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Sunday, 6 September 2026

Sesei Zad's Veteran 40-44 years old Male Individual Kumite (Open Weight), NBO 2025

YouTube videos of Sesei Zad's participation Veteran 40-44 years old Male Individual Kumite (Open Weight) category North Borneo Open Karate Championship 2025 (2nd edition; https://nbokarate.my.canva.site/), an event by Shito-ryu Sabah, Malaysia, held on 17-20th October, Hongkod Koisaan Cultural Hall, KDCA, Penampang, Sabah “Land below the Wind”, Malaysia.

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Friday, 7 August 2026

Videos to 14th Shitō-ryū International Karate-dō Taikai 2025

These are the published YouTube videos to the 14th Shitō-ryū International Karate-dō Taikai 2025 that was already shared in earlier posts:

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Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Announcement - Recognition & Awards

Particularly for KarateTTDI, now that we have a significant break from tournaments:

  1. 🥋Classes will return to Kata-Kihon Week and Kumite Week format. All students will be involved in Kata & Kihon on Kata-Kihon Weeks, and all students will be involved in Kumite on Kumite Weeks.
  2. 🏐We will bring back *games *at the end of classes.

Recognition & Awards:

  1. 🏅‘Student of the Month’ award - Previously on rare occasions, we gave prizes to the winner of games. Instead of prices for games, we will instead give prizes to whom we award as "Student of the Month". Every month the sensei will discuss on who will be awarded as Student of the Month based on attitude, effort focus, consistency, discipline and improvements. Those awarded will be announced, given a prize, photo taken, and posted on our social media.
  2. 👏🏼‘Session Recognition’ - if any of the sensei notice that any one ore more students exceptionally stands out and presents the same attributes as judged for the 'Student of the Month' award, we will make that announcement at the end of the session as a recognition. More than one student can be recognised per class. Though prize is not given for this recognition, it will help us track who is in the running for the 'Student of the Month' award.
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Thursday, 15 January 2026

Webpages Updates: Etiquette, Terminologies, Principles

 I've made large updates with improvements to three main pages:

  1. 礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette (formerly: '礼式 Reishiki (Etiquette)')
  2. Terminologies
  3. 則 Principles

The main updates are:

  1. Materials: There has been many big updates to the materials and contents found in the pages, especially for '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page, duplicating the latest Edition ot the 'A Brief Introduction to Karate-do Training' booklet. 'A Brief Introduction to Karate-do Training' booklet is part of the items that is provided upon registration of new members. The Etiquette, Terminologies and Principle pages in this webste are from the contents of the booklet. The latest edition, Eddition 4 dated 10 October 2025 has a number of corrections and large amount of added information.
  2. Moved or combined pages: There were several pages that falls under a main section were previously displayd in its own page. (E.g. There were several pages that falls under one main subection but were separated to its own pages.)
    1. '気合い Kiai' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page.
    2. '道場 Dōjō' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page.
    3. 'Bowing Ceremonies' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page.
    4. '道着Dōgi / 空手着Karategi / 稽古着 Keikōgi' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page.
    5. '段位 Dani / Ranking System' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under '礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette' page.
    6. 転身八方 Tenshin Happo' section (formerly: 'Eight Directional Movements') moved from 'Terminologies' page to '則 Principles' page » 'Shitō-ryū Technical Principles' section.
    7. 'Shitō-ryū Philosophies' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under 則 Principles' page.
    8. 'Shitō-ryū Technical Principles' section that was formerly as its own page is now placed under 則 Principles' page.
  3. Numbered reference: Previous editions of the 'A Brief Introduction to Karate-do Training' booklet did not provide references or citations of where the information is derived from. This new reference section combines all references from 礼法/礼儀/礼式/行儀 Etiquette, Terminologies and 原則 Gensoku (Principles) and are duplicated across these pages.
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Friday, 28 November 2025

The ‘Greatest Of All Time’ Rafael Aghayev Kumite Seminar in Malaysia

Senseis of KarateDatu, Zad Datu and Nik Datu, had the pleasure to attend The ‘Greatest Of All Time’ Rafael Aghayev Kumite Seminar in Malaysia (first time in Malaysia) on 20-21 Sep 2025 at City Meridian Convention Centre Seri Kembangan, organsied by Kibokan Karate Do.

