For a initial time EVER students of Inoue-ha Shito-ryu Karate get a possibility to infer themselves opposite alternative practitioners of a same character from all over a globe. Sep 19th, 2010, we took a thrust as great as got in a automobile for what would be an incredibly eventful day. After 4 an a half hours, 5 times of re-entering a residence in my GPS, lots of H2O as great as ponds(via Everglades), as great as carrying to ask directions from multiform respectful gas hire workers, we arrived during a Hotel in that a eventuality was being held. As we walked in we rught away was impressed by a smell of sweat, as great as a shaken energy. we was means to follow a orange immature signs indicating up a hall, down a side, by a shop, up 2 floors of escalators, a discerning stop outside, as great as a vast corridor that led to a dance hall in that it was held. Never have we seen so many people wearing white robes, not often colored belts, as great as my personal favorite… LOTS of hair gel.  we walked onto a categorical building as great as speckled 7-8 blue as great as red squares about twenty by twenty feet each. In front of any square, there was a list in that time keepers, measure keepers, as great as judges sat. At any side of a mat, judges sat with a single blue flag, as great as a single red dwindle in both hands to vigilance a winner. When 2 competitors have finished their forms opposite eachother, any decider raises his or her dwindle in a preference of a tone of leather belt a aspirant they consider won is wearing. The aspirant with a infancy of a judges flags in their preference wins, as great as progresses to a subsequent round. There was additionally a steel protecting palm rail starting around a finish opening area, as great as a comparatively vast warm-up area as well. Up upon a pedestal sat a Grandmaster, as great as his conduct instructors during an glorious vantage point, as great as a vast twenty-five ft. table. When it was time to start, he stood up, pronounced a couple of words, as great as a games began. [Read more...]