A Karate Story by Seamus O'Dowd

Author:Seamus O'Dowd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nintai Publications
Published: 2016-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Then Kanazawa Sensei surprised me. He told me that he wanted me to teach the kata to Nobuaki Sensei. He explained that they were both always travelling and did not get to spend time together, so maybe I would get to spend some time teaching his son. This was an honour for me, but it was not such a simple task to complete. I did not get to see Nobuaki Sensei for some time, and when I did there was no time for us to train together with the Bo.

The next time I saw Kanazawa Sensei, he asked me if I had taught the kata to his son. I explained that I hadn’t had the chance to do it yet. A few months later it was the same story, so I decided to do something about it. I got a camcorder and recorded the kata slowly and at normal speed from a couple of different angles, and put this onto a DVD, which I gave to Nobuaki Sensei.

A few months later I was in Scotland again with Kanazawa Sensei, hosted once again by Sensei Jim Palmer. We were enjoying a lovely day out on a boat cruise around Loch Lomond, and he asked me again about teaching the Bo kata to Nobuaki Sensei, so I told him what I had done. He was very pleased with this solution. As we talked, he seemed to like the idea of the DVD very much. Then he suggested that maybe I could make a proper DVD of his Bo teachings. I couldn’t believe what he was suggesting, but I promised to do whatever I could to help him.

By this time, I was not only doing the first kata that I had initially learned, but I was also now studying the second version of the kata, which had been developed after the first. Because the first kata (now more correctly called ‘Kanazawa No Bo Dai’) is very dynamic and athletic, the second kata (‘Kanazawa No Bo Sho’) was developed to suit older or less athletic karate-ka. Kanazawa Sensei strongly believes that karate is for everyone, so it made sense that his Bo kata should have a version for both young and old, or for the athletic and not so athletic.

SKIF Headquarters requested that I put a contract in place for the production of the DVD, and provide a draft outline of what would be on the DVD. It took time, but eventually, nearly ten years after I initially learned the kata, I had a formal business contract to do the DVD jointly with Kanazawa Sensei.

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