SHOTOKAN KARATE ACADEMY , ROURKELA , ORISSA.







The World Shotokan Karate-Do Federation India was formed under guidance of The Chief Instructor of WSKF, INDIA, Sensei Sattrajit Chaudhury, a former National Champion and a Semi-Finalist in the 1997 & 2000 World Championship, is having experience of more than two decades in different facets of Karate. He started his training of Shotokan Karate in early seventies under Sensei Anil Sinha, who first introduced Shotokan Karate in India. WSKFI is the fastest growing Karate Organization in India with more than 7000 students practicing regularly. OBJECTIVES OF WSKFI The main objective of WSKFI is to create a consolidated movement for popularizing the true form of Shotokan Karate in India, where many instructors are teaching one or other form of karate and most of them in a diluted version. WSKFI is creating an awareness among these karate practitioners, so that, they can come in the main stream of authentic Shotokan karate. WSKFI also aims to raise the karate standard of Indian Karatekas to the International level so that in future they can bring laurels for the country. The steps towards achieving these goals are: 1. To organise Training Camps under foreign (Japanese) instructors. 2. Exposure in International Championship in India and abroad. As a first step towards achieving the objectives, the organization invites Sensei Hitoshi Kasuya, the Chief Instructor from Japan every year for advance training camp for the members of the federation so that they get authentic International Karate exposure. Members of WSKFI regularly take part in International Karate Championship / Seminars in different countries. WSKFI has got training centers in 18 states of India and is a recognized organization by ALL INDIA KARATE-DO FEDERATION (AIKF), which is the only karate organization recognized by GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS







































































































Saturday, December 26, 2009

THE SHOTOKAN TIGER




Taro no maki (The Shotokan Tiger)
TORA NO MAKI - The Shotokan Tiger The Shotokan Tiger is the icon that symbolises Funakoshi Gichin Sensei’s style of unarmed combat. The drawing was originally created by a Japanese man named Hoan Kosugi who was a friend and student of Funakoshi Sensei, the founder of Shotokan Ryu Karate. Kosugi was instrumental in convincing Funakoshi Sensei to both teach Karate in Japan, and to write his knowledge of Karate into a book, and promised he would design the book and make a painting for the cover. The painting was used to illustrate the cover of Funakoshi Sensei’s book KARATE- DO KYOHAN. In Japanese tradition, the official written document of an art, or system, that is used as a definitive reference source for that particular art, is termed “Tora No Maki” (master text / scroll). Kosugi told Funakoshi Sensei his Karate-Do Kyohan was the Tora No Maki of karate and since “Tora” also means tiger, he designed the tiger as a representation of Funakoshi Sensei’s art. The irregular appearance of the circle itself suggests that it was drawn free hand and with one continuous stroke of his brush. The kanji found in the upper right hand corner is Hoan Kosugi's own name.
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