TAI KI KEN - 'Great Ki Boxing' - Tai Ki Ken Honbu Amsterdam 太気至誠拳法: 16-05-2010

Characteristics:

Tai Ki Kenpo
Tai Ki ken or Great Ki Boxing is a universal oriental 'fighting art', devellopped by headmaster Sawai Kenichi. Because of it's Chinese wushu (Yi-Chuan) and Japanese budo-background it forms an unique blend of nei-chia (internal) and wai-chia (external) -Budo.

TaiKi stimulates our personal and universal 'yuan-chi'...which can only be experienced and devellopped by personal ki-training.

Under guidance of a good teacher one can learn how to move, feel, think and act spontaneously and freely....in order to stay healthy, move like a master and defend yourself adequately.

Let us first make clear our aims where we go for in TaiKi:

We want students -under good guidance- to learn how to develop and use their yuan-chi, in order to master it and:
o through TaiKiKen Ki-training we want to achieve and sustain a good mental and physical health and fitness ( Chi kung /Yang Sheng kong)

o to learn the correct use and control of our ‘yuan-chi'

in every day life as well in the fighting arts

o to move finally without hindrances and spontaneously in the Tai-Ki way of moving (mastermoving)

o to be able to act, move, feel and think free without

hindrances and to be able to express our intentions optimally (Yi-training) and to be fully ourself
o Tai-Ki-Kenpo wants to be a means towards personal growth and personality education
o to be able to defend oneself adequately and be able to fight efficiently (budo and wushu aspects)
o with Tai Ki we want to deepen the insight in the own martial culture especially and deepen the insight in and make transfer to other (martial) cultures in general.

As given to me by master Sawai Kenichi as his direct student since 1967 and appointed Kyoshi Master-Teacher and TaiKiKen Hanshi.

Intn.FEKAM KarateTeachers Seminar France 24-25 march 2012

Daan Dirkson: When it was not expected at all, our dear Kyosi got surprised by sensei Gruss' initiative to honor him. We just saw 20+ karateka's got their certificate for 2th dan and up to even 8th dan, when monsieur Gilbert et le president de Fédération Européenne de Karaté Do et d'Arts Martiaux Traditionnels invited our unsuspecting teacher to grant him with a ninth dan certificate. They saved the very best for last! Congratulations Sensei Kallenbach! Sensei Gruss and Sensei Kallenbach are old opponents but became good friends and stayed in contact all those years. Both with great Budo heart and mind have made a indelible contribution to the world of Martial Arts, hence the award to our Sensei during this special event. Over 230 karate teachers and assistant teachers joined together in Amberieu en Bugey near Lyon to train with Sensei's Gruss, Bigot and Kallenbach. Different lectures were given to inspire the mainly black belt Karateka's from 8 different country's (France, Netherlands, Morocco, Belgium, Germany, Swiss, Algeria and Canada), varied by a live Budo-paint session and a Japanese drum show. The contribution of our Tai Ki ryū was very well received and created new possibilities for many of the participants in the way they look at movement in general and move in their Martial Art in specific as they told us in their feedback afterwards. This was also due to their own openness and great effort they put in to this weekend. Combined with very nice weather and a great organization this Seminaire des Professeurs d'Arts Martieux was a great success and a honor for me to be a part of. Thank you Jan. I will post some pictures for illustration. Onegai Shimasu, — with Jan Kallenbach.

19-05-2010

Tai Ki defense vs bo-ken attack

Photo shows the TaiKi quality of mu-kae-te...'the receiving hand' which deals with the controll of the attacker by absorbing his energy.

One of the 5 core qualities of Tai Ki budo...and a difficult one, as most
fighters like 'giving' better than 'receiving'...Our curriculum starts with
this quality before we practise the other.

17-05-2010

A succesfull visit in Paris and Amsterdam by TaiKi Kyoshi McDonagh Sweden

After a good gashuku in ACBB dojo in Paris, shihan McDonagh Tai Ki Kyoshi from Gothenburg Sweden, was one week with us in Shin-ShinBuKen. He taught in honbu dojo at wednesday evening 2th of june...and at saturday the 5th and taught succesfully.

After my trip to Japan, we were preparing for the 5th nternational TaiKi Gashuku at Gothenburg Sweden the end of August.It became a special gasshuku again...because of the good students, the teaching and the energetic surroundings and climate. Sensei McDonagh had arranged some exiciting encounters for everybody and all learned and did enjoy them. Follow the news, see the pictures.

the international TaiKi members with hanjo

with sensei McDonagh

the special Swedish TaiKi atmosphere

a special tui-shou and sensei Jacques Legree from Paris is teaching

TaiKi Kenpō Roots - 太気至誠拳法

When headmaster Sawai Kenichi, after staying in China training with Wang sensei returned to Japan, he would -with full persmission of Wang Chang Zhai (China's National Hand)- start teaching Ta Cheng Chuan = honorific name for Yi-Chuan at that time. Translated directly in Japanese = Tai Sei Ken.
Gradually sensei changed Sei in Ki and added Shi-sei and it became written as: Tai Ki Shi-Sei Kenpo, as still written now on our Menkyo licenses.

In daily speaking this became Tai Ki Kenpo, with this notion that sensei had changed the original Sei-character (Cheng)
into 'Ki', as he found this character more urgent and expressing the real essention of his budo.

Later on Tai Ki Ken came into use and even 'Tai Ki'. People sometimes, out of convenience, do write the three characters close together. Actually they do form three independent characters. Afterall sensei did not bother too much, as he found Tai Ki Ken perfectly expressing he and his budo stood for: 'Great Ki Boxing' .

TAI KI KEN - 'Great Ki Boxing' - Tai Ki Ken Honbu Amsterdam 太気至誠拳法

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