
14-18 July [USA] Rochester, NY c/o John Ingallina ingallina@gmail.com 23-25 July [USA] Detroit, MI c/o Sensei John Wasilina c/o butokusensei@gmail.com 30 July/1 Aug [USA] Boston, MA c/o Mark Donohoe MDonohoe@tiholdings.com 4-8 Aug [USA] Londonderry, NH c/o Ken & Mandy Aikiyama ken@karatenh.com 13-15 Aug [USA] Sewell, NJ c/o Paul Lopresti phooey3587@aol.com 28 Aug 10 Adelaide: Seiunchin Kata (Goju) - Application Practises with KU Renshi Jason Griffiths c/o Shawn Donaldson combatdefence@gmail.com
29 Aug 2010, Adelaide: KU Nyumon Material - with KU Renshi Jason Griffiths c/o Shawn Donaldson combatdefence@gmail.com 25-29 Aug [USA] Cape Coral, FL c/o Nick DePaolo nick.depaolo@gmail.com 4/5 Sept West Virginia [USA] c/o Robert Zingg rzingg@email.com
17-19 Sept 2010 - New Zeland KU Gasshuku with Hanshi McCarthy, c/o Shihan Steve McLellan & Sensei Phil Beale Kobukan.martialarts@gmail.com
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