PSKC finished 2nd in overall points at Young’s Tournament on October 15th.

Sensei Lindsay Faust won Women’s Grand Championship Sparring.

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On Tuesday (9/20), PSKC members honoured the 108th anniversary of Tatsuo Shimabuku’s birthday (9/19/1908) with a special demonstration that included:

• Karate & Isshin Ryu historical video

• Upper/Lower basics with breaking

• Kata demonstrations – Naihanchi, Sanchin & Sunsu

• Self-defense techniques from Tatsuo’s Kumite drills

Congratulations to Laura Egan on earning her Nidan.  In August, she returned to Japan for another year of teaching English.

The Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games are held each year at Penn State University in State College.  The event brings together over 2,000 athletes and 750 coaches from across the state.  Our largest event of the year, Summer Games features three days of intense competition in aquatics, athletics, basketball, bowling, equestrian, golf, gymnastics, softball and tennis.  Every race, every game, every competition held at Summer Games represents many weeks of training, preparation and dedication on the part of our athletes, coaches and volunteers.
http://www.specialolympicspa.org/sports-competitions/competitions/summer-games

We’re organizing a Penn State Karate Club volunteer team to help with the track & field events on June 4th.  If you are available, get in touch with us.

This is last summer’s volunteer team:

Young’s Spring 2016 Tournament, Bellefonte, PA.

By looking at kata through the equally important eyes of health and skill, the plethora of applications becomes apparent. It’s like unraveling a knot, you examine the skills and see how they can be applied to striking, blocking, locking, throwing, dislocation, evasion and entering and you realize that what you have is a method of training a complete skill base that can be unraveled into a complete arsenal of techniques.

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