Holidays! No interview this time. I joined the 5th Shinkyokushin summercamp. Here is an short impression of the camp! Just enjoy and be shure to be there as well next year!!! It was great fun...

In Belgium the North Sea Camp 2008 took place. A Shinkyokushin karatecamp in Oostende. The trainings are usual on the beach which gives a karateka a nice feeling with the elements during hard trainings. I like this camp very much; the organisation is very good, accommodation is perfect, food is nice, trainings have a lot of variety and there is always an interesting instructorline-up. This year they managed to have the worldchampion as one of our instructors. Time for an interview mixed with some footage of the camp!

Once every 4 years the world championship karate takes place in Tokyo, Japan. Mathias Kelderman is a participant from Holland. What about his preparation for this tournament? On a early sundaymorning we joined one of his trainings and asked him all about it. Our co-presentator Ted had the function of moving punching bag which he liked a lot.

This week I had to go to London for work (no punishment at all!) Due to this situation I wasn't able to train in my own dojo. I thought it would be nice to search a dojo in London. Surprisingly I found the dojo from Shihan Nick da Costa! I sent him an email and got a nice response; You are welcom to join our training. Why not use my camera for an interview as well?

I thought it was time to interview my own sensei this time. The one who inspires me to go for it. When did he start with karate? This Issue is a short impression of a training. So if you feel attracted and would like to join us, send us an email, drop by and train with us. (more info can be found on www.kobushi.nl). Click push-up to go to the video-page.

Koen Scharrenberg did a demonstration by breaking boards and a baseball bat. Before he started we asked him how to do that! This demo was recorded during the dutch championships for youth and beginners, organised by dojo Renshu, part of the NSKO. Click on the picture to go to video page.

Finally we finished our vodcast with Jon Bluming. This was not an easy one! Our interview was 37 minutes long and we made it a little shorter; 10 minutes long. Still a big file. As you may have noticed, our Window Media Files could not be downloaded for 2 days. Sorry for that! The problem was at orbitfiles.com. They could not handle the traffic (!) so they are making new scripts and placing all files on faster servers.. I expect our windowsmovies will be available soon... For all of you who have Quicktime installed; make yourself comfortable, have some japanese tea and enjoy this show.

I made windows media files from our favorites vodcasts at your request. Scroll down to see some. The vodcast with Jon Bluming is almost finished. It is our longest vodcast ever; 10 minutes!

Yesterday iFight had a little talk with Andre Visch, a great fighter from the eighties. He knocked out 5 japanese fighters in a row during the 7th world open karate tournament iko2 . Japan was very impressed by his fighting skills. Right now he is still into budo but on a different way we might say. At the end of oktober we will make a vodcast about him. Until that time you can take a look at his website.

Today I visited Jon Bluming. This 73 year old legend had a lot to tell. During this pleasant conversation he also showed me interesting attributes of Japan. Due to vacation and 3 other running vodcasts (!) it will take a while before we broadcast this interesting interview...

I did not go to this seminar but my sempai from Amsterdam Dojo did! He wrote a few but very clear lines to me. Check out this info at the "Stars" chapter!