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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:

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.

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.