Welcome. It has been a very busy term for many. Some Karateka

are training for Competitions and some for Shodan

Grading. Parents are settling into a hard routine of

school, extra murals and karate class. ( and we all

know that’s a rough ride!!)

There is a lot of activities happening this quarter.

Grading preparation will now start in earnest, make

sure all lessons are taken seriously as any classes

missed now affects the flow of the preparation

process.

Life books can now be handed in no later than END

APRIL, the earlier the beter as there is a lot of admin to

be done before grading takes place.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks

outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Past Events

Up coming Events

JKA and WKF

Master Sugiura Motokuni

The INJA

Jackie Chan

Karate Movies

SECOND NEWSLETTER

Past Events

Tournament results Well done to all our competitors who competed in the

following Tournaments:

Click on event to see results

KSA Children 3—5 March 2017

JKA Gauteng 10—11 March 2017

KSA u/21, Seniors and Vet 17—18 March 2017

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Solis Ortus Policies

Solis Ortus Events Calendar

Karate Super league Bulls Challenge Invitation

Upcoming Events 27 april Freedom Day

1 may Workers Day

6 May JKA Pregrading / National Grading Ellis Park

10 May Parents meeting Magister hall

13 may JKA White—Brown Belt Training TBA

13 may KSL Bulls Challenge Portuguese hall

13 may ISKF Tournament TBA

19—20 May SA JKA Nationals Ellis park

17—21 May ufak CAMEROON

26—27 May Ksa Elite / SA Opens Johannesburg

3 June Solis Ortus Grading Magister Hall

10 June JKA Inter Provincial Tournament Rustenberg

10 June KSL Lions Challenge TBA

1 July Wild West Tournament Gauteng

Black Belt Grading Two of our Junior Black belts are training very hard

for their Shodan Grading which takes place on 6

May . Many years of preparation led you up to this

point. Train well and smart. Solis Ortus has your

back!!

Club Grading Our first Grading for the year will take place on the 3rd

of June.

Please make sure all life books are handed in and all

class fees are up to date.

Make sure you have the class attendance required

before grading, namely 14 classes per term, which

comes to a minimum of 28 classes before grading.

Attendance is monitored via the finger print system, so

please make sure students register before every class.

Also make sure that all registration stamps are in life

book and all information on first page is completed.

The JKA generally follows the tenets of Funakoshi Sensei, however he never endorsed the JKA as he felt

it was to sport oriented. After the JKA was founded by Nakayama Sensei, Funakoshi Sensei founded the

Shotokai which does not espouse sport applications of Shotokan.

WKF is pure sport karate with it's main focus to bring Karate-Do to the Olympics.

The Japanese Karate Association (JKA) is one of the oldest and largest organizations and governing

bodies for Japanese martial arts. If you studied Judo or karate in the 60s then you belonged to the JKA

probably and your rank was recognized by them and they helped establish the standards for many of

your traditional styles as far as testing and promotion. They would also sanction tournaments which back

then were few and far between and established the rules for those.

In the early 70s when the martial arts boom hit things began to change very quickly and some martial

artists and school owners either dropped out of the JKA or began instead to let people within their styles

set these standards. Tournaments started to become more in number and greater in size and many

military service personnel had returned from south east Asia with experience and training in non

Japanese styles.

The World Karate Federation came into being in 1990 and is more an umbrella organization and

promotes international competition and sprung out of World United Karate Organization (WUKO) .That

organization is very active in trying to establish international competition and getting karate into the

Olympics. The WKF recognizes your major styles of karate and their kata and does not restrict

competition to just one style and one set of kata like the SKIF does. Both promote international

competition but one is more with in its own style while supporting the efforts of the other is the easiest

way to explain it.

Traditional Okinawan karate contains many joint locks, takedowns, etc. that the sport karate does not

have. Sport karate tends to use higher kicks than the Traditional version. Sport karate (not only the

Okinawan styles, but the Korean TKD) tend to kick using the instep rather than the ball of the foot.

Traditional Okinawan karate still does basically the same kata that were done by the old masters. Within

them are many practical real-life applications(If you know how to discover them). Sport karate has in

many cases changed the kata. Many times Sport karate kata have been totally made up just for

competition. Traditional Okinawan karate has more self-defense applications.

