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OC道場Shimizu兄弟（リョウゴとトモキ）、平原イブキ、小林アトム君4人の帰国送別会
Ryougo Shimizu, Tomoki Shimizu, Ibuki Hirahara, Atom Kobayashi good bye party

アンソニー　モネット
Anthony Monette

てつま論文
Testuma's Essay at Bridge USA Summer Fest essay

ブライアンとキャシー
Bryan and Cathy

先輩シェル
Senpai Shell

ディズニーランド
Disneyland

佐々木　宗一郎君がダブル優勝
Soichiro got two 1st place in NY!

さよなら　はるき
Sayonara Haruki.

トーランス道場のマイク先輩、ジョー先輩がバンクーバーカップに出場しました
Michael Iriye and Joe Nguyen from Torrance Dojo fought in Canada on Ｍay 2nd 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.

■Ryougo Shimizu, Tomoki Shimizu, Ibuki Hirahara, Atom Kobayashi good bye party at OC Dojo

OC道場Shimizu兄弟（リョウゴとトモキ）、平原イブキ、小林アトム君人の帰国送別会

■Anthoney Monett

Osu to all,

Today, we would like to give special recognition to one of our students, Anthony Monette. ?“Bunbu ryodo” is an old Japanese description of a scholar athlete.?Many believe it's nearly impossible to attain this position. ?However, it becomes possible by applying the Kyokushin Karate principles. ?

Anthony Monette (4 times US Weight Category Campion 2007,08,09 & 2010) 2kyu has accomplished the “Bunbu Ryodo” status this summer. ?

Anthony, at age 14, attended Antelope Valley College this summer. He took two classes and passed both gaining 6 units for college and 20 credits for high school. ?It's a true display of dedication by Anthony, as well as his father.Kyokushin Karate of Los Angeles is proud to have Anthony as its student. Many congratulations to him!

押忍、

「文武両道」という言葉がありますが、時として人はそれを「困難な事」としてとらえがちです。しかし、極真空手で学んだ押忍の精神をもって物事に向かえば、何事でもなしえることは可能だと思います。
アンソニー・モネット2級07年～10年,4年連続ウエイト制大会優勝）がこの度、14歳にしてAntelope Valleyカレッジのサマークラスにて2種類の授業を取り、その両方の試験に合格して大学の6ユニット及び高校の２０クレジットを受け取りました。
これは彼の強い意志と、彼の父の献身的なサポートによるものです。アンソニーの努力をここに皆さんにお知らせしたいと思います。

Sensei Taku Nakasaka

■Testuma Freshman @ Bridge USA Summer Fest essay - Tetsuma Ozawa

My experience of volunteer at the tournament is that they need a lot of help to make the tournament happen. When the tournament begins lot of kids in different size is fighting hardest they can.
The people who is cheering for the fighter are cheering so hard like they are fighting by just cheering. When they are done fighting, some people happy because they won, or crying because they were disappointed of themselves. By knowing at lot of different emotion, I sometime feel the same way as they do.
I know that either you win or lose you go out on the stage you are leaning a good lesson. If you win you will learn that you could use that combo, and when you lose you learn to not to do that again, and how you can improve.
But the best way to learn what to do the next time is when you lose, and understand why you did lose. When you lose but didn’t understand why, you won’t learn that much. The tournament is not only to win and lose, but it is all about testing your skills. When you test your skills, and win first place, that means you have good skills.
To make all the things happen you need lot of people like the judge, fighter, couple of people to call up people, and who keep track of who won, and who lost. People shall be proud of them self for volunteer at the tournament. Imagine when there is no volunteer to help the judge, and call you up, you will not know when to go up to fight, and who wins or loses. If you don’t win or lose, it will be just a fight with no rules because there is no judge to explain to the fighters. I think if I wasn’t there, and nobody to replace me there will be a full of people back stage because I was guarding the back stage door. The best part of volunteer people is lunch time because I got free food that taste good. When you have your friend with you on the same job to guard the door it is better than staying alone because I had someone to talk with, and tell me what’s happening in that fight if I can’t see the fight. That was I felt to be one of the volunteer people.

OSU Tetsuma Ozawa ? Torrance Dojo

■Bryan and Cathy

Bryan and Cathy have moved to Elsinore. Good luck in new town!

ブライアントキャシーがエルセノアに引越してしまいました。　サヨナラ稽古の写真です。

■Senpai Shell

Senpai Shell who tought at Downtown Dojo moved to North Carolina. We had good bye cerebration on Feb 23rd. Thank you for teaching us and good luck!!

ダウンタウンで時々キッズを教えてくれていた先輩シェルがサウスカロライナに引越しする事になり、 2月23日の火曜日にシェル先輩サヨナラ稽古を行いました。先輩シェル、いままでありがとうございました。

■Disneyland

Sensei Taku went to Disneyland for his birthday with his family. Yamamoto san, thank you for the invitation!

琢先生のお誕生日に、中坂家でディズニーランドへ行ってきました。　山本さん、ご招待ありがとうございました。

■Soichiro got TWO 1ST PLACE!

We had only one competitor sent to “All American Open 2009 Karate Championships” http://www.kyokushinkarate.com/ this year from our Dojo.

The ONE COMPETITOR end up coming back with TWO 1ST PLACE TROPHIES.

No one from Kyokushin LA Dojo has never brought two champion title from one tournament before. Soichiro Sasaki (Torrance Dojo)did extremely good job this time.

He fought in 10 years old category Kumite/also participated in Youth Kata competition.

His Kata competition result ?in a morning were very outstanding. His Kata score was very high compare to the other competitors so that when the judges put the scores up,

audiences were ohhing and ahhing.

His Kumite fight had even more noise from audiences because his favorite technique Kaiten do-mawashi (rolling head kick) was delivered to his opponent soon after the fight start(waza-ari).

His final fight was two waza-ari by him so finished with ippon(KO).

Many of the adult top fighters from all over the world, Sensei, Shihan from Japan recognize him as a “little strong kid from LA”.

Congratulations Soichiro!!!

■さよなら　はるき

May 29, 2009 was last day of Haruki Zemsky’s Torrance Dojo Training. He is moving to Oregon State so we did his Sayonara Kumite that day. He trained in Torrance Dojo since January of 2007. He has participated many event in a past two and half years. Good luck to your life! Please visit us when you in California!!

■トーランス道場のマイク先輩、ジョー先輩がバンクーバーカップに出場

マイク先輩、ジョー先輩共、延長戦まで行き、カナダのトップファイターと勇敢に戦いました。　とっても貴重な経験でした。

They both did extension and fought very well with top fighter in Canada. It was very valuable experience.

Tournament was organized well and LA fighters had a very good experience. We definitely wants to come back again with more fighters.