Monday, October 25, 2010
sensei Eichii miyazato na Sensei Nantambu Camara Bomani
Tanzania lauches Goju- ryu Karate Association
| Tanzania lauches Goju- ryu Karate Association | Send to a friend |
| Tuesday, 26 January 2010 08:52 |
| By Fadhil Iddy The introduction of Martial arts are now set for an increase in the country as a new national sports association, dubbed Tanzania Goju-ryu Karate Association is set for it’s registration. The registration of the martial art sport would be added to the list of among other martial art’s sporting events, karate, which has seen Tanzania competing in several international events, including Saba Saba International annual tourney. The event, which is being organised by the Tanzania Shotokan Karate Association (TASHOKA) has severally seen the coming of karatekas from various countries like Kenya and Uganda. Apart from karate, whose association is known as the Tanzania Karate Association, include Taekwondo and kick-boxing. Sensei Rashid Almas, who is one of the Go-Juryu founding members said yesterday that they are now in the process of registering the sport with the National Sports Council NSC). “This kind of sport would help Tanzanians for their self defence as well as preventing them from diseases”, said Almas. He said apart from playing for leisure, and preventing from diseases, the sport also helps a person to become physically and mentally fit. He said that they have managed to open branches in several Mainland and Zanzibar regions, waiting for the registration. The branches include Mwqanza, Morogoro, Dodoma, Manyara, Arusha, Tabora, Shinyanga, Kilimanjaro, Mtwara and Lindi. Other branches are those of Pemba, Unguja and Dar es Salaam. |
SENSEI BOMANI: Pioneer of martial arts in Tanzania
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| Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:22 |
Picture this. It is 1973. The world is buzzing; not from volcanoes or earthquakes. We are 37 years behind issues of environment. Terrorism is around yes, but it is not September 11 nor al Queda bombs on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, either. In 1973 planes are being hijacked and a year earlier Israeli athletes were executed during Munich Olympics. CIA helped topple and kill President elect Salvador Allende in Chile. The era of Nixon Watergate in the US, Vietnamese war and Black Panthers hunted; some exiled to Africa and Tanzania. Times of high moral ground, when Dr Walter Rodney’s classical book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is released with a prologue by Tanzanian Minister of Economy, Abdulrahman Babu. Yet Babu is soon detained because Zanzibar leader Mr Abeid Karume has just been assassinated. Yes, it is 1973 with riots and strikes in factories and secondary schools across Tanzania. Students and workers demand better leadership. So much is happening. In this tumultuous mood, liberation movements in Mozambique, Angola, South Rhodesia, Namibia, South Africa, and Cape Verde challenge colonialism. A sad casualty in 1973 is Amilcar Cabral brilliant leader of the Guinea Bissau campaign. So much happening. July 1973, Chinese actor and martial artist, Bruce Lee, dies suddenly in Hongkong. The news shock the world since he is only 32 years old. As Bruce Lee passes away, Enter the Dragon, is released. It is historical. Enter the Dragon reaches Tanzania and is a huge event. I am one of many youths mesmerised after watching it at the Empire Cinema; a few seconds from the Askari Monument centre of Dar es Salaam. Having seen Enter the Dragon me and my friends start training martial arts. Bruce Lee and Kung fu becomes hero and fashion; a song by a Jamaican singer, Carl Douglas can be heard everywhere. “Everybody Kung fu fighting. Ha!” Around this time a young African American called Nantambu Camara Bomani sets up the first martial arts school in Tanzania. Sensei (teacher)Bomani becomes our new role model. He teaches us that Bruce Lee is a fantasy; that to become a great fighter like that means more than screaming and high kicks. You need discipline to train, understand yourself and eat well. Respect other people; leave the seat for older people in buses and public places, but most of all love your society. “Yes, Sensei Bomani was like that,” recalls Charles Da Costa who as a teenager studied under Bomani in New York back in 1977. Nowadays Da Costa, runs his own Kungfu academy in Denmark. Like everyone