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Because SnippetFact.com is a project designed to improve the quality of online factual content, we want to promote and encourage this on other websites too! Mesa-te.blogspot.com was awarded the "KARATE" award for one or more of the following reasons:
- Accurate and precise informational content.
- Interesting and inviting layout and/or writing style.
- Reliable source for trustworthy content.
- Unique and entertaining information.
From our martial arts school (dojo in Arizona) to Snippets in the United Kingdom - Thank you for recognizing our blog by presenting this award for content and layout. We work hard to inform the public about martial arts traditions, history, culture and training and are excited to see we are being recognized for our efforts.
The Arizona School of Traditional Karate in Mesa is a Traditional Martial Arts School with ties to Seiyo Kai International, a traditional Okinawa Martial Arts Association.
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| Kobudo, the ancient martial art of Okinawan Martial Arts Weapons is blended with Shorin-Ryu Karate at our martial arts school in Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona. Since the early beginning of karate on Okinawa, Kobudo was always practiced along with karate - one did not have to wait to obtain a black belt. It has always been this way. Karate and Kobudo are like riding a 2-wheeled bicycle. Both wheels are needed to work. Same with karate - you cannot have one without the other. Seiyo Shorin-Ryu karate students begin learning Kobudo the first time they show up to a Thursday evening class. |
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| Traditions are very important in karate. We have a large kamidana at the front of our martial arts school |
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| Soke Hausel, Shorin-Ryu Karate (Seiyo Kai), instructs students from around the world as well as to students in the Phoenix East Valley. Here, students from Utah Shorin-Kai train in Meikyo Kata and bunkai (applications). Meikyo kata translates as "polishing mirror form"/ |