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admin · Site Admin Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 18

Some 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 · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 23

That sounds interesting. How did people find it when they went to see him?

superhybridfighter · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Taunton

(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.
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Q · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Bagborough

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 · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: he said yes

I 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 · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Bagborough

Check out the Iain Abernethy photos from Dec 2007 - There is one of me on the receiving end of a restraint courtesy of Steve. Smile

A couple of Dave and Jade as well.
http://www.bushi.org.uk/iain%20abernethy%20seminar%2010.html
Cheers,
Darran.

Adam Onesti · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 23

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 · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject:

It will cost £500 to get him down, thts a lot of money dude. We already looked into it

Adam Onesti · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 23

OH well! Thats quite a bit actually!

fairyninja · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject:

BTW who are you?