Sanseiru video on YouTube

We have added a new video to YouTube. Some insights into Sanseiru kata. 

 https://youtu.be/5ZdXe02wreQ

Welcome to 2021!

Hi all

There isn't a lot of news. Most of the world is still locked down. Perhaps more now than it was a couple of months ago. The new strain of Covid-19 is leading to more restrictions, especially around international travel.

The vaccine is on the horizon, the world may get safer, and we may be able to travel again. For now we have hopes and aspirations, but no plans. We have not scheduled a Gasshuku in Okinawa for 2021. We will get a better idea of how that might eventuate if or how the delayed Olympics happen. 

In the meantime, keep training, and keep communicating.

Sensei Aivaras Engelaitis has a Facebook Group called  "Tairabunkai basics and fundamentals" with about 1400 members now. Aivaras has taken on the burden of trying to lift the level of students so that they may get more benefit from attending future Taira Sensei seminars. Have a look!

Let's all hope that 2021 is a better year, and we progress to a more satisfactory version of "normal"

Status Update

 Just so you don't think we all stopped training.   The international situation with the COVID-19 virus has disrupted travel everywhere. Entry into Japan is restricted from most of the world, with quarantine requirements. Other countries are in a similar situation. So it's impractical to assume that there will be events in Japan any time soon, or that Sensei will be able to travel to present seminars. 

There has been a bit of activity in Europe. Sensei Aivaras Engelaitis has been running Tairabunkai Fundamentals seminars in Lithuania. If you can travel in Europe, that would have been accessible to you.

Australia has various levels of lockdown, as has New Zealand. International travel is out, and trans-Tasman travel the same. Even interstate in Australia is limited. 

I understand it is similar in the USA, and the border between Canada and the US is  heavily restricted.

The best we can offer is that we have put a few more videos on our YouTube! channel of Sensei teaching.

Kenkyukai students are keen to reconnect, and we're watching and waiting. 

NY and Ontario seminars, and the International Seminar have been cancelled

The continuing COVID-19 situation around the world, and travel restrictions to/from the USA have resulted in the cancellation of the last scheduled seminars for 2020.

We will not be holding seminars in New York or Ontario. The international Okinawa Goju Ryu Kenkyukai seminar scheduled for November in Okinawa has also been cancelled.

Doubtless when the internation situation improves and travel can resume we will begin to schedule new events.

Lithuania cancelled

Canada and New Jersey cancelled now too.

Mountain Martial Arts' Sensei Mark Kapel announces:


Our annual seminar with Taira Sensei has been postponed. We will reschedule our seminar once it's possible. Participants who registered can either have their seminar fee returned or they can use it to secure their spot in our next seminar with Taira Sensei.

The Paris seminar has been cancelled

Nous avons le regret d'annoncer l'annulation du séminaire 2020 de Taira sensei en France en raison de la situation liée au covid 19

We regret to announce the cancellation of the 2020 seminar of Taira sensei in France due to the situation linked to covid 19