JKA AND WKF WHATS THE DIFFERENCE

Master Sugiura Motokuni A Lifetime of Devotion to Karate

In 1958, a year after the Japanese government granted the JKA official recognition, Master Sugiura received his university license as a Physical Education instructor. Over the next five years, he was a part-time Physical Education teacher and lecturer at Asia University, while also attaining his 6th Dan.

In the next decade he began producing materials to help promote the way of karate around the world. In 1961, he helped to edit the textbook “Basics of Karate-do,” which identified some common basic errors in karate techniques. In 1963, he created a six-volume, English-language 8mm film entitled “Karate Seminar.” In the summer of the same year, he resigned as Director of the JKA, and became a full-time Physical Education teacher.

Master Sugiura’s circle of activities kept on expanding. He served as president of the Koganei City Karatedo Federation and Physical Education Association. He joined the Japan Martial Arts Society. And he began creating, in partnership with Kodansha International Ltd., a five-volume video series in Japanese and English on the kata.

Soon Master Sugiura’s efforts were attracting attention outside Japan. He was invited to China and Taiwan for the Japan Friendship Karatedo Cup. Then, in August 1975, he went to Los Angeles and Hawaii to attend the International Amateur Karate Federation general meeting and see the JKA-sponsored 7th IAKF Championship. Shortly thereafter, “Monthly Karate-do” magazine began publishing his column.

1976 was another big year for international karate. In August 1976, Master Sugiura—now an 8th Dan, a Karate Technical Committee member, and a full-time professor at Asia University—accompanied the university Alumni Association on an historic visit to Indonesia. Then he was sent to the U.S. to observe how karate was being taught at several American universities.

The next year, Master Sugiura completed his thesis “A System of Karate-do,” which discussed the true essence of karate. He spent the next few years creating “Teaching Materials for Karate-do as Physical Education.” And in 1989, he drafted the supplementary karate guidelines for these materials.

In March 1990, Master Sugiura retired from his post at Asia University, and the next year was appointed as Chief Instructor of the JKA. In 1992, he received his 9th Dan.

One of Master Sugiura’s greatest gifts to the JKA has been his consistent focus on the basics: kihon,

kumite and kata. As he emphasizes, kihon teaches us how to move, ensuring our technique is flawless;

kumite teaches us how to concentrate, and how to best apply our technique for maximum power; kata

teaches us both at once—and opens the way to the body-mind unity that is the soul of karate.

The position of Chief instructor is now taken by Sensei Masaaki Ueki , from 2010.

Sometimes, the inyo is referred to as "the symbol of the rising sun." If you look at the Japanese flag, you'll see

that it is very similar to the inyo. Both are simply images of a red circle on a white background. The Japanese

flag is known as Nisshoki, which means "sun flag," or Hinomaru, meaning "sun disc." When compared to the

Japanese flag, it is no great leap to view to the inyo as a rising sun. As for the Okinawan flag, it has quite the

inyo-like appearance. The inyo used by the JKA may simply symbolize the Okinawan flag, paying respect to the

land where karate was born.

Okinawan Flag Japanese Flag

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on 7th April 1954. He was named Chan Kong Sang. Chan is the son of Lee-Lee and Charles Chan, who emigrated to Canberra, Australia in 1960 as refugees from the Chinese Civil War. Prior to leaving China, Lee-Lee and Charles had worked as a maid and butler, respectively, for the French ambassador to Hong Kong. Jackie changed his name, as all students (at the opera house) did, to Yeun Lau in respect for his teacher. Jackie Chan at the young age 7 was sold by his parents to a Chinese opera house. At the opera house he learned many things like the martial arts and how to sing. The people who ran it were quite brutal. After his 10 years at the opera house he left. At 17 he started in the movies as a stunt man, but later started making his own movies, those first few movies were flops because the were not orignal, they were copies of Bruce Lee's style, they were copies because Jackie was hyped as being the heir to Bruce Lee. But later Jackie created his own style by incorporating physical comedy with cool stunts and awesome action, this created his own style and that made him a sucees in the Asian movie market.

In the early eighties Jackie Chan tried to make it big in the United States by making movies in here, but they were all flops because he was (or the directors) trying too much to be like the american action movie star, which as you probally know is not his style.

In 1994, MTV honored Chan with a lifetime achievement award for his action-oriented movies,

In Febuary of 1996 Jackie Chan (really new line cinema) released "Rumble in the Bronx, which in its

first week top the box office with a weekend gross of $11 million.

Jackie Chan

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