Seido Karate links

Some of Sensei Tom's favorite martial arts related sites:

• World Seido Karate Organization Honbu (Headquarters), in New York City.
• Other Maryland Seido Karate branches
• Howard County Seido Karate, where I train with my sensei, Kyoshi Kate Stewart.

Of course all Seido karate programs are our friends - more, our family! But there are a few where I've had special opportunities to visit and train:

• Thousand Waves Seido Karate, Jun Shihan Nancy Lanoue and Kyoshi Sarah Ludden's wonderful school in Chicago.
• Aichi Seido Karate, Nagoya, Japan. Jun Shihan Toshihide Sawahira and his students welcomed Seido members from all over the world to Nagoya for their tournament in the fall of 2007.
• Kansai Seido, Osaka, Japan, Senpai Toshiyuki Kuwa and his family and wonderful students welcomed me most graciously when I spent spring of 2007 in Japan. Thanks to them I had the unique opportunity to not just train, but to teach karate in Japan.

(I hope to keep adding to this list!)

Other Seido-related sites:

• Sei Shihan Christopher Caile runs the on-line magazine FightingArts.com
• Video links:
  • Karate demo at Madison Square Garden with Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura, founder of Seido Karate, and Shuseki-shihan William Oliver.
  • A video segement about Seido's program for blind students in New York City
  • Some basic self-defense advice from Jun Shihan Nancy Lanoue of Thousand Waves Seido Karate in Chicago

Other martial arts links

• The CyberDojo, a karate e-mail discussion list founded by Howard High, a fine fellow.
• Kaicho Hoosain Narker, of Ashihara Karate, stayed at my house for a few days during his trip across the U.S., and threw me around the dojo a bit. He runs the Sabaki e-mail list.

Other links

• EarthTouch Shiatsu, Sensei Tom's shiatsu ("acupressure massage") practice