My 1st Karate Seminar (Corinth, Greece).

[JohnnyB]

30th June and 1st July I'll be attending my first ever seminar hosted by SKIF Greece in Ksylokastro of Corinth (if anyone is nearby and willing!) at the town's enclosed gym and the instructors will be:

Sensei Toshio Yamada 8 dan (student of Shihan Kanazawa)

Sensei Nikitas Zarouchliotis 7 dan (my Sensei)

Sensei Keyvan Ghazi 7 dan

The seminar will include Dan gradings for Black Belts in the end of Sunday's training. I look forward to see this for the first time. Any advice you'd like to give?

(The cost of the seminar is 50 euro)

[DWx]

Sounds like it'll be a good event

I always make sure to take a notebook and write everything down in the breaks. Then I can refer back to it if I forget something.

[Dobbersky]

Sounds like it'll be a good event

I always make sure to take a notebook and write everything down in the breaks. Then I can refer back to it if I forget something.

Definitely a good idea, enjoy the event and if you have a "licence & grading" book with you to get the Shihan's to sign it on the courses attended page

[JohnnyB]

Good morning guys, I just came back from the seminar and wanted to share my experience.

The seminar was a huge success with more than 60 karatekas attending.

We had 4 sensei instructing in split groups and in those 2 days we did 3x1.5hour sessions and Dan examination after.

Sensei Toshio Yamada 8dan was amazing and I feel honoured to have trained with him. I was amazed by his excellence in technique but most of all the fact he favoured true karate in spite of sports karate. He taught my class lots of kihon that included enpi techniques and some basic kumite drills.

Summer break is on now and my dojo will open again in September so I have to do some home training to keep my skills honed.