Recently I had a conversation with Boon Heng Lee Sensei from Hong Kong about Karatedo in general and Keishinkan Karate in particular. Boon Heng Lee Sensei trained Keishinkan in Singapore in the mid-1970s.
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Barry Billups
4/20/2018 06:33:27 pm
I have been watching your site about Toyama sensei for a few weeks. I began my studies of Keishinkan karate in 1972. I was still in the kyu grades when the kata began to change. I felt then, as I feel now, that changing to the Shotokan forms and ignoring the traditional was a mistake.
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Christian Bellina
4/20/2018 07:49:56 pm
Dear Billups Sensei,
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Barry Billups
4/22/2018 10:41:07 pm
Sesei, 4/22/2018 04:33:04 pm
I began under Robert Yarbrough and Jim Nelson who taught me "the old way" before the change. I had come from Sensei Tomasaburo Okano and Kenkojuku Shotokan because of the uniqueness of the kata...then in 70s Takazawa Sensei began changing them to look like Shotokan. He sdked me to do the new way which I agreed until one of us died...he did 1st do I now do ant teach the old way as taught to Jim Nelson and Bill Dye!
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Christian Bellina
4/22/2018 08:36:31 pm
Thank you for your post and thank you for supporting my book project with great information a few years ago
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Boon Heng, Lee
4/26/2018 07:11:56 pm
Hi sensei, I am curious how the Kata in the past before
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Christian Bellina
4/27/2018 07:11:47 am
Dear Lee Sensei,
Boon Heng, Lee
4/27/2018 08:00:43 am
That's true. Even when I was in Singapore keishinkan, the movements and timing were also unique on its own. Some of the sempai were telling me that we were the offspring from Shotokan and so there were definite differences. Seemed that everyone was quite clueless about the actual history of keishinkan.
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Chris Chan
3/7/2020 03:52:19 pm
HI Sensei Lee. i chance upon this blog when i am looking for Keishinkan history. This Karate style was mention to me by Sensei Leow Kwok In. He is one of my Senseis in Singapore. I ask him if your name rings a bell to him and Sensei Leow mention he used to help run errand for u like paying electricity bills. If you would be interested to connect with him again , i can pass u his number. Oss.
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John Fulton
2/2/2021 11:52:01 am
Hello from Tasmania (Australia).
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