Karlstad Shibu congratulates Anders-sensei who has been nominated to the Swedish Martial Arts Gala (Kampsportsgalan) in the category “Traditional Practitioner of the Year”! In a comment to the regional news Värmlandsnytt he says “I’m happy. But to be perfectly honest, I would have preferred to see my friend nominated. He was paralyzed in half of his body after surgery to remove a brain tumor, and the doctors said he wouldn’t be able to practice anymore. However, he has an iron will and has made a strong comeback, including going to Japan where he successfully graded to 5th dan”. Anders-sensei also says anything that gives visibility to Shorinji Kempo in the media is positive.

The festival will be held at Berns in Stockholm on March 22nd.
Here is the home page of the gala www.kampsportsgalan.nu.

Morikawa-sensei

Today is Morikawa Zeoh sensei turning 85 years old and we want to wish him a big Happy birthday!

Morikawa-sensei is doin-chō for Rakutō dōin in Kyoto and has had a long relationship with Kenshi in Sweden. Students of Morikawa-sensei was some of the early instructors in Sweden during the 1970s and during the latter half of the ’80s and ’90s we also had students of Morikawa-sensei coming to Sweden to teach for 6 months to a year. In 1987 we had Kawahara-sensei in Sweden for about 1 year, mainly in Visby, but he also visited Karlstad. In 1989 Morikawa-sensei’s oldest son Morikawa Kazuhito sensei came to Sweden, he was mainly in Visby but spent about a month here in Karlstad. In 1995, Hiroshi Kawashima sensei came to Sweden and he stayed about six months and spent most of his time here in Karlstad. Continue reading →

Today, Tuesday 7th of January, the regular practice start again after the holidays. All old members, and of course any new members are welcome, for now it’s time to get going again after all the eating over X-mas! Some have practised in the dojo even during the holidays, although there haven’t  been any organised official practice sessions. On one of these sessions last Saturday Joachim showed up, he has been on a break from training for a a few years, but now we hope we get to see him a little more regularly in the dojo, and that some other old members can wake up and show up in the dojo sometimes.

Practice times can be found here.

Wishing all our members with families and everybody else that we know a Happy New 2014.

Regular practice will start again on the 7th of January.

Anders-sensei teaches at gasshuku in England

On the weekend of November 30th to December 1st Anders-sensei visited England for some Shorinji Kempo practice. There was a half-day training for yūdansha (black belts) in London on the Saturday, followed by a full day gasshuku (training camp) in Southampton on the Sunday.

Here a tells  a bit about the weekend.

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During the weekend of the 2nd to 3rd of November, our branch organised a gasshuku (training camp) here in Karlstad. We had training on Saturday and Sunday and there were participants from most of the Swedish Shorinji Kemp branches, as well as two participants from Finland.

The instructors for the weekend was Karlstad Shibu’s own Shibu-chō, Anders Pettersson Daikenshi 6 Dan, and Karlstads Studenter’s Shibu-chō, Åke Olsson Seikenshi 5 Dan.
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Finally the Swedish version of the new kamokuhyō (curriculum) is printed and available for purchase in the dojo.

This version is the one that is effective from 1st of April 2013. There are three different kamokuhyō all of which include the training schedule and grading criteria for all different levels.

Kyūkenshi kamokuhyō is for beginners up to 1 dan, yudansha kamokuhyō contains training schedule and grading criteria for 2 dan up to 6 dan, and the shōnen kamokuhyō is for children (under 13) and includes training schedule and grading criteria up to 1 dan for children.

All versions cost 50 SEK.

Kyū grading, from left; Simon, Maja & Sara.

On Tuesday the 22nd of October we had a kyū grading. It was three members that took their test.

A big congratulations to Simon who passed the test for 2 kyū, Sara who passed the test for 4 kyū and to Maja who passed the test for 6 kyū.

This Thursday, August 22nd, the practice will be back to normal after the summer’s slower pace.

The junior group start again again from this Thursday, and we will now also have the Saturday practice sessions for adults (after the summer’s cancellation of that session).

We look forward to see all old members who have had summer breaks and now will get back to training.

Now is also an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to start to practice Shorinji Kempo. We welcome new members of all ages. Please read this page if you want to become a member.

Now the summer has begun and thus it’s time to pay the training fee for summer term for those who have not done it yet.

Training on Thursday the 13th of June is cancelled since all instructors are busy with graduation celebration, Saturday trainings also ceases from now and over the summer. But some members might still be keen on training during the weekends anyway, especially if the weather is not the best, so please email any instructor or other members if you want to practice outside of the regular sessions. If you don’t have your own key you can always borrow someone else’s key.

The Juniors group has now a break over the summer and starts again around the time school starts, we’ll be back with information. The older juniors, who feel that they can cope with the adults training, are welcome at the usual adult training sessions during the summer.