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International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Karate KobudoOrganization
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International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is full member of the International Kenshi Kai Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Kobudo Organization (IKO) and the Motobu Ha Shito Ryu Organization. The biographers of both lineages and their respective master are detailed below.
Tetsuhiro Hokama Sensei
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Hokama Sensei's Contributions To The Karate World
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- 9th Dan Goju-Ryu Karate and Kobudo. Calligraphy Master. Shiatsu instructor.
Author of many Karate, Kobudo books and videos. Technical adviser for the Japan Karate Kenkyukai Association. 1961 - Began training with Grandmaster Seiko Higa and Grandmaster Shinpo Matayoshi.
1974 - Director of the Okinawa High School Karate-do Association. 1984 - Published History of Okinawan Karate. Published Karate-do in schools. Represented Okinawa Karate in China and Okinawa Martial Arts exchange demonstration.
January 1987 - Founded the Okinawa Prefecture Karate and Kobudo Museum.
1989 - Chairman of the Okinawa Karate Gojuryu-kai.
1990 - Conducted a study of Chinese Kenpo (Shokakuken) in Taiwan.
· President - Nishihara Machi cultural Association.
1991 - Appointed researcher for Kobudo by the Okinawan Government.
1992 - Published a calligraphy book on Okinawan proverbs. Awarded a testimonial by the Okinawa Karate-do Association. Visited South Africa and first International Branch under Kenshi Kai Karate KobudoKai, Shihan Imtiaz Abdulla first westerner to be graded by Kaicho Hokama.
1993 - The Congress of The United States of America gave a Services award for Karate instruction. 1996 - Erected a monument to celebrate the birthplace of Karate.
1999 - A candidate to be nominated as an intangible cultural treasure person. 2001 - Currently working on a Karate textbook.
2002 - Appeared in The Learning Channel documentary "Ultimate Top Ten Martial Arts"
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Sensei in 1986 and the Family in 1966.
THE KOKUBA FAMILY OF OKINAWA
The Kanji character of Koku translates as "country.' and the character for Ba translates as “Place". The character Koku is pronounced as Koku in Okinawa and as Kuni in mainland Japan. The actual written form, in Kanji, is the same.
The Kokuba family traces their ancestry back almost 2,000 years and the charts to prove it are kept at the home of the head of the family, Koshu Kokuba who is the oldest male of the family line. He is also the former superintendent of the Okinawan School System. The family history goes back to Yoshitsune Minamoto who was the younger brother of Japan's first Shogun Minamoto Yoritomo who became Shogun in 1192. The younger brother was considered a threat to Yoritomo because he was a strong warrior. He was exiled from the court and fled south where his descendants eventually wound up in Okinawa. That is part of their family history.
The family was also part of the last royal family of Okinawa, the Sho Shi family. Soke and Shojin Nagamine are the only Okinawan martial arts masters who are directly related to the Okinawan royalty. Prior to World War II, there was a Kokuba village near the city of Naha. The family members who live there today can show you where the village was. Today, it is a part of the city of Naha. There is still the Kokuba river which flows through Naha. There was a Kokuba Castle which housed the ancestral swords and relics but it was destroyed by American bombs during the war.
Today, the Kokuba family is the most important family in Okinawa. One cousin was a member of the Japanese Congress, the Diet, for more than 30 years. His name was the same as Soke 's: Kosho Kokuba and he passed away recently. The family is one of the big Japanese conglomerates like Mitsubishi or Honda. They own over 400 companies and employ over 70,000 people in Okinawa alone. They also have business interests in other parts of Japan. They are involved in many industries, primarily shipping. In Naha, there are several large housing complexes called Kokuba Mansions and also several skyscraper buildings which are called Kokuba Buildings and house their business interests.
All males of the Kokuba family have as the first Kanji character of their name the character Ko which means happiness or good fortune. It can be read as Ko or as Yuki. Soke was given the name Kosho at birth and that can be pronounced as Yukitaka also. It sometimes causes confusion to Westerners. Kanji characters can be given a Chinese or Japanese reading and it often depends on the context of the sentence as to which way it is read. Some of Soke 's cousins are called Ko something and some are called Yuki something. To further confuse the issue, they also give children different names as they grow older. As a teenager, Soke was called Noboru-chan and his relatives in Okinawa still call him Noboru-chan because he spent many of his teen years there with them.
