These are the posts for the North Sydney dojo.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The girls are tougher than the boys during winter
It was a cold July Only the girls made it to the 7am training sessions during the coldest weeks of winter. They were also the only [...]
A grading, some videos and a boxing lesson
June was a busy month. We had a grading presentation, our website commenced its overhaul and we jumped in the ring with some boxers. 8th Kyu Grading [...]
Would a Karate student survive a Boxing match?
Cross training was strongly discouraged in our dojo during the last part of the 20th century, so our experience of other martial arts, or any form [...]
The old Cairns dojo get back in touch
Students from the past, again At the start of the month we were contacted by Darren Garth. Darren is a Shodan who trained at the [...]