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Traditional Okinawan Karate in Edmonton

International Okinawan Shōrin-ryū Seibukan Karate-dō Association

国際沖縄少林流聖武館空手道協会

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After being away for a summer of outdoor classes, we're back in our regular, beautiful space in Strathcona High School.

An excerpt from a short video from Mitsubishi which conveys the spirit of our dojo.

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Lucy, one of our instructors, on Toguchi Beach in Okinawa

Training in Okinawa, March 2024

The head of Seibukan karate worldwide, Shimabukuro Hanshi, is unequivocal that it is necessary for Seibukan karateka to go to Okinawa:

Karate is from Okinawa, so you must go back to Okinawa and see what we do; every karate technique you must correct in Okinawa. Make sure you visit your sensei and feel all Okinawan people. 

Please visit Okinawa, to feel traditional Okinawan karate, and eat Okinawan food and breathe Okinawan air. Many things you have to experience in Okinawa.

Heeding Hanshi's direction, in March three senior members of our dojo traveled to Okinawa to train there for almost five weeks. 

It was marvelous, exhausting, illuminating. Here's a taste of what we experienced (move the cursor over an image for explanatory text; click  to expand text; click on the arrows to navigate instead of using the automatic slide show).

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