NACKC Archives - North American Karate Federation https://nakf.net/tag/nackc/ NAKF/NACKC - The Home of Tabata-Ha Shotokan Karate-Do Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:36:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/nakf.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-cropped-Black-and-Gold-NAKF-small512.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 NACKC Archives - North American Karate Federation https://nakf.net/tag/nackc/ 32 32 208963828 Welcome Post University to the NAKF/NACKC! https://nakf.net/2025/04/11/welcome-post-university-to-the-nakf-nackc/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:36:32 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=2072 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!

The post Welcome Post University to the NAKF/NACKC! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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!

The post Welcome Post University to the NAKF/NACKC! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 2072 Thank you for a Successful Spring 2025 Tournament! https://nakf.net/2025/04/11/thank-you-for-a-successful-spring-2025-tournament/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:14:23 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=2034 Thanks to everyone for the great turnout and spirit at today’s NACKC April 2025 Tournament! Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. And thanks to our hosts at Clark University. See you all again soon!

The post Thank you for a Successful Spring 2025 Tournament! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> Thanks to everyone for the great turnout and spirit at today’s NACKC April 2025 Tournament! Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. And thanks to our hosts at Clark University. See you all again soon!

The post Thank you for a Successful Spring 2025 Tournament! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 2034 Remembering Special Training, 1978! https://nakf.net/2025/03/15/remembering-special-training-1978/ Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:05:43 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=2016 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 post with a record of what […]

The post Remembering Special Training, 1978! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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 post with a record of what happened at an old Special Training, here!]

The post Remembering Special Training, 1978! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 2016 Pics: First Tufts University Practice of the Fall Semester https://nakf.net/2023/09/12/pics-first-tufts-university-practice-of-the-fall-semester/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:27:08 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=1542 Looks like it was a great first workout for the Tufts University NACKC club tonight, with Sensei Jordan Berry back for another great year! Keep at it!

The post Pics: First Tufts University Practice of the Fall Semester appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> Looks like it was a great first workout for the Tufts University NACKC club tonight, with Sensei Jordan Berry back for another great year! Keep at it!

The post Pics: First Tufts University Practice of the Fall Semester appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 1542 Remembering the Tufts Club: 1967-1969 https://nakf.net/2023/08/08/remembering-the-tufts-club-1967-1969/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:20:29 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=1496 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 Work and Kicking” https://youtu.be/bJRDTzVhu0g “I was […]

The post Remembering the Tufts Club: 1967-1969 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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 Work and Kicking” https://youtu.be/bJRDTzVhu0g

“I was in the Tufts Karate Club in 1967 – 69 led by Mr. Tabata, Mr. Muoroka [sic: we think “Maruoka”] and Mr. Kowabura. Mr. Kowabura didn’t know what to do with me, the only girl.”

So we immediately messaged her and asked for any stories she might like to share!

“Stories? I may have a few. Mr. Muroaka was the only one of the three sensei who could speak English well, but one day while sparring, he was kicked in the jaw, breaking it. Instead of speaking well he could hardly speak at all with his jaw wired.

Then there was the time when we were sparring and I missed and actually hit him. He (Mr. Muroaka) just bopped me back right on the nose. I learned my lesson!

The last time I saw Mr. Muroaka was at a good-bye party just before he left in a VW bus with the intention of driving to South America looking for diamonds. I’ve always wondered how far he got.

Several of us went to Mr. Tabata’s apartment one evening and drank sake with him. I clearly remember him rolling the windows down on the drive home so that he could yell at all the pretty girls he saw on the street.

I remember the discipline, standing in a kibadachi stance with someone on my shoulders for fifteen minutes. As the only girl in the club I was very proud when I defeated all the boys in a round robin tournament and got to be Captain of the club.

Unfortunately I left Tufts half way through my third year. I tried other karate classes over the years, but never found a sensei as inspirational as Mr. Tabata.”

Martha, thank you so much for sharing your memories. This is one of the reasons we are still here!

The post Remembering the Tufts Club: 1967-1969 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 1496 Carnegie Mellon University Mumon Karate Club Promotion! https://nakf.net/2023/05/01/carnegie-mellon-university-mumon-karate-club-promotion/ Mon, 01 May 2023 21:34:31 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=1312 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, Brian -8th Kyu!!

The post Carnegie Mellon University Mumon Karate Club Promotion! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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, Brian -8th Kyu!!

The post Carnegie Mellon University Mumon Karate Club Promotion! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 1312 Tufts University Karate Club Promotees! https://nakf.net/2023/04/28/tufts-university-karate-club-promotees/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:17:35 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=1306 Congratulations to the two new yellow belts and their Sensei. Last workout of the semester. See you in the fall!

The post Tufts University Karate Club Promotees! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> Congratulations to the two new yellow belts and their Sensei. Last workout of the semester. See you in the fall!

The post Tufts University Karate Club Promotees! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 1306 Tufts University Club: Pics from Practice Feb. 1 https://nakf.net/2023/02/05/tufts-university-club-pics-from-practice-feb-1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 22:50:41 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=1143 Here are a few pics of the club having a great training at Remis Sculpture Court on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Hope to see even more folks there this next Wednesday!

The post Tufts University Club: Pics from Practice Feb. 1 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> Here are a few pics of the club having a great training at Remis Sculpture Court on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Hope to see even more folks there this next Wednesday!

The post Tufts University Club: Pics from Practice Feb. 1 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 1143 Video: NACKC College Karate Tournament, 1988 https://nakf.net/2022/11/28/video-nackc-college-karate-tournament-1988/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:29:52 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=961 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. Were you there? Have any memories? […]

The post Video: NACKC College Karate Tournament, 1988 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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.

Were you there? Have any memories? Leave a comment on the YouTube video!

The post Video: NACKC College Karate Tournament, 1988 appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 961 Trinity Catholic Academy Kids Receive Their Uniforms and Patches! https://nakf.net/2022/11/25/trinity-catholic-academy-kids-receive-their-uniforms-and-patches/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:18:34 +0000 https://nakf.net/?p=941 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!

The post Trinity Catholic Academy Kids Receive Their Uniforms and Patches! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 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!

The post Trinity Catholic Academy Kids Receive Their Uniforms and Patches! appeared first on North American Karate Federation.

]]> 941