With a fighting shout accompanied with Music, Bunshiro Nagamine leads “Radio Karate” at Yaesekotoshien School

With a fighting shout accompanied with Music, Bunshiro Nagamine leads “Radio Karate” at Yaesekotoshien School

Bunshiro Nagamine (front) leading the Yaesekotoshien students in Radio Karate. November 4, Yaesekotoshien School in Yaese


November 13 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo

Yaese – Yaesekotoshien School spent their physical education class on November 4 learning “Radio Karate,” karate done set to accompanying music. The class was led by Bunshiro Nagamine, 43, a teacher at Tomari Elementary School in Naha.
Similar to Radio Calisthenics, Radio Karate is a guided exercise that sets a karate routine to music. Nagamine has been busy promoting Radio Karate for the past seven years, said it was created hoping “it would help cultivate the spirits and bodies of kicks with Okinawan culture.”
Nagamine set the students at ease by wearing his favorite karate mask, reviewing the basic Kata 1 and showing them Kata 2. He explained the movies one by one, with instructions like “Don’t waste your energy,” “Do a high thrust here.” Using Nagamine as an example, the student worked up a sweat following his voice; “One step forward on one,” “here a right hand.”
Second-year student Ririna Miyamoto, 16, who has experience learning Karate from when she was four through the second grade, said “With the shouts, it all came back. I want to remember the more difficult moves.” Takahiro Oshiro ,17, also a second-year, said smiling, “The kicks were difficult, but Mr. Nagamine’s instructions were easy to understand.”
Third-year student Masatomo Koja, 17, said, “The two-hand thrust was funny. I want to do it again.”
The students plan to perform Radio Karate at their sports festival in December.
(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

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