Seibukan Karate Dojo Edmonton

A different ocean from Okinawa's.

Hirtle's Beach, Nova Scotia.

Our class learnng Tokumine no Kun.

For me, vacation means karate somewhere else: a foggy afternoon in Rose Bay, Nova Scotia.

Brynn with the amazing Yagi Akihito Sensei and Sensei Alan Sadler at a Meibukan seminar in London, UK.

Left: Saturday morning class in Edmonton.

Right: Saturday afternoon solo training in Toronto.

人心同天地
Jinshin dō tenchi

The human spirit is one with Heaven and Earth

A Shotokan booklet signed by Naka Tetsuya Sensei 中 達也先生, when Lucy and I were in a small group that trained with him for a few hours at JKA headquarters in Tokyo.

Outdoor class on Tuesday evening.

It’s grand and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

JM Barrie

Junot Diaz captured exactly how I feel about myself and karate:

"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden.

"In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am."