About this instructor:
David Oddy, chief instructor of Syracuse Jundokan, has been practicing karate for over 30 years including 3 years in Okinawa, Japan where he trained directly with Miyazato Eiichi Sensei and other senior students at The Jundokan, Okinawa Goju-ryu’s main dojo. He has also had the opportunity to train with many senior teachers and coaches over the years, both in the United States and in Japan.
David is a student of Taira Masaji Sensei, formerly a senior member of The Jundokan So Honbu Dojo, and continues to visit on an annual basis for personal instruction in Okinawa, Japan. His current focus and passion is on the depth of combative applications within goju-ryu kata.
Prior to shifting his focus to a purely traditional practice, David had a successful competitive career. In addition to many local and regional tournament wins, David has won five US National Championships from the USA-NKF and its predecessors as the US Olympic Committee’s recognized governing bodies for the sport of karate. Two of these were during a brief return to competition in 2006, exactly 20 years after his first national championship victory.
He also represented the United States at the 1989 Goodwill Games against the Japanese Junior Team and on the 1994 US National Karate Team at the WKF World Championships in Malaysia. The WKF (World Karate Federation) is the International Olympic Committee's recognized international governing body for the sport of karate.
Topics:
Practical Combative Applications of Okinawa Karate:
Bring your kata to life with real-world combative applications that work where it counts: outside the dojo against a non-compliant partner. Participants in this session will learn how to make kata applications work against an opponent rather than with a partner. Using proven combative principles, and without changing the kata, this session will be particularly interesting to those who would like to understand the true value of traditional kata as a practical means to develop effective fighting skills. It will also be an opportunity for those who attended last year’s session to build upon what they learned.
Winning Traditional Sparring Matches:
Learn the important criteria to winning traditional sparring competition. Using warm-up routines, drills and techniques used in elite-level international competition, this session will teach you how to prepare for matches and how to seize scoring opportunities. Success starts with a thorough understanding of technical standards and participants will learn how to clearly demonstrate the six scoring criteria used to award points used by our national governing body for the sport of karate. There is nothing more frustrating to an athlete than having their techniques waved off – after this session it need never happen again! |
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