Soke 's mother's family was also of the samurai class. They are the Furugen family and all males in that side of the family have names that begin with the Kanji for So. Many of them are in real estate and they work together with the Kokuba family. One cousin Sotetsu Furugen was an aide to Shintaro Abe, the former finance minister of Japan who is one of the leading politicians of the Liberal Democratic Party which is Japan's ruling political party.
Soke Shogo was truly a Mass a young boy he 924 he left his of Fuji-Yoshida-Shi, one of the small town located at the foot of Japan’s awe inspiring Mount Fuji.
In 1940 Sensei Kokuba located in Osaka where he opened a business and also began formal teaching of the Okinawan Karate-Do of Founder Motobu. On June 6, 1943, Sensei Kokuba founded the Seishin Kan Dojo. He took the name partly from the kanji for the temple located at the end of the street where he lived, Shotennoji. The character Sho can be read as Sho or Sei and the meaning is “pure”. Sensei Kokuba believed that true Karate-Do comes from the heart, so he called his dojo - SEISHIN or “pure heart” Dojo.
During the difficult years of World War II, many of the Okinawan Karate men left their homeland. Most of them came to Osaka and visited the home of their old friend Sensei Kokuba. In return for room and board, these men often taught at the Seishin Kan Dojo and gave private lessons to Sensei Kokuba’s young son, Kosho. The Seishin Kan Dojo became a famous meeting place for budo men in Osaka and the training was with the men who are the founders of Karate-Do as it is taught in the world today.
Sensei Kokuba continued to teach in the style of Sensei Motobu and when Motobu died in 1947, Sensei Kokuba became the second Soke or “Family Head” of the Ryu-Kyu Motobu-Ha Karate-Do.
Born of the royal family and a samurai, Sensei Kokuba believed in the old traditions for samurai training. He trained his only son, Kosho, in the true samurai tradition. Sensei Kokuba continued to train and teach until he became ill in 1956. After his death in 1959, young Kosho became the third Soke of the Ryu-Kyu Motobu-Ha Karate-Do.
SHOGO HISTORY
Kosei Kokuba was born in Naha City, Okinawa in 1901, the youngest son of a samurai family descended from the Sho-Shi royal family of Okinawa. At the age of 14, he began karate training in the dojo of Motobu Choki. In 1924 he moved to Tokyo, Japan and in 1940 he settled in Osaka where he began training students in the Okinawan style which he had studied. On June 6, 1943 Kokuba founded the Seishin Kan Dojo.
Later, when his friends from Okinawa Motobu and Mabuni Kenwa came to Osaka, he gave them room and board in exchange for their teaching at the dojo. Kokuba taught the Motobu style of karate and upon Motobu’s death in 1947, he became the Soke or family head of Motobu-Ha Karate-Do.
The kanji characters for Kosei Kokuba (in Okinawa) are pronounced Yukimori in Japan. To avoid confusion he changed the pronunciation of the family name to .
On February 5, 1935, ’s son Kosho was born in Yamanashi prefecture near Mt. Fuji in the city of Fuji Yoshida-shi. The son began his karate training at the age of five in his father’s dojo. At the age of eight he was sent to study with Sensei Tomoyori Ryusei of Kenyu Ryu. wanted his son to be a true samurai as were his ancestors and, as a true samurai, to have knowledge of all martial arts. Therefore, at the age of eight, Kosho also began to study judo in an Osaka dojo. He continued his training in Judo for ten years and earned a sandan rank.
In 1947 at the age of twelve, he began training with Mabuni Kenwa in Shito-Ryu and was soon promoted by Sensei Mabuni to shodan in karate. In 1950 he was promoted to nidan by Mabuni and Tomoyori and in 1952 earned a sandan rank.
As a high school student, Kosho was president of his karate club. At the age of seventeen, he began teaching karate at Osaka Prefecture University and there is still a branch dojo of Seishin Kai there today. After high school, he trained in karate at Keio University and later trained at Doshisha University while he was a student there.