else he was heavily influenced by teachings of Sensei Bomani who died aged 63, August last year in Ghana. Back in 1974 when I began training with Bomani we would talk a lot. He would express his love for Africa and say how life in America was so superficial. He quickly learnt Kiswahili and married Fathia, a Kariakoo lady. Fellow American, Floyd Webb, wrote in his blog recently: “He walked among the common people of Tanzania with respect and love, having married a Tanzanian woman and living in the community instead of the usual expatriate abodes, separate and apart from the real community.” Last Monday the school Sensei Bomani established at Zanaki in Dar Es Salaam celebrated thirty seven years. During his time Bomani had only a few high ranking students. Today there are at least fifty black belt (the advanced rank in Karate) graduates plus schools (dojos) in Mwanza, Arusha, Moshi and Mbeya. According to Sensei Malekia who leads the dojos, approximately 8,000 Tanzanians have graduated from Goju Ryu Karate since Bomani’s days. Karate, which means empty hands (i.e. defending yourself without relying on weapons) in Japanese, keeps you fit and healthy. For younger people it is especially beneficial for developing a strong mental attitude. Sensei Malekia says because of the prevalence of drugs and vagrancy amongst Tanzanian youth, they have set up daily classes at an affordable fee programmed in three categories, i.e. children, youth and adults. “Children who cannot afford are given a free start, “ he says. Bomani’s legacy is not only stamped in Tanzania. He also taught fighters of Nelson Mandela’s ANC and helped establish various schools in the USA. For more info contact Sensei Malekia 0784 775454. Email: kilimanjaro1967@hotmail.com Blog: www.freddymacha.blogspot.com |
Sensei NANTAMBU KAMARA BOMANI
Sensei Bomani alianza mafunzo yake ya karate miaka ya 60.Mpaka mwaka 1968 Bomani alikuwa ameshakwenda Okinawa Japan kujifunza na kufundishwa na Seinsei Eichii Myazato,Sensei Bomani alikuwa mwanafunzi wa Sensei Eichii Miyazato mpaka miyazato alipofariki mwaka 1999.
Miaka ya mwanzoni ya 1970 Sensei Bomani alifungua dojo yake ya mwanzo Ithica,New York.Bomani pia ndio aliyeleta Jundokan tanzania na Africa kwa ujumla.Alianzisha na kufungua shule ya kwanza ya gojuryu jundokan dar es salaama mwaka 1973 na kuanziasha Tanzania Okinawa Gojuryu Karate association.Sensei Bomani pia alikuwa MUHIMILI mkubwa wa kueneza jundo kan gojuryu marekani.Alianzisha dojo nyingi katika majiji ya New York,Washington,Kentucky na Ohio.Ameacha wanafunzi waandamizi YUDANSHA/SENPAIS,mimi nikiwa mmojawapo katika africa na marekani.Alianzisha pia Okinawa Gojuryu Karate-do Kyokai Jundokan USA na kutumika kama rais wa kwanza wa chama hicho pia alianzisha West Africa Okinawa Gojuryu Karate-do Kyokai.Dojo zake nyingi bado ziko na zinaendelea kusambaza filosofia ya traditonal okinawa gojuryu.
Sensei Bomani aliendelea kushirikiana na Dojo zake nyingi alizozianzisha africa na marekani pia kusafiri kwenda okinawa kwa mafunzo zaidi.Madaraja yote ya vyeo vyake katika rank za gojuryu dan nane 8th dan
alipewa na sensei Eichii Miyazato,Kati ya wanafunzi wake wakuu waandamizi wa tanzania ni,Daudi Magoma,Mabruki,Geoffrey Shoo,Brighton Manyau,Pascal Irungu,Heri Kivuli,Marehemu Bofu kwambwa,Geoffrey Mbezi,Alfred Malekia na wengine weeeeeeengi amabo mpaka leo kwa namna moja au nyingine wanaendelea kuisamba za Gojuryu Tanzania.
Mwezi August 2009 Seinsei Bomani alifariki kwa ugonjwa wa moyo,alizikwa katika jiji la Accra Ghana Africa ya magharibi.Sensei Bomani alikuwa muhimili mkubwa na muasisi wa Gojuryu africa na Marekani NA aliktunukiwa dani ya 9 9th dan,kwa juhudi zake binafsi na mapenzi ya gojuryu alisambaza karate katilka mabara haya mawili ya Africa na Maekani.Kwangu alikuwa mwalimu Mkuu,Rafiki,Role model and ispiration,.BWANA AMETOA NA BWANA AMETWAA JINA LA BWANA LIHIMIDIWE.
Grandmaster Chojun Miyagi
Grandmaster Chojun Miyagi was born on April 25, 1888. He began training in karate under Kanryo Higaonna at the age of 14, in 1902. Like his teacher before him, because of his great natural talent and fierce determination, he progressed very rapidly. The training was severe beyond belief at times but he practiced ever harder with an enthusiasm unmatched by any of the other students. Chojun Miyagi became "uchi deshi" (private disciple) of Kanryo Higaonna. He studied with his teacher for 14 years before his teachers death in 1915.
