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Iain AbernethySome of of students went to see Iain Abernethy recently. If enough people are interested we might be able to get him down for a seminar. Thoughts? |
| Adam Onesti |
That sounds interesting. How did people find it when they went to see him? |
| superhybridfighter |
Iain Abernethy(Kobujutsu) Myself, my co-instructor and two of our students attended the Iain Abernethy seminar, It was a very informative seminar based on the use of ground fighting in a real fight situation.All of Iain Abernethy's techniques can be found within the Kata of Karate. He is also a friend of such respected martial artists as Geoff Thompson, Peter Consterdine, Mo Teague and Doug James to name a few and trains with them regularly. I would thoroughly recomend inviting him to our Dojo to do a seminar. His approach to Karate is the perfect compliment to Sasori-Te Karate-Jutsu as His Karate is based on the Wado Ryu style and strongly emphasizes the importance of Kata as the backbone of Karate as opposed to the modern competition approach. |
| Q |
I found the Iain Abernethy seminar really helpful in understanding the bunkai as I have previously trained in traditional Wado Ryu to 1st Kyu.
In particular I enjoyed the application of Naihanchi for groundwork. Although any martial artist would have benefited by the applications covered, it would be of particular interest of Wado based practitioners. Iain also mentioned a translation of Anko Itosu’s 10 precepts of karate. The translation was carried out my a non martial artist, so can be taken on face value. Have a look on http://blog.iainabernethy.com/?p=81 and see what you think. Itosu was the creator of the Pinan series kata. |
| fairyninja |
he said yesI emailed him and he said he would be happy to do a seminar for us, as he is up and down the country all the time, we just have to give him a date when we would like him to come down and what we would like him to do. Also would anyone be interested in going on a trip to visit his dojo in th summer?????? |
| Q |
Check out the Iain Abernethy photos from Dec 2007 - There is one of me on the receiving end of a restraint courtesy of Steve. 
A couple of Dave and Jade as well. http://www.bushi.org.uk/iain%20abernethy%20seminar%2010.html Cheers, Darran. |
| Adam Onesti |
Since the seminar in Bridgewater fell through til September, any chance we can get Iain down here before then?
(heh, I'd really like to say go for the 3rd of May, but may be a bit to short notice!!) |
| fairyninja |
It will cost £500 to get him down, thts a lot of money dude. We already looked into it |
| Adam Onesti |
OH well! Thats quite a bit actually! |
| fairyninja |
BTW who are you? |
| Adam Onesti |
My names Adam (username gives that away!  ) I do karate and recently started Aikido.
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| fairyninja |
yh wht grade r u, and wht do u look like cause i dnt think i seen u about an i work at the dojo! |
| Mark |
I know who he is Jade, His name's Adam haha gets dizzy doing Aikido 
How come I know and you've trained with him for longer and don't huh? |
| Adam Onesti |
yep! though I didn't this Wednesday, which was all good. I actually went to the doctor about it and was told I need to alter my posture at work, as it was giving me headaches which were then causing me to get dizzy... oh well!
Right, it Karate there are 3 Adam's. 1 Adam has been going for quite some time, one Adam is a Londoner, I'm the other Adam! |
| fairyninja |
im still confused as to who u are lol, i really cant think, what belt r u? will u be in tomoro?? |
| Adam Onesti |
Hi I'm a red at the moment. I used to do monday nights but have recently switched to Wednesday nights, so I can do aikido afterwards. Will say hello next time I see you! |