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Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Recent Grading, 16 Aug 2025

🎉🎊 Congratulations to all those who sat and performed well for the 16 Aug 2025 M.A.S.K. Grading.

Muawiyah (KarateTTDI) - ⬜9 kyu ➔ 🟨8 kyu
Max Mitto (KarateTTDI) - ⬜9 kyu ➔ 🟨8 kyu
Amir (KarateTTDI) - ⬜9 kyu ➔ 🟨8 kyu
Asher (KarateTTDI) - ⬜9 kyu ➔ 🟨8 kyu
Suri (KarateTTDI) - ⬜9 kyu ➔ 🟨8 kyu

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Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Dan’i shinsa (段位審査) as part of the 14th Shitō-ryū International Karate-dō Taikai (第14回糸東流国際空手道競技大会)

I am honoured to announce that I have received my 4th Dan/degree in Karate-dō [空手道四段; Karate-dō Yondan] by Japan Karate-dō Kai [日本空手道会 ; Japan Karate-dō Association] (Seitō Shitō-ryu [日本空手道会; orthodox/pure]) dated 26 August 2025.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to sit for Dan’i shinsa (段位審査; Degree rank examination) / Dan Grading just 6 hours drive away from KL, that is in Singapore as part of the as part of the as part of the 14th Shitō-ryū International Karate-dō Taikai (第14回糸東流国際空手道競技大会; Dai Jūyon-kai Shitō-ryū Kokusai Karate-dō Kyōgi Taikai) 2025 held in Singapore, 25-28 August (organised by Shitoryu Singapore Karate-Do Kai Shinyuu Kai).



宗家 / Sōke [Head (of the family)]
三世 / San-sei [Third Generation]

摩文仁 司 / Tsukasa Mabuni

糸東流宗家 / Sōke Shitō-ryū [Head of Shitō-ryū]
日本空手道会 / Nihon Japan Karate-dō Kai [Japan Karate-dō Association]

二○二五年七月二十六日 / Nirei nigo nen shichi gatsu nijūroku nichi [Year 2025, month 7, day 26]

右認定す / Migi nintei su [Hereby certified]
空手道四段 / Karate-dō Yondan [4th Dan/degree in Karate]

ダトゥ・フィルザダ・ハルン / Datou Firuzada Harun [Datu Firzada Harun]
認定証 / Ninteishō [Certificate]


If memory serves me right, there were four (4) stations af Examination panels. One for those going to Shodan [初段; 1st/first dan/degree], another for going for Nidan [弐段; 2nd/second dan/degree], another going for Sandan [参段; 3rd/third dan/degree], and the last with the smallest number of candidates of nine (9), those going for Yondan [四段; 4th/fourth dan/degree] and Godan [五段; 5th/fifth dan/degree]. For each grading there were four parts, plus an additional part for the Yondan and Godan station:

  1. Kihon [基本; fundamentals]
    • Ido shiki [移動指揮; movement commands]
    • Tenshin [転身; self rotation]
  2. Kata [型・形; kar. prescribe form of patterns], where candidates have to perform one from each of the two lineage
    • Itosu-ke (糸洲家; Itosu lineage)
    • Higaonna-ke (東恩納家; Higaonna lineage)
  3. Improvised ippon kumite [一本組手; one step sparring] (for Yondan and Godan station only)


My selection of Kata were:
  1. Itosu-ke: Gojushihō [五十四歩; 54 Steps]
  2. Higaonna-ke: Niapaipo [二八歩; 28 steps / two, eight steps]



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