Mill Bay Traditional Martial Arts
2746 Barry Rd. Mill Bay BC V0R 2P2 Cobble Hill, BC, Canada

My apologies to anyone who is trying to reach out to me though the Facebook page. I am still having technical issues with this Facebook account. Please use email or call me directly at the following: [email protected] or 250-889-2246

Happy New year all. I am have technical issues with this Facebook account. Please use email or call me directly at the following: [email protected] or 250-889-2246

Today would haave been O'Sensei Richard Kim's Birthday (17.11.1917; 8.11.2001) He was Grandmaster, Hanshi, 10. Dan. He founded the Martial Arts Style of Shorinji ryu (Karate, Kobudo, Tai Chi).

We are closed Monday for the Thanksgiving long weekend. Wishing you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. I look forward to seeing you all On Wednesday.

Don’t forget that the Mill Bay Dojo will be closed this Labour Day long weekend. See everyone back at the Dojo on Wednesday. Have a great last long weekend of the summer. Sensei Pat

Dont forget that the Mill Bay Dojo will be closed this Labour Day long weekend. See everyone back at the Dojo on Wednesday. Have a great last long weekend of the summer. Sensei Pat

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First Seminar with Sensei Mortley of 2020. Everything from the Tai Chi form and Martial applications, to empty hand Karate Kata and special Kobudo Bo form. All and all a excellent day of learning.

Reminder of this weekends Seminar With Sensei Mortley. If you have not confirmed your intention of attending please do so now.

The Mill Bay Traditional Martial Arts Dojo Will be closed Today Jan 15th, Due to Snow. Your Martial Art is every where you are. Practice your Kata / Form, and your Kicks!

Gratitude. One most important words for health and happiness in life is gratitude. O'Sensei Richard Kim spoke about gratitude and said that the first thing to be grateful for is your family. Without them you could not exist. Then be grateful for your friends and fellow humans who create and maintain the world we live in. This includes teachers, lovers, guides, and even adversaries. Then be grateful to your world. The planet that sustains our lives and provides us with whateve...r we need to live. Then be grateful for your personal belief system. Sensei Kim said that your belief system is your true partner throughout life. And finally be grateful to yourself. Without you there is no universe to experience and you are a integral part of it. Today I am grateful for all of you and for being able to live a life with the meaning and purpose that these arts provide. Thank you all

Looking forward to seeing everyone for the start of the 2020 year at the Dojo. Monday January 6th

A Joyous Holiday and a Merry Christmas to all the students and families of the Mill Bay Traditional Martial Arts. I wish you all a very healthy 2020. Sensei

The final seminar and Karate grading of the year with Sensei Mortley. A fantastic day of training. What a great way to finish off the 2019 sessions. Hope to see you all in the New Year

Congratulations to those who received there new Kyu ranks and belts. Keep up the great effort. Sensei

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A fantastic seminar today with Sensei Mortley at the Mill Bay Dojo. We covered Bagua Stepping, Karate Bunkai applications, Knife defence techniques, and the Kobudo Kata, Nabori Ryu No Jo Dai. A truly great day of training.

Gratitude. One most important words for health and happiness in life is gratitude. OSensei Richard Kim spoke about gratitude and said that the first thing to be grateful for is your family. Without them you could not exist. Then be grateful for your friends and fellow humans who create and maintain the world we live in. This includes teachers, lovers, guides, and even adversaries. Then be grateful to your world. The planet that sustains our lives and provides us with whateve...r we need to live. Then be grateful for your personal belief system. Sensei Kim said that your belief system is your true partner throughout life. And finally be grateful to yourself. Without you there is no universe to experience and you are a integral part of it. Today I am grateful for all of you and for being able to live a life with the meaning and purpose that these arts provide. Thank you all

Another fantastic seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei at the beautiful Kodai Shorinji Ryu Hombu Dojo located near Crofton on Vancouver Island. Today we covered the 2 Person Tai Chi Form, numerous knife defence techniques, and the old traditional Kata Wan-Do.

Happy Birthday Sensei Mortley Wishing you the best today and everyday!

I am back in the Dojo tonight! See ya there.

Good Day everyone. I will be away from the Dojo for a few days this week .The Dojo is open, Senpi Roy will be running things in my absence. Train Hard everyone!

It was a fantastic seminar with Sensei Douglas Mortley today. We covered the Tai Chi Form with many incredible applications, numerous Jujutsu counters and counters of counters, and Sensei taught the Kata Masa Higa No Tonfa Sho . An absolutely great day of training.

