THE COACH-TRAINERS

 

 

 

 

LIVIO   LIVERANI

 

Been born in Caracas (Venezuela) the Nov. 17-1949, in the year 1965, still young one, he has begun the practical one of the martial arts (judo, aikido, body-guard) during the years passed between first and second of  Military Navy NATO’ special groups in the United States. As civilian it practiced karate to the Shotokan catching up the black belt first Dan S.K.I. with diploma underwrite in the 1984 from master-sensei Kanawaza. In the 1993 he has obtained the first Dan Kyudokan from Sensei Oscar Higa. In the 1994 he was promoted second Dan with certificate of Sensei Yuchoku Higa-Okinawa. As from march 8, 2008, as a result of regular examinations, he was promoted  5th Dan/Godan, with certificate underwrite from sensei Minoru Higa-Okinawa, the present world-wide President. From February 1999, official representative of the school Ryukyu Kobudo RyuKonKai for the Piedmont Region, is moreover in the Teaching Staff let alone.

In August 2009 –during the “OKINAWA TRADITIONAL KARATEDO WORLD TOURNAMENT”- he has obtained from the sensei Kotaro Iha/10th Dan Kobudo diplomas of SanDan and Coach/Federal Trainer of the RyuKyuKobudo RyuKonKai Okinawa.

 

 

NOTES: Showing himself to be dogget like a traveller and adventurer, during the year 1998 it was been officially honoured with a “VETERAN TRAVELLER DIPLOMA” from the Italian Adventures Associations Company of Rome, Society for which he works, in order to have contributed with its great number of travels in his guide’s capacity to the alternative progress to discover the world also in lonely spots zones not only urged from an endless desire of  knowledge, but above all bringing  aids (clothes, medicinal, comforts, etc.) to villages and populations of the third way. He says: “...This is also Martial Art...”

 

 

Livio Liverani

 
 

 

 

 

MAURIZIO   CANEPARO

 

Been born in Torino the Sept. 5-1957, he has begun the practical one of the karate to coming of age of 16 years old near the Dojo of master Sugiyama-Sensei. After a short period of pause for job reasons, he has resumed the practical one of the karate attending the best dojos than Turin in Shotokan within. It was the promoter of the Kyudokan school in the Piedmont Region; indeed he has been the first piedmont student who trained itself privately with the Sensei Higa. From that moment it was definitively renounced to the Shotokan black belt, in order to begin the adventure with the  karate ones of Okinawa. As from march 8, 2008, as a result of regular examinations, he was promoted  5th Dan/Godan, with certificate underwrite from sensei Minoru Higa-Okinawa, the present world-wide President. He holds the offices of Society and Coordinator’s Technical Manager; morover from February 1999 is Teaching let alone official rapresentative of the RyuKyu Kobudo RyuKonKai’s school for the Piedmont Region.

Maurizio Caneparo

 

 

RELATIONSHIP BY LIVIO LIVERANI

(TECHNICAL MANAGER OF THE PIEDMONT DISTRICT AREA)

 

 

 

 

I address to all those who, also loving the martial art in every direction, feel that something lacks it.  They even perceive that a shape of technical improvement exists that does not succeed to catch up; or one dissatisfaction deriving from a productive relationship with the own trainer; or, more simply, they do not feel until in bottom what they make.

 

In the West country it’s given too much weight to the combat and little to the true essence of technical and spiritual preparation of the students. In Okinawa instead, they leave you for a half-hour in a position and, when tasks of to have caught up perfect the physical and spiritual formulation, they come to...to rectify the inch position to you or makes you to observe that in that moment you do not have the right prepared mind!...

 

In short, I would assert that the purpose can also be caught up to gain a combat to high level, but at first to the condition for having caught up the unison with same himself. That means to pursuit, first of all, the himself harmony, with faithfulness, a great self-sacrifice, with the virtue of humility, loving same himself and the neighbour one: this is the way of the MUGEN, i.e. the oneself awareness, that it is without limit and never finish up.

 

 

The founder of “SHORIN-RYU KYUDOKAN” Great Master Sensei “Yuchoku Higa – 10th  Dan”, has carried to fulfilment its work of art under the influence of masters Shiroma, Miyahira, Akamine, Kokuba and Chibana, great experts of Shuri-Te, typical and characteristic martial art of the Okinawan Island before that the modern Karate or Shotokan was asserted.

 

On the technical profile, the KYUDOKAN characterizes for its speed and power. The base postures are short, powerful and compact. The bodily movements are small and fast. The elbows remain always very neighbors to the body. Essential it is the ceaseless working of the hips, from the which it start every other movement of the body. The natural circular torsion of them (incomprehensible to the less initiates person) and the created circle both psychologically and physically by all the movements can let to aim and carry up the energy in flowing and combined way.

 

If we want to search a comparison with the modern Karate, than in Europe it is most “commercially” diffused, this has, respectively to the Shorinryu Kyudokan, the position basis more lengthened and inactive, therefore also more spectacular from “an artistic” point of view.  Its movements are ample and bombastic, the natural torsion of the hips is scarcely hinted. All that determines one sure smaller speed of execution of the techniques. They are easier to learn, but less strong, less deepened; the just psychical and physical harmony and the Zen philosophy lacks, philosophy that still today establish the good character, humble, but resolute at the same time, of the Ryu Kyu Japanese people.

Besides, I had realize that in Europe, and above all here in Italy, the modern Karate more and more stretches to transform in one pure and simple sport. This is the more serious fact because disparage it and renders it meaningless.

 

The Karate, since the most ancient times, always has been an art, i.e. a formal training that needs technical ability matching with creative instinct, passion, unselfish love. In the context, the Katas, which contain and recapitulate the sweeping Zen experience of many generations of wise masters-sensei, are the more important component, because they are the instruments with which a continuous technical improvement is caught up. And the technical improvement is also in the basis of the inner improvement, spiritual, that it is and it must be the supreme aim of the Karate.

 

The athleticism and the competitions do not have to be refused on purpose, but only by the way, limited one in the time, during the life of the martial art ‘s practising. Their value must be meant in relative sense. They can be of the useful experiences in order better to know same himself and to put themselves to the test, but they cannot more be nothing. 

 

It does not have to make Karate, it must “be one and the same with Karate”.

 

 

Liverani – Higa– Caneparo: Sai Technique Hombu Dojo Palermo