Osu! Following the Dothan Tournament Shihan Greg Turnbull will be holding a full contact clinic from 11am to 2pm at Mr. Culbreth's dojo on Sunday October 30.

 

 

 

Please pass this along to all students. 

 

For further information contact:

Shihan Dai Josh Mc Cullars

 

An Inspiration to each one of us !

Happy 67th Birthday and a long and happy Life to Kaicho Toyama ! 

Kaicho Toyama and Shihan Paul Turner

Free Knockdown Training Seminar

A Southeast Knockdown Training session will be held on September 19, 2015 from 10am to 12 pm at the Friendship Community Center in Oxford, AL.

We will focus on Drills, Pad work, and sparring for Japanese Full contact karate competition.

This workout is free of charge and open to children and adults of all styles.

Do not miss this opportunity to hone your skills with some of our best fighters. 
 

For more information 

please contact Shihan Dai Josh Mc Cullars

• by phone at  256 499 1400 or 
• by email at mccullars2@gmail.com

Shihan Dai Josh Mc Cullars

WYKKO Summer Camp, Part II: Quality of Instruction & the Importance of Evaluations

This is the second of a series of 3 articles about our coming Summer Camp on June 12, 2015.

The planning team works hard to craft a schedule with some of the best instructors in our style. Our camp instructors want to help you and are excited to share their knowledge and experience with you. Our instructors plan ahead and prepare to teach, so please remember to thank each of your instructors this Summer Camp because we could not hold such excellent events without their dedication and support.

Many of our instructors cross train and have a lot of skills to share with you outside of our traditional Yoshukai curriculum that will help you augment your training. Our goal in offering these non-traditional classes is to expose you to other areas of study that may help your Yoshukai skills, for example when designing self-defense routines or combinations.

Kaicho Mike Culberth - Shihan Dennis Trawick

 

You’ll notice that the majority of our camp instructors are certified WYKKO instructors, many of whom have their own schools and/or are fourth degree black belts or higher.  Camp instructors who are not official WYKKO instructors get to teach at our camps because they have been recommended by other instructors and have extensive teaching experience in their own dojo. If you are a black belt and are interested in teaching a class at one of our camps, please email or talk to any of the organizers.

Finally, every summer camp, we’ve asked you to complete course and instructor evaluations. We want to take a moment to thank you so much for doing that. We take them seriously and the information you’ve given us in the past is a large part of what determines what classes we’ll offer in the future. That said, as wildly popular as they may have been, you won’t see some classes (like environmental fighting or weapons disarming) offered every year. But absence makes the heart grow fonder, and you’ll surely see them offered again in 2016.  We’re always looking for new classes to offer, so if you have any ideas (no matter what your rank is), please contact me. We appreciate any feedback that we receive from participants, parents, guests, and our instructors, as that is what ensures that each camp is better and better than the last.

We hope that you are as excited as we are to attend this year’s Summer Camp, and we can’t wait to see you all there.

Osu!
 

Sherrie Hines, on behalf of the WYKKO Camp Planning Team

Kobudo Cross Training

On March 6, 2015, 5 Yoshukai Yudansha: Mrs Yoko Hamada Hollyfield, shihan Travis Page, shihan Robert Johnson, shihan Fred Lecut and Brian Orlich participated in a Jo Jutsu seminar by Carl Long Hanshi at the Pensacola Big Green Drum Dojo.

A shorter, thinner version of the Bo, the Jo can be carried as a walking stick, and is designed mostly for use against sword.

 

Cross Training is good. There is always something to learn by training with good people. Look around, study, train with other styles, and bring it back to Wykko !

Shindo Muso-ryu Jo Jutsu was founded circa 1605 by Muso Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi, following his defeat (with a bo) against famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Having engaged in a pilgrimage around Japan (shugyo - as in "Shugyosha go kun") he reached illumination and designed the shorter weapon and created the Jo techniques which allowed him to defeat Miyamoto Musashi during a new duel.