Welcome to our Karate & Martial arts blog

Welcome to our Karate & Martial arts blog

by Sean Schroeder Blog

This blog is a brain dump of sorts regarding karate, and anything martial arts related. Many of these blogs will be of an explorative nature, “what-if” hypothesis based. It’s my attempt to push beyond the rigid environment of “traditional”, “Classical” or “Authentic” Karate/Martial arts.

You are welcome to join me on my mind dumps, comments will be turned on to share input.

A little about me, I hold a 6 Dan Degree Black Belt in Kobayashi-te (Shorin-ryu) & a 7th Dan with the National Karate Jujitsu Federation. Taking what I see at “face value” has never been acceptable to me, just because a movement looks like a punch or a block doesn’t necessarily mean it’s what it looks like. Also, unlike many of my peers I believe that Karate ( open-hand ) and Kobudo “The ancient way” are complimentary, lessons from Kobudo have to be applied to open hand and visa-versa, they are not two distinct things, but are meant to be brought together. I don’t mean that we are going to do an open hand kata with a weapons, but instead the nuances of the concepts overlap.

I look forward to you joining me down this rabbit hole.

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BySean Schroeder

Sean Schroeder has been training and studying Okinawan Shorin-ryu since 1974 under Kyoshi Noel Smith in Virginia Beach. Though he only attended one school, OBI Karate, he has none the less trained with other leading martial artists and learned new concepts, which he has applied to the foundation.Sean believes as a student of Karate, or any martial art, the student learns a foundation and he must build upon it. Much like college students learn from their professors.Sean doesn’t consider Karate as the Japanese consider it, it is not for seeking perfection. Instead, Karate is to be learned to strengthen the mind and body, with the primary intention of becoming formidable, and capable of defending one’s self. It is the art of self-protection, not the art of self-perfection.