On Saturday, March 14, and Sunday, March 15, from 9 am to 6 pm a seminar will be held at the Kanshukai dojo with Sensei Luiz Monteiro. All Uechi-Ryu students are welcome to attend.
These seminars will feature IUKF Grandmaster, Sensei George Mattson, teaching Uechi Ryu principles and IUKF president, Sensei Darin Yee, also a master of several kungfu systems teaching Chinese understandings and usage for our Uechi Ryu movements.
Sensei Mattson and Sensei Yee will be there several days after the seminars. They will be available to work with individuals or groups. Arrangements with either sensei are required.
The cost of these seminars is $60 Brazil currency or approximately $15 US.
On October 24th, Steve Vosa’s dojo in Albuquerque, New Mexico hosted Sensei Darin Yee to share his Uechi Ryu concepts with various Kung Fu interpretations with students. Sensei Yee had the opportunity to workout with IUKF members, Mia and Trevor Parker, along with our gracious host Steve Vosa.
At the seminar, attendees participated in drills and discussions from Sensei Darin Yee. Darin Yee would like to thank Steve Vosa’s students for their gracious hospitality and the opportunity to share these concepts.
Sensei Darin Yee wanted to share a few words on the seminar, please read below:
“I appreciate the fact
Mia and Trevor traveled a great distance with a large number of students and
stayed in hotels to participate in my multiday seminars.
Trevor and Mia were also
accompanied by a few junior students who’d appeared to have had an excellent
time.
Although Sensei Steve Vosa was extremity busy with personal matters, Sensei Steve Vosa was most hospitable. Hopefully, I will have the opportunity to repeat my visit when Sensei Steve Vosa can extend my stay with more intense workouts.”
On November 14, 2019, Darin Yee (President of the IUKF) performed the 8 Katas of Uechi-Ryu while visiting with The Honolulu Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do Club.
Sensei Albert Cloutier and his dojo wanted to share how grateful they are for Sensei Yee traveling so far to share his experience, knowledge, and insight with them that they created this lovely video.
In the Hawaiian Language, the word “ALOHA” mostly functions as a salutation and a greeting. But the word actually conveys a deeper sense of meaning, which the locals expound upon, by breaking the individual letters down into other Hawaiian terms:
A – Akahai:
Kindness, expressed with tenderness
L – Lokahi:
Unity, expressed with harmony
O – Olu’olu: Agreeable,
expressed with pleasantness
H – Ha’aha’a: Humility,
expressed with modesty
A – Ahonui:
Patience, expressed with perseverance
Aloha is more than just a word of greeting or farewell or a salutation. Aloha means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. Aloha is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. Aloha means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, and to know the unknowable….
On November 9, 2019, Darin Yee-Sensei traveled 5,046 miles from Boston to Hawaii to share his extensive knowledge of Uechi-Ryu, to offer his continued support of our Dojo, and to spend his valuable time with us. From the multiple meetings and training sessions throughout the week, we gained much insight into the Tiger, Dragon, Crane roots of our art. We are so grateful to have been shown a new perspective from which to dissect, analyze, and maximize our effectiveness in Kata performance and applications. I’m particularly impressed with the humble manner in which Darin-Sensei interacted with our group. From the youngest member to the oldest member, he showed patience, kindness, and understanding in freely sharing his knowledge.
Sensei Yee, thank you for your on-going efforts in building a highly supportive International Uechi-ryu Karate Federation, and especially for traveling so far across the globe to help us become better Karateka! Mahalo nui loa for embodying the Spirit of Aloha! We are proud to be an IUKF affiliated Dojo and look forward to your next visit on January 11th and 12th 2020 for our Honolulu Uechi-Ryu Gasshuku Regional Workout.
Sincerely, Albert Cloutier Honolulu Uechi-Ryu Karate-do Club
This October, Richard Bennett and Bennett’s Karate in Erie, CO, hosted Darin Yee to share his Uechi Ryu concepts with various Kung Fu interpretations with students.
Bennett’s Karate is a
member of Master Jim Thompson’s Uechi Ryu
Kokusai organization. Master Jim Thompson has shared his knowledge and skill at
George Mattson’s Summer Fest.
At Bennett’s Karate, seminar attendees participated in drills and discussions from Sensei Darin Yee. Darin Yee would like to thank Richard Bennett and Bennett’s Karate students for their gracious hospitality and the opportunity to share these concepts.
Sensei Darin Yee wanted to share his experience with you. Here is what he said,
On
October 18 to the 20th, Sensei Darin Yee, president of the IUKF, along with
Sensei Dan Maestas, a senior advisory board member, was in Denver, Colorado,
visiting Sensei Allen Bennett, Sensei Richard Bennett, their families, and
students. The Bennett family are all
respected and well train masters in the art of Uechi-Ryu. They also
operate several very successful dojos in their area.
I was
honored for their invitation for me to visit and share some of my ideas and
demonstrate the individualism I’ve acquired from my 50 years studying Uechi-Ryu
influenced by my 60 years of Chinese Kung-Fu. To list full disclosure,
I’ve also learned much from conversations and interactions with Allen Sensei
and his incredibly energetic son Richard Sensei. With the eagerness for knowledge and
tradition which radiates from Sensei Richard Allen, he will indeed be one of
the most honored American Senseis following in the footsteps of father, Sensei
Allen Bennett. He is on the path to greatness is respect, honesty, integrity, loyalty,
and humility.