In 1955 Kosho was promoted to yondan by Tomoyori. During that year he was also promoted to sandan in Iaido and yondan in Kobudo. In 1956 he traveled to his father’s homeland of Okinawa where he trained with Nagamine Shojin in his style of Shorin-Ryu. While in Okinawa, he studied Kobudo with Taira Shinken and Nakaima Kenko of Ryuei Ryu. With Yamaguchi Junko, he studied the use of the Tonfa.
In 1957 Shihan Kosho’s book KARATE-DO BIN RAN, a text of the basic techniques of his style, was published. The book sold out and is no longer in print. In 1958 he was promoted to godan in Motobu-Ha Karate-Do and Rokudan in Kobudo. He studied Mugai-Ryu Iaido with Soke Ishii Gogetsu in Sakai City beginning in 1952.
He was instrumental in helping to form the Nippon Karate-Do Rengo Kai and in 1958 served as its first office manager.
After the elder ’s death in October 1959, Shihan Kosho was elected by the Shihan board of Seishin Kai to the position of Soke of Motobu-Ha Shito-Ryu Karate-Do. He is the third person to have held this position. At the age of twenty-four, he became the youngest karate Soke in Japan and took the karate name of Shogo which means strong warrior. In 1962 Soke was promoted to Karate-Do Rokudan by the Nippon Karate-Do Rengo Kai. Recipient of many honors throughout his career, he received one of the highest tributes when he was featured in the Encyclopedia Japonica in a four page article on Karate and Kobudo. In 1966 he was promoted to Karate-Do Nanadan. In 1970 he was chosen by the Zen Nippon Karate-Do Remnei (Now JKF) to give a demonstration at the First World Karate-Do Championship held in Tokyo at the Budo-Kan. Again in 1972, he was chosen to represent Japan in a demonstration at the Second World Karate-Do Championship held in Paris, France. At the age of thirty-eight in 1973, he was promoted to hachidan by the Rengo-Kai. At this same time, he gave a formal name of Goshin-Do to his system of self defense which he developed from his knowledge of Judo, Jui Jitsu, and Aikido and incorporated this art into the structure of Seishin Kai. In addition to karate work, Soke was one of the first to work with martial arts in Japanese movies. He appeared in twenty-two movies in Japan utilizing his martial arts skills. The last of these was a 1978 documentary film titled EIEN NARU BUDO ETERNAL MARTIAL ARTS) which received the 1979 Miami Film Festival Award as the best documentary film of 1978. The movie was shown in the USA under the title of BUDO: GREAT MASTERS OF THE MARTIAL ARTS. Soke has also been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles in Japan, USA, and Europe. He has also been featured in the 1984 issue of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN MARTIAL ARTS and in the 1985 issue of MASTERS, FOUNDERS, AND LEADERS OF AMERICAN MARTIAL ARTS. In 1984, he was promoted by the Nippon Karate-Do Rengo Kai to Kudan. In 1985 he was promoted to Nanadan by the Japan Karate-Do Federation. In 1983 he opened a Hombu Dojo in the USA in Portsmouth, VA. where he lived until his death in 1992. After his death he was promoted to tenth dan by the JKF, an honor held by only four other Japanese sensei, all deceased. While living in Portsmouth he concentrated his efforts on teaching his style of karate-do to the world. Now the tradition continues through his sons Kozo and Kosuke as well as sensei from dojo around the world that Shogo started. Seishin Kai is growing in the US as well as in South Africa, Europe, Mexico, India, Sweden, Russia, Srilanka, Israel, Turkey, West Indies and South America. The is the continuation of the Seishin Kai.
This was a way for both Hokama Sensei and Sensei, to teach people mutual trust and cooperation. Its techniques originate from what many great teachers from Goju Ryu, Motobu-Ha Shito Ryu Kobudo and Tomari Te, the founder learned from Master Seiko Higa, Master Seiko Fuguchi, Shimpo Matayoshi. When his last teacher dead in 1986, he decided return to old Goju Ryu he added his own techniques, to what he had learnt, and this style was named International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization.
