Monday, October 12, 2009

MAJLIS SUKAN UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA

CALLING ATHLETES FOR MASUM 2010

TRAINING STARTS NOW.


MONDAY(S) & WEDNESDAY(S)
8.30 PM - 1030 PM
FEMALE SPORT COMPLEX (LVL 2)



Monday, October 5, 2009

AGM & GRAND RAYA CELEBRATION

SELAMAT HARI RAYA!

On Friday night (02-Oct-2009), we held our Annual Grand Meeting and Raya Celebration which was attended by our respected, Ustaz Hamidon, Dr Fatimah Fathil, our beloved Sensei Hadi, Sensei Mizan and wives, most members of Shito-Ryu, as well as members from other Martial Arts).

The night kicked off with the normalities, as you can see from the tentative. Doa by our very own afif, speeches by abg iman, ustaz hamidon. Ustaz Hamidon gave a very fruitful speech that night, encouraging us, and enlightening us with his words, stories, and philosophies.

The night continued on with the alteration of the constitution which was conducted by Abg. Iman. I will be posting those particulars soon for those who would like a clearer view of what grounds this club is based upon.

Constitution of IIUM Shito-Ryu Karate-Do Club

The new board of members were finally announced and selected! COngratulations to the new board..And special thanks for the older board members..!! Please refer to sidebar for new organisational chart..

After all the formalities, we officially started our RAYA CELEBRATION. with raya music continuously playing, short video, everyone enjoyed their food and company.





We had 5 lucky draws, and awards..

Most Committed Member AWARD : Salwan
Full Training Attendance AWARD : Yusuf & Salwan
Best Dressed AWARD : Aziz & Sarah

The Fireworks were a blast! Thanks to Abg. Asrar!

AGAIN...GREAT WORK TO ALL WHO WERE INVOLVED AND ALL WHO CAME..


Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Grand Raya Celebration

MASUM IFTAR (3rd September 2009)




We finally got together, us, MASUM people, for our dinner. What a way to spend our cash prize money..
People present :
Sensei Hadi and beloved Wifey, Kak Mira & sis, Kak Ecam, Abg. Iman, Abg. Asrar, Salwan, Nazirah, Me (Sarah), Ili, Zul, Nasree and Kak Zila.
Location : Kenny Rogers, JJ Setiawangsa, Baskin Robbins, Outdoor JJ..

We had Kenny Rodgers for berbuka puasa..



After Maghrib prayers, we hung out at Baskin Robbins for some dessert. As usual, where there is Karate-ka, there is noise and havocness (mostly caused by our very own Abg. Imanla..hehe..).


Then finally, we cam-whored outside of JJ Setiawangsa, as usual. Karate-ka = suke amek gambar. hehe..which is a good thing,FYI..

Anyways, in a nutshell..best ah. =D.

WARDANCE!! (15th August 2009)

Wardance Team 2009/2010


What is Wardance?

It’s a competition held by the Kulliyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED) under it’s oh so famous KAEDFEST which they launch every year.

Wardance is open to all martial art groups/clubs in IIUM. They consist of Silat, Karate-Do, Taekwondo, and others. Participation was on a group basis, where a team can consist of around 10 people.

The basics of the competition is performance/demonstration of martial arts. Usually accompanied by music.

FYI, Karate-Do Women's team used a quite catchy tune for our performance. The track is called Boomerang by Blumchen, and was introduced by our very own Kak Ecam ;-)..

The choreographing was also conducted by our beloved Kak Ecam..Congrats to all..your hard work paid off! you guys will forever..ROCK..!



CONGRATULATIONS!!! Karate-Do won 2nd place in WARDANCE 2009/2010. Lets do it again, next year! =D.



P.S : I will post up the video soon, once i get it..


Mass Gathering 2009/2010



Our first Mass Gathering for new members this year!

Although not many showed up for our Mass Gath, we still managed to get together, have a little fun, and ate good food! As the saying goes, “Quality over Quantity”.

Thanks so much to those who attended and to all Committee members who were involved..your efforts are always appreciated..

UKHUWAH DAY with NILAI & PJ karate (August 2009)


We trained, we learned new things, we interracted, but most importantly, we had LOTSA FUN!


Thanks to our members from NILAI, and PJ for making an effort to come!
We hope all of u enjoyed yourselves. We sure did enjoy your company and can't wait to see you guys here in Main Campus!

Anyway, what did we DO??

  1. Warm-up, Kata Training with Abg. Iman
  2. Games
  3. Breakfast
  4. IIUM short Tour
  5. Movie Show (Black Belt)
  6. Karate Seminar with Sensei Mizan
  7. BBQ!
  8. Depart..=(.
Here are some pics !




Monday, September 14, 2009

WHATS BEEN GOING ON??!

Hellloooo faithful followers of iium shitoryu BLOG!

First and foremost..apologies and ampuns to all cos of the very2 delayed updates. things come up, people get busy, and priorities go haywire. but, nontheless, that should not be a reason to let you guys down! =D.

Anyway, tak nak say too much, in the next couple of posts i will be posting some updates and some pictures for your enjoyment! keep track of us on FACEBOOK guys! add me or other(s). sare87@gmail.com. ;-).

