Hangetsu Bunkai
Hangetsu Bunkai The Vines below are a selection of our Bunkai for Hangetsu (or Seisan). The Hisa-Geri The Mae-Geri and Age Uke
Our grading syllabus gets an update
The Chidokan Grading Syllabus The Chidokan grading syllabus has been in place since the 1960's. Our syllabus is a comprehensive and balanced approach to Shotokan [...]
Kihon-Yon-Dosa is a fantastic platform to focus on Dachi
What a great start to the year! We started back at training on 6th Jan and wasted no time getting back into things. All the [...]
2014 was a great year
2014 was a great year for Chidokan. It was a great year in the Dojo with 700 hours of training, 3 Gasshuku and plenty of cross [...]
A month on Heian Sandan
Heian Sandan With the end of the year drawing close I wanted to give my students something new to work on. So we spent a [...]
45 years of Karate
45th Anniversary Gasshuku 2014 marks the 45th year of Chidokan in Australia. To celebrate this event the November Gasshuku was held in North Sydney. Friday [...]
Bunkai, Bunkai and more Bunkai
Bunkai Iain Abernathy's is a Bunkai guru from the UK and hold seminars around the world on the application of Karate moves. He posted a [...]
45th Anniversary preparations
45th Anniversary Gasshuku The Gasshuku at the end of this month celebrates 45 years of Chidokan in Australia. Soshi Sensei Hudson commenced his training at [...]
September was a month for cross training and bunkai
The Gasshuku is only a month or so away so we've been working hard in preparation. We have been focussing on our tools as well [...]
What would we do without Kara-Zuki
Training this month The focus of our training this month was the Kara-Zuki exercises. Kara-Zuki, roughly translated, means basic punching and we have three distinct [...]