What is your favourite Kata in Karate --if it's not a secret and you can mention it?

The first of the advanced forms starts at Saifa. I enjoy all Kata because I go through their movements and their applications of what the techniques are actually used for in real life situations. I particularly like Seiunchin,

Sanseiru, Seisan, Seipai & the Suparinpei.

Is there any chance you be demonstrating any of these Katas on your website in the future?

Ha Ha! We’ll see...

Firstly, I reinforce to all students that they should show respect & courtesy at all times. Students are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to approach me so I can help them in their Karate development. I reinforce in my training that every person has the ability to show human kindness, wisdom, compassion & respect. I have devotion to my students. It involves making sacrifices, for both student & teacher. A devotion to help others.

I am strict, but more importantly, I am fair. Our close connection to the source and tradition requires that I be. However, I make sure that the technique a student is doing is appropriate to their particular skill level. I try to allow the students to understand the reason why they are doing a particular technique, based on traditional knowledge and modern and correct body movement and biomechanics. This is for the purpose to increase their understanding of how their body works, to make their mind & body more effective – to become one.

Spirituality stands out for you as a major part of your Martial Arts training for both yourself and your students. How does being spiritual benefit or assist you in your everyday life?

Karate teaches a student the importance of devotion.

heartedly without reserve. Lacking this sort of commitment Zen becomes mere ritual and the Martial Art devolves into mere sport.

Concentration means “all out” total release of energy & it should be the same in every act of our life. But if you have exhausted all your energy, you can take in fresh energy, flowing like the water in the stream. Spirit is what matters first; technique & body come afterward. “It is always Shin, your spirit, that decides your fate in the battle of life”.

Air contains energy & life from the universe, which we receive through our lungs & every cell in our bodies & so it is important to know how to breathe. Being spiritual harmonises the hard & the soft. Being spiritual makes a person - more efficient, corrects errors, looks, acts & feels sharp. This allows a person to live in reality, be self-controlled, and better know themself. Spirit and wisdom enables us to learns from everything, and every experience; enabling happiness from great the greatest source: in the ‘inside’. Spirit develops with age.