At the 34th Annual Rensei (Training) National Budokan Championships (elementary and junior high school age) on July 30, the men and women national kata teams performed a demonstration.
7/30:全国少年少女武道館錬成大会で全日本男女形チームが演武を披露しました。
Seiritsu high school students were volunteering at the score keeping tables.
成立高校生はコートでボランティアをしました。
Men's team performed Annan kata.
男子団体チームがアンナンをしました。
Takumi Hasegawa・Itaru Ooki・Masashi Ogiwara
長谷川匠・大木
格・荻原昌志
Women's team performed the Kururunfa kata.
女子団体チームはクルルンファをしました。
Yoko Kimura・Suzuka Kashioka・Miku Morioka
木村陽子・柏岡鈴香・森岡実久
The young competitors did team kata and the top eight teams for each group then moved onto to team kumite.
若い選手が団体形をやり、ベスト８のチームが組手トーナメントに残りました。
At the 34th Annual Rensei (Training) National Budokan Championships (elementary and junior high school age) on July 30, the men and women national kata teams performed a demonstration.
Men's team performed Annan kata.
Women's team performed the Kururunfa kata.
The young competitors did team kata and the top eight teams for each group then moved onto to team kumite.
On Thursday, November 11 I took visiting Ireland Wadokai member Eddie Mc Connell to the Nippon Budokan's Budogakuen karate practice. Dr. Hideo Takagi Sensei (of Guseikai Takagi Dojo) is the instructor. Normally Arakawa Takamasa Sensei is also there, but he had to oversee a kyu test at his dojo.