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The owner and director of Five Birds Industries, has been a martial arts student for almost 50 years. He has also been a teacher of English Composition,Film as Literature, Creative Writing, Scriptwriting and Martial Arts for 2/3 of that time. Like any good journalist, he never made himself the story. On June 19th, 2010, Gordon was inducted into the Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame. The next year he published his first novel, SHIDOSHI:The Four Ways of the Corpse and was then inducted into the U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Fame and the Legends Hall of Fame, both with Book of the Year awards. Barbara Rich, his wife and Gordon have been working and writing together for 10 years. She is the author of The Gradual Diet and is known as Ageless1der to family and friends. She is also one of 15 contributors to The Five Principles of Everything.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Tensho kata



Here is an example of a Five Birds Martial Arts training device, the Goju Kata Maps. The maps are utilized for students who "have already begun learning a kata." They are intended to help a student "remember what the teacher said." Each kata begins from a point of easy access, a visual concept that is "pictured" as the track of the movements. When a student sees that the katas are trying to teach concepts, in relation to one another (and not stagnant and separate movements or ideas) then they are on their way to true learning.

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