Essence of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization
International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is a discipline for the training of the mind and body. The main practice of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is designed to benefit you in three areas of your life: Self Defense, spiritual development and improved health. Every person is faced with difficulties and disadvantages. So the International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization approach is to:
Do every action with all one heart (Isshin), and live each moment to the full.
International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is designed to help develop people who will help others. The qualities that will help you to do this are Bravery, motivation, intelligence and a sense of what is right. That is International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is designed to help you develop these qualities in yourself. For an untrained beginner the essence of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is:
To strive with all the energy, bravery, intelligence and other qualities you possess to help make a society which values all its members.
Techniques
International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is a method of SELF-DEFENSE, to protect yourself from violence, In order to allow the weaker to CONTROL the stronger. The techniques are on the basics of dynamics and physiology. Anyone regardless of strength, sex and age can practice from these TECHNIQUES.
Go Waza refers to those techniques used when you seek to overwhelm your opponent. On the offense, Go Waza refers to strikes, kicks, hammers and slashes. When on the defense, Go Waza is the term for dodges, parries, deflections and blocks.
Ju Waza is techniques used when in contact with an opponent. By changing the contact it is possible to gain control over an opponent. Defense forms, releases, joint reverses, throws and pins are the principal Jo Waza techniques.
International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization takes these two systems of hard and soft techniques combine them. In International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Hard and Soft elements unite to form each technique. This is a major characteristic of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization techniques.
To make a analogy the relationship between hardness and softness is like that between teeth and lips, the lips are soft and unlike the teeth, cannot bite, crush or chew, there is little we could eat without teeth, however without lips the food would fall from the mouth. As with eating, so with karate and kobudo is constructed to be EFFECTIVE by using BOTH
Characteristics of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization
Ken Zen Ichinyo
Body and Mind are the same.
The first characteristic of International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is ken zen ichinyo. Ken refers to the body and zen to the spirit. The body and mind are not separate, and so it is impossible to achieve spiritual awakening or peace of mind only through mental or spiritual training. Likewise, one can neither reach full potential of human life nor develop ones full strength through only physical training. For spirit and body have neither existence nor value separately. You seek a discipline that develops the mind while strengthening the body in which it dwells.
Neither mind nor body can maintain itself without the other, training both can be a matter of life and death, for thoughts alone would not save you if a man grabbed you by the throat and started to choke the blood to your head. Nor would your body alone help if you lost your love one, and sank into the shock of depression.
Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo should seek to develop both the body and mind
Riki Ai Funi
Strength and Love stand Together.
Strength without love is violence; love without strength is mere decoration
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What should I do to learn International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization?
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To study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization, you must first become a member of the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization. In other words, studying International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization's techniques and teachings is a privilege granted only to members of the International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization. If you would like to become a IKKO member, please check the list of branches on this homepage for a branch you can attend, then contact your national federation secretariat or (if there is no federation in your country) branch head for further details. You can only become a member of the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization by first joining a branch recognized by the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization. Then you may study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization's teachings and techniques. For procedures of joining IKKO, please refer to the "Message to Individual Members" page.
Also, the Branch Listing at this site lists all International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization branches around the world, and the leaders instructing at these branches are recognized by the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization as instructors.
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I would like to visit a branch on the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL KENSHI KAI KARATE KOBUDO ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION Branch List. What do I do?
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Is there a federation in the country of the branch you chose? If there is a federation, please start by contacting the federation. They will give you the details on branches in that country. If there is no federation in the country, inquire directly to the branch itself about visiting. In either case, whenever you visit a branch, make certain to contact the branch head before you go there
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I checked the Branch List, but there is no IKKO branch in the area where I live. How can I learn International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization?
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To learn International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization, you are required to join a branch lead by an International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization recognized instructor. If there is currently no IKKO branch within your commuting range, right now you cannot study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization. There is, however, the possibility that in the future a person holding qualifications to instruct may move to your neighborhood, or you yourself may move to a region where there is a branch, either of which would allow you the chance to become a member.
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I would like to study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization at the International Kenshi Kai Karate KobudoOrganization Western Headquarters in South Africa.
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If you are a member of any International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization branch, you may participate in training camps held at International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization Western Headquarters. For details, contact
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There is no IKKO branch in the region where I live, so I would like to train at the International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Headquarters in Japan as a live-in student.