Egotism The Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty was a national hero for his success as both a statesman and military leader. But despite his fame, power, and wealth, he considered himself a humble and devout Buddhist. Often he visited his favorite Zen master to study under him, and they seemed to get along very well. The fact that he was prime minister apparently had no effect on their relationship, which seemed to be simply one of a revered master and respectful student. One ...day, during his usual visit, the Prime Minister asked the master, "Your Reverence, what is egotism according to Buddhism?" The masters face turned red, and in a very condescending and insulting tone of voice, he shot back: "What kind of stupid question is that!?" This unexpected response so shocked the Prime Minister that he became sullen and angry. The Zen master then smiled and said, "THIS, Your Excellency, is egotism." See more

Another fantastic seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei at the Kodai Shorinji Ryu Hombu Dojo on Vancouver Island. Today we covered both the 1 and 2 person Tai Chi Form, numerous Karate Bunkai, Jujutsu applications, and the traditional Kata, Jitte, Naihanchi Sandan, and Nabori Ryu No Jo Dai. #karate #kobudo #taichichuan

Another fantastic seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei and head of the Kodai Shorinji Ryu Association. Today we covered the 2 Person Tai Chi Form, knife self defence, and the old traditional Kata Annan. #karate #kata #taichichuan

April 2019 seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei was fantastic. Thank you to all who attended. #dedication #courtesy

Happy Birthday to Karate pioneer and Goju-Ryu founder Miyagi Chjun Sensei, born April 25, 1888.

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The March 2019 seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei was another fantastic success. We covered the Kata from the Patsai series, Knife defense techniques, and much more. Thank you to all who attended #karate #kobudo #taichi #jujutsu

The February 2019 seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei was a fantastic success. We covered the Kata Gojushiho Dai, the 2 Person Tai Chi Form, and the Kobudo Kata Chatan Yara No Kon Dai, and much more. #karate #kobudo #taichi #jujutsu

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NOTICE: the next seminar with Douglas Mortley Sensei will be Sunday February 24th. Starting 12:00pm (noon) at the Duncan/North Cowichan Honbu Dojo. There will be a breakfast before hand at the York St. Diner 10:30 am. Please let me or Lucas Sensei know if you are interested in attending.

The first seminar of the year with the Kodai Shorinji Ryu Association. As always it was a fantastic event.

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Thanks to Craig Westland for finding this. TAI CHI It was in the early 1970s , perhaps early 1973 that OSensei began to teach his students at the Chinese YMCA, San Francisco, a Yang style tai chi form and a version of pushing hands, both single and double pushing hands. For many of his regular students tai chi was not considered of much value. Most did not continue training in Tai Chi after either leaving OSensei or after OSenseis death in 2001. OSensei was attempting t...o have us move with the breath both in Kihon Waza and Kata practice. To move slowly, As if the room was filled with peanut butter up to your neck. He would extoll us to feel the movement, with your whole body and mind. Apparently many of us were not getting the lesson, as shortly after berating the class a number of times for reminding him of the Baboons of Gandi he stopped teaching Karate and Kabudo in his regular classs and started teaching us tai chi, pau-qua and ching-ying. This continued for a number of months till OSensei would once again go back to teaching karate to us, but the tai chi practice never stopped and from that time forward till his death tai chi was an integral part of our martial arts training. And OSensei would go back to Pau-Qua and Ching-Ying drills on a regular basis. The tai chi form was a Yang long form. One hundred and eight movements. OSensei told us he had learned this form in China from a teacher named Chin. So we called it ChinsYang Tai Chi. OSensei told us that Chin was a practitioner of Pau-Qua and Ching-ying prior to learning Yang Tai Chi. The form we learned has this influence in such movements as fair lady plays the shuttle (Pau-Qua) and parting the wild horses maine (Ching-ying). Transition movements had a lot of Pau-Kua footwork. Movements were diagonal in feeling as in Ching-ying. In addition OSensei would include standing meditation in the Yi-quan tradition as taught by Wang-Zing-Xai. From then on Osensei would teach tai chi regularly but separately from his normal class vitiate of karate, kabudo, aki-jitsu and judo and some boxing as well. The standing meditation was incorporated as part of all the disciplines he would drill us in. After many decades of practicing this routine, I have found that I no longer feel any difference when I practice tai chi or karate or kobudo. Louise Jemison Student of Sensei Kim

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