Tag: NACKC

Welcome Post University to the NAKF/NACKC!

Please join us in welcoming Post University to the NACKC family! Our newest club held their first practice the other day with founder James Stephen Lee and a group of visiting black belts to get things rolling. Welcome guys!...

Remembering Special Training, 1978!

Thanks to Steve Palmer for sending along his record of Sensei Tabata’s Special Training on the Weekend of March 17, 18, 19 of 1978 held at Boston University. Steve was riding herd on the U Lowell Club and took notes. Looks like everyone made it through! [P.S. There’s another...

Remembering the Tufts Club: 1967-1969

We got a great comment on one of our YouTube videos recently and with permission of the author, Martha Grant, we thought we’d share it and a selection of the subsequent email exchange with everyone! The comment was on the video “Shotokan Karate Master Kazumi Tabata Early Footage Partner...

Carnegie Mellon University Mumon Karate Club Promotion!

The Mumon karate club at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh conducted a kyu test on April 27. Godan Mark Weingarden, Yodan Chuck Moyes and Nidan Doug Gilbert led the test. Congratulations to the following students: Ela Gulsen-3rd Kyu and Alan EsQuenazi -3rd, yu, Dewang Sun-3rd Kyu, Sebastian Garcia-6th Kyu,...

Video: NACKC College Karate Tournament, 1988

Thanks to BU alum Steve Kemball-Cook for sending along this video of the April 1988 NECKC (now NACKC) college tournament. What schools were there? We think we see BU, Tufts, BC, MIT, WNEC, ULowell, Fitchburg, UMass Dartmouth…who else? Let us know! The tournament was held at Tufts’ Cousens Gym....

Trinity Catholic Academy Kids Receive Their Uniforms and Patches!

Congratulations to the kids at Trinity Catholic Academy in Southbridge, MA who got their uniforms and NACKC (they’re college bound, after all!) patches the other day. Congratulations as well to Gregory Cumings who taught this free program on behalf of the NAKF/NACKC. The kids look great!...