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The International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization holds training camps in Japan which are open to members who belong to IKKO branches. Unfortunately, we do not open these to people who are not members
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Are there English language materials on International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization?
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When you enter a IKKO branch, the branch instructor makes available a basic textbook called the "Fukudoku Hon." This basic text is distributed from the IKKO Secretariat in Japanese and English versions, and there are also other versions which have been translated into the local languages of our members' countries. For people who have not joined our membership, only the information on this website is available. Videos and other such materials may only be purchased by IKKO members
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If you are a IKKO member, you may go through your branch instructor to order the goods introduced on this website from the IKKO Secretariat. Make sure to make full payment to your branch instructor when you order these goods. If you are not a IKKO member, we regret to inform you that it is a privilege solely of IKKO members to purchase goods sold by IKKO, so we cannot meet your requests
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There is no IKKO branch in my country, so I would like to learn International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization techniques and teachings from videos and printed sources.
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International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is not something that can be acquired by using books and videos on one's own. To study it properly requires feedback on one's degree of understanding and degree of attainment while receiving the direct guidance of an instructor. Furthermore, International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization does not merely involve the study of techniques, but it is also the study of how partners and friends can assist and even rescue one another, a practice learned by partnering in practice and growing more skillful together. In addition, as stated above, goods sold by the IKKO Secretariat may only be purchased by IKKO members, so we cannot meet orders from non-members
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I am studying International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization now, but my sensei's name is not listed on this website. Why is that?
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All branches and branch instructors recognized by the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization are listed on the IKKO branch list. If someone not on the list is teaching, then they have no relationship with the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization. If you have concerns about this, please contact your national IKKO federation or the IKKO Secretariat.
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I used to study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization. My sensei's name is not listed on this website. Am I a member of the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization?
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Among the IKKO branches, there are some that are not in operation at this time, and some that have been disbanded. Branches that are not currently operating are not listed on the Branch List. However, the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization has recorded and maintains the data and ranks earned for every member who has joined in the past. If the place where you studied International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization was an official IKKO branch, and if the person instructing you reported your entrance and grading examinations, then all that information is recorded at the IKKO Secretariat. However, if your instructor was teaching without the permission of the International International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization Organization, then your entrance and grading examinations have not been reported to IKKO's Secretariat. In such cases, although you may, for example, have passed your 1st dan examination, it is not a properly awarded International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization rank. If anyone has concerns about such matters, please contact the IKKO Secretariat
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Have a black belt which I earned in karate. To study International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization, do I have to quit karate and start over from a white belt?
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International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is completely distinct from karate and other martial arts. International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization has a unique curriculum, and all IKKO branches around the World follow the same curriculum and study the same techniques and teachings. This means that around the world, everyone of the same rank practices the same techniques and fundamental principles. Consequently, even if you have the highest ranking of 10th dan in another martial art, when you start International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization you know none of the International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization techniques or teachings, so, as you might expect, you will need to start from a white belt.
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The Four Truths
The Truth of Suffering
Life is Full of suffering
The truth of Harmony
Suffering arises because people let themselves be moved by their desires without regard for how their desired outcomes find a place in reality.
The truth of Overcoming
Determining to regulate ones desire is the only way to win over suffering, for suffering cannot merely be escaped.
The Truth of The Way
Training in the Eight Paths is a concrete way of winning over ones suffering.
The Eight Paths
Right Vision
To avoid pre-judging anything and to seek to see things for what they are
Right thought
To judge what should be done for the good of the world, including oneself, and to determine to do so.
Right Speech
To communicate the truth and aid the hearts of others.
Right Actions
To help people and not cause suffering.
Right Life
To serve others through ones occupation.
Right Effort
To strive to live a right life in all areas of ones life.
Right Belief
To know true happiness, to recognize what’s makes life worth living, and to know the joy of serving others.
Right Determination
To value every moment of every hour, and to concentrate all of ones energy on what should be done now
International Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudo Organization is meant to help Kenshi Kai Karate Kobudoexperience the truth and the value of these teachings.
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