European-style kumite seminar with Oliva Sensei!

Richard here!

The Oliva Sensei kumite seminar on Sunday, November 9 is all set to go now! Shiramizu is calling it the 'Second Champion Seminar', the first having taken place last year with other instructors.

ANTONIO OLIVA SEBA, 8th. Dan WKF International Coach

The following is from his bio;

Oliva Sensei created the Sports Karate Coaching System which followed the world over. He has been teaching a total of 57 different countries: 27 in Europe, 8 in Asia, 8 in Africa, 11 in America and 3 in Oceania. In the last two Karate World Championships held in Tampere (Finland) and Istambul (Turkey) most of the medalist countries have competed using his technical and tactical approaches.

For the seminar, 2 European kumite champions will also be assisting Oliva Sensei. They are participating on their national teams in the upcoming WKF World Championships in Tokyo Nov 13-16. (See their names, photos and tournament resumes below.)

The location has been chosen as the Satte City's Cultural Gymnasium, called 'Asukaru Satte', in Satte City, Saitama. This is the same location used for Monday night's Shiramizu branch class, as the budo dojo there is quite large and it can hold over 100 people.

The closest station Satte Eki, on the Tobu Nikko line. It's a 30min walk east from the station, but less than a 10min taxi ride. If several people share a taxi, it's cheap.

Seminar class times:

9:30am-1pm

2-5:30pm

Price:

1500yen for junior high school and younger

2000yen for high school and older

Seminar plans (from Oliva Sensei)
セミナーのプラン
In accordance with my experience, my suggested topics for our seminar would be:
私の経験に基づいて、お薦めするセミナーの内容は下記の通りです。

1. Tactics, the intelligent movement, that is to say, tactical behaviours. Japanese Karate is good in technique and weak in tactics (advanced students).
１）戦法（賢い動き）いわゆる戦術です。日本の空手家は技術に長けていますが、（上級者の生徒は特に）戦術がいまいちです。

2. Defensive Technical System, how to control and make unsuccessful any attack of your opponents. Japanese are also not very good on that issue (beginners and kids).２）防御技術システム：相手の攻撃を制御し失敗に終わらせる。日本人の空手家はこの点もあまり得意としていません（特に初心者と子供)

3. A brief introduction to "Sports Karate" from the European point of view. Methodology of "Shiai-Kumite" in accordance with the personality of the athletes (only for instructors).
３）ヨーロッパ視点のスポーツ空手の紹介：スポーツ選手の特性に基づいた「スポーツ組手」の手法（インストラクターにのみ紹介)

TO REGISTER: SEND AN EMAIL TO ARAKAWA SENSEI WITH YOUR NAME!
IN ENGLISH IS FINE.

arakawa.takamasa@nifty.com

Assistant Seminar Coaches:

Adam Kovacs (Hungry)
アダム　コヴァックス　(ハンガリー)
Member of the Hungarian National Karate team since 1997
Best Results (-65kg division)
WKF Junior Karate World Championships: Winner - Athens- 2001
WKF University World Championships fourth place - Mexico- 2002
WKF World Karate Championships: fourth place - Madrid- 2002
WKF World Karate Championships: second place - Mexico- 2004

1997年以来のハンガリーのナショナル空手チームのメンバー
最も良い結果(-65kg)
WKF　ジュニア世空手世界選手権: 勝者　2001回のアテネ
WKF　大学世界選手権: 4位　2002年のメキシコ
WKF 世界大会空手選手権: 4位　2002年のマドリード
WKF 世界大会空手選手権: 2位　メキシコ2004
Kalvis Kalnins (Latvia)
カラビス　カルインズ　(ラトビア)

Birthday: February 16th 1991, Jelgava, Latvia
1st dan by WKF
Champion of Latvia 6 times in kata and 7 times in kumite.
Best results:
2007 - 2nd place (-55kg cadet) WKF World Championship in Istanbul, Turkey;
2008 - 3rd place (-60kg cadet) WKF European Championship in Trieste, Italy;
2008 - 3rd place (-60kg senior) Azerbaijan President's Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.

誕生日: 1991年2月16日出生地: エルガワ、ラトビア
WKFによる初段
型と6回に組手と7回のラトビアのチャンピオン。
最も良い結果:
2007--2番目に(-55kgのカデト)WKF世界選手権大会をイスタンブール(トルコ)
2008--トリエステ(イタリア)の３位(-60kgのカデト)WKF欧州選手権
2008--3位(-60kg年)のアゼルバイジャンのCup社長はバクー、アゼルバイジャンにいます。