{"id":19196,"date":"2010-11-05T02:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyokushinkaikan-demo-org.check-xserver.jp\/en\/2010\/11\/05\/7th_north_american_intl_black_belt_conference_in_banff_canada\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:14:54","slug":"7th_north_american_intl_black_belt_conference_in_banff_canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/19196\/","title":{"rendered":"7th North American &amp; Int&#8217;l Black Belt Conference in Banff, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font color=\"#000000\">On October 8, 9 &amp; 10, 2010, black belts from across the globe gathered for the 7<sup>th<\/sup> North American and International Brown and Black Belt Conference, hosted by Branch Chief Shihan Stuart Corrigal and active instructors in Western Canada. <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font color=\"#000000\">In attendance were 110 from Canada, Japan, USA, Singapore, England and Scotland.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font color=\"#000000\">Energy and inspiration infused the group as Kancho Matsui, along with Shihans Corrigal(s), Gorai, and Gilbert led students on a three-day exploration of the complexities of kihon, kata, goshin jitsu, and kumite. <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font color=\"#000000\">The principle that even the most basic movements must be deconstructed and examined regularly in order to preserve the true essence of Kyokushin technique was a common thread through all the teachings of the weekend. <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font color=\"#000000\">Training sessions were punctuated with lively meals, group discussions, social gatherings, and a refreshing hike up to the top of Tunnel Mountain where the group trained loud and strong under the Alberta &#8220;Big Sky&#8221;, overlooking the spectacular Bow River valley.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"2010BBC 457.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/2010BBC%20457.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"Mokuso_Tunnet_Mt_1690m_5545FT.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/Mokuso_Tunnet_Mt_1690m_5545FT.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 8, 9 &amp; 10, 2010, black belts from across the globe gathered for the 7th North American and Inte [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-test.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}