Chojun Miyagi, as successor to Naha-te pushed himself to the limits of endurance in his desire to emulate the extraordinary skills of his teacher. To this end, that same year (1915) he journeyed to Fuzhou, China the city where his teacher had studied the martial arts, to further his research. This was one of three trips he made to China during his lifetime.
On his return to Okinawa he began to teach martial arts at his home in Naha. Later, he also taught the Okinawan Prefecture Police Training Center, the Okinawan Master's Training College and at the Naha Commercial High School (where his teacher once taught.)
Chojun Miyagi worked hard to spread karate throughout Okinawa and mainland Japan, and to earn Naha-te a status equal to that of the highly respected Japanese martial arts of judo and kendo. To achieve this he traveled frequently to mainland Japan where he was invited to teach karate at Kyoto University, Kansai University and Ritsumei Kan University. In 1933 karate was registered at the Butokukai, the center for all martial arts in Japan. This was a milestone for karate as it meant that it was recognized on a level with the highly respected martial arts of Japan.
Chojun Miyagi dedicated his whole life to karate. He was responsible for structuring Naha-te (which he later named "Goju-Ryu") into a systemized discipline which could be taught to society in general. This teaching system which he formulated enabled karate to be taught in schools for the benefit of the young, and to reach vast numbers of people throughout the world. However, his private teaching at his home remained strictly in adherence to the principles and traditions of his teacher, Kanryo Higaonna, and his teacher before him, Ryu Ryu Ko.
The naming of Goju-Ryu came about more by accident than design. In 1930, Chojun Miyagi's top student, Jin'an Shinzato, while in Tokyo was asked by numerous martial arts masters as to what school of martial arts he practiced. As Naha-te te had no formal name he could not answer this question. On his return to Okinawa he reported this incident to Chojun Miyagi. After much consideration Chojun Miyagi decided on the name Goju-Ryu (hard & soft school) as a name for his style. This name he took from a line in the Bubishi ( a classical Chinese text on martial arts and other subjects). This line which appears in a poem describing the eight precepts of the martial arts, reads, "Ho Goju Donto" (the way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness).
Grandmaster Chojun Miyagi
Grandmaster Chojun Miyagi was born on April 25, 1888. He began training in karate under Kanryo Higaonna at the age of 14, in 1902. Like his teacher before him, because of his great natural talent and fierce determination, he progressed very rapidly. The training was severe beyond belief at times but he practiced ever harder with an enthusiasm unmatched by any of the other students. Chojun Miyagi became "uchi deshi" (private disciple) of Kanryo Higaonna. He studied with his teacher for 14 years before his teachers death in 1915.
Chojun Miyagi, as successor to Naha-te pushed himself to the limits of endurance in his desire to emulate the extraordinary skills of his teacher. To this end, that same year (1915) he journeyed to Fuzhou, China the city where his teacher had studied the martial arts, to further his research. This was one of three trips he made to China during his lifetime.
On his return to Okinawa he began to teach martial arts at his home in Naha. Later, he also taught the Okinawan Prefecture Police Training Center, the Okinawan Master's Training College and at the Naha Commercial High School (where his teacher once taught.)
Chojun Miyagi worked hard to spread karate throughout Okinawa and mainland Japan, and to earn Naha-te a status equal to that of the highly respected Japanese martial arts of judo and kendo. To achieve this he traveled frequently to mainland Japan where he was invited to teach karate at Kyoto University, Kansai University and Ritsumei Kan University. In 1933 karate was registered at the Butokukai, the center for all martial arts in Japan. This was a milestone for karate as it meant that it was recognized on a level with the highly respected martial arts of Japan.
Chojun Miyagi dedicated his whole life to karate. He was responsible for structuring Naha-te (which he later named "Goju-Ryu") into a systemized discipline which could be taught to society in general. This teaching system which he formulated enabled karate to be taught in schools for the benefit of the young, and to reach vast numbers of people throughout the world. However, his private teaching at his home remained strictly in adherence to the principles and traditions of his teacher, Kanryo Higaonna, and his teacher before him, Ryu Ryu Ko.
The naming of Goju-Ryu came about more by accident than design. In 1930, Chojun Miyagi's top student, Jin'an Shinzato, while in Tokyo was asked by numerous martial arts masters as to what school of martial arts he practiced. As Naha-te te had no formal name he could not answer this question. On his return to Okinawa he reported this incident to Chojun Miyagi. After much consideration Chojun Miyagi decided on the name Goju-Ryu (hard & soft school) as a name for his style. This name he took from a line in the Bubishi ( a classical Chinese text on martial arts and other subjects). This line which appears in a poem describing the eight precepts of the martial arts, reads, "Ho Goju Donto" (the way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness).
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