November 4 2017 12:00 AM

Skerries-born karate athlete Sorcha McCorry has added yet more medals to her impressive national and International Championship achievements for Ireland alongside Francisco Astudillo Pena.

In a demanding year for training and attending a significant number of competitions, the Skerries native also managed to tie the knot with her Venezuelan born husband, Francisco Astudillo Pena, a qualified engineer, who is also an accomplished and experienced karate athlete and coach.

The karate pair had met regularly through international competition and seminars and in 2010 not only became world cup champions but also realised their mutual philosophies and paths in their karate life was alike giving rise, in part, to the Venezuelan moving to Ireland in 2016.

Recently Sorcha together with fellow Ireland team mates were presented with the newly designed Karate Ireland track suit....

October 29 2016 12:00 AM

There were two reasons to celebrate at a Skerries martial arts club recency when a pair of its members picked up medals in two national events.

The double celebration happened at the World Shotokan Karate-do Federation (WSKF) Club in Skerries where Shauna Fletcher, a Loreto student and club member from Skerries quite literally kicked off the celebrations.

The Balbriggan native took bronze at the WSKF National championships and within weeks was examined and successfully graded by a panel of international instructors from Ireland, Canada and Denmark headed by WSKF Chief Instructor Hitoshi Kasuya, Japan.

The young woman held her composure and nerve despite the enormous pressure of the examination weekend and was commended for her (kata) forms and her kumite technique (fighting).

The newest member of the WSKF Ireland club Skerries is Venezuelan athlete Francisco Astudillo....

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Taikyoku Shodan

Taikyoku Shodan

The Taikyoku series is a sequences of Kata used in several Karate Organizations to developed the main core of the beginner students. The name Taikyoku refers to the Chinese philosophical concept of Tajis ( "great pole" is a Chines cosmological term the "Supreme Ultimate", state of undifferentiated absolute and infinite potential).

The taikyoku katas were developed by Yoshihata Funakoshi and introduced by Ginchin Funakoshi to simplify the principles of the already Pinan/Heian series

Is a special Kata to introduce to Beginners in the first step of Karate system, Combined a series of block, attack and stance, ideal to developed the natural reaction between defense and count attack, allows to the students to be aware step’s sequences and right turn.

The best method to teach this introductory Kata is the twist of sight, so the important thing is the student understand how should turn by his/her right or left side, previously to do the turn it has to be indicate to look at for the correct way, right or left and then twist with all the body for this direction, most of the young beginner find those movements so complicate due that their short experience however as their practice for several time this process become easy.

The drawing generated for this Kata is like an “H” so the student eventually does a mental diagram of this patron on getting the right orientation.

Technique involved in the Kata
1. Chudan Oi Zuki
2. Gedan Barai
3. Zenkutzu Dachi

Check Point

Stance:
1. Do not open the tiptoe when moved forward.
2. Do not rise the heel when it rotate
3. Keep bent your front leg and stretched your back leg.
4. Keep always same height even when does the spinning. 

Attack:
1. The trajectory of the fist have always to follow a straight line between Hikite and the last point of trajectory in oi zuki, Remember elbows in.
2. Shoulders down.
3. Shomen front hip rotation

Block:
1. Cross both arms to do Gedan barai, make sure one of this have to be straight while the other one is near the ear.
2. Twisting the hips in each Gedan Barai.

Are you ready?

I show you the first video below

Taikyoku Shodan

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SUCCESS: FROM EMPIRICAL TO METHODOLOGICAL PART I

                              

Jion by Sensei Tomas Hernandez, Boris Orel, Hugo Medina and F. ASTUDILLO,

Here we shared mat among Sensei Tomas Hernandez, Borisl Orel and Hugo Medina, intensity Jion and strict advice by Sensei F. Korban.
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Unsu and Sochin Warm up By Hugo Medina and Francisco Astudillo Sensei

We always have enjoyed the previous moment before our WSKF Championship, our healthy competition did that our performance increase years by years. Every single one of our WSKF squat always understand what important was our preparation to give the best for our country.
My pride for all my teamate, My dear Sensei Hugo Medina and myself sheared here a warm up match, he improving his Sochin Kata and myself on my deep study on Unsu Kata.
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NY Seminar by F. Korban Sensei

Sensei Korban's Advanced Kata Seminar in New York. December 2nd., 2017. Closing a successful year that took him to Japan, China, Panama, and the US. Thank you, Sensei, have a safe trip home. @FouadKorban2011 @wskfvenezuela @wskfjapan https://t.co/cNHJpJ02ox
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WSKF USA Budo Tip Vol. 1 No. 4

                                

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