MASUM (you may refer to Dr. Iman's posts before this).






Wednesday, August 19, 2009

What Does a Black Belt Really Mean?

By: Reverend Kensho Furuya

Through the popularity of this column, I get correspondence from all over the country. And the most commonly asked question is, "How long does it take to get a black belt?" I don't know how this question is answered in other schools, but my students know that asking such a question in my dojo would set them back several years in their training. It would be a disaster.

Most people would be overjoyed if I would say it takes just a couple of years to get a black belt, but unfortunately it does not. And though I am afraid most people would not be happy with my answer, I thinkthe general misconception about "what is a black belt?" should be clarified as much as possible. This is not a popular subject to discuss in the way I am going to. Indeed, I warn my students not to ask the question in the first place. The answer is not what they want to hear.

How do you get a black belt? You find a competent teacher and a good school, begin training and work hard. Someday, who knows when, it will come. It is not easy, but it's worth it. It may take one year; it may take ten years. You may never achieve it. When you come to realize that the black belt is not as important as the practice itself, you are probably approaching black belt level. When you realize that no matter how long or how hard you train, there is a lifetime of study and practice ahead of you until you die, you are probably getting close to a black belt.

At whatever level you achieve, if you think you "deserve" a black belt, or if you think you are now "good enough" to be a black belt, you are way off the mark, and, indeed a very long way from reaching your black belt.

Train hard, be humble, don't show off in front of your teacher or other students, don't complain about any task and do your best in everything in your life. This is what it means to be a black belt.

To be overconfident, to show off your skill, to be competitive, to look down on others, to show lack of respect, and to pick and chose what you do and don't do (believing that some jobs are beneath your dignity) characterize the student who will never achieve black belt. What they wear around their waist is simply a piece of merchandise brought for a few dollars in a martial arts supply store.

The real black belt, worn by a real black belt holder, is the white belt of a beginner, turned black by the color of his blood and sweat.

Training Pattern

The first level of black belt in Japanese is called shodan. It literally means, "first level". Sho (first) is an interesting ideograph. It is comprised of two radicals meaning "cloth" and "knife". To make a piece of clothing, one first cuts out the pattern of the cloth. The pattern determines the style and look of the final product. If the pattern is out of proportion or in error, the clothes will look bad and not fit properly. In the same way, your initial training to reach black belt is very important; it determines how you will eventually turn out as a black belt.

In my many years of teaching, I have noticed that the students who are solely concerned with getting their black belt discourage easily, as soon as they realize it is harder than they expected. Students who come in just for practice, without concern for rank and promotion, always do well. They are not crushed by shallow or unrealistic goals.

There is a famous story about Yagyu Matajuro, who was a son of the famous Yagyu family of swordsmen in 17th century feudal Japan. He was kicked out of the house for lack of talent and potential, and sought out instruction of the swordmaster Tsukahara Bokuden, with the hope of achieving mastery of the sword and regaining his family position.

On their initial interview, Matajuro asked Tsukahara Bokuden, "How long will it take me to master the sword?" Bokuden replied, "Oh, about five years if you train very hard."

"If I train twice as hard, how long will it take?" inquired Matajuro. "In that case, ten years," retorted Bokuden.

Finding a Focus

What do you focus on if you don't focus on attaining your black belt? It is easier said than done, but you must focus your energy on practice. However, to think, "I will concentrate on my training to get a black belt," is simply playing mind games with yourself and will ultimately lead to your own disappointment.

Can you simply think, "I forget about rank completely?" Can you simply say to yourself that you will never achieve it? Will you always be attached to your black belt, allowing the idea to linger in the back of your mind? In other words, can you simply concentrate on your training without regards for anything else? Can you finally realize that your black belt is nothing more than "something to hold up your pants?"

You should also realize that although you master all the requirements, the correct number of techniques, all the required forms and put in the appropriate amount of hours training, you may still not qualify for black belt. To achieve black belt is not a quantitative entity, which can be measured or weighed like buying string beans in the market. Your black belt has to do with you as a person.

How you conduct yourself in and out of the dojo, your attitude to your teacher and fellow students, your goals in life, how you handle the obstacles in your life, and how you persevere in your training are all important conditions of your black belt. At the same time, you become a model to other students and eventually reach the status of teacher or assistant instructor. In the dojo, your responsibilities are greater than the regular students and you are held accountable to much, much more than those junior to yourself. You responsibilities are great as a black belt holder.

Achieving Training Focus

How do we focus on our training? Successful training means, to a great degree, that we look at what we do from a reasonable and realistic viewpoint. More often than not, we are not looking at realistic goals but dreams and delusions. Do you want to excel in martial arts as a way to improve yourself and your life, or are you motivated by the latest cops and robbers movie? Is your practice motivated by a strong desire to enlighten yourself, or do you simply want to imitate the latest martial arts movie stars? Although experienced martial artists may snicker, it is amazing how many inquire about martial arts saying they want to be just like Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal. But those people are themselves by their own efforts. You are yourself. We all have our hero, role models, and our dreams, but we have to separate out fantasies from reality if our training is to be meaningful and successful.

Reality

Training has nothing to do with rank or black belts, trophies or badges. Martial arts are not simply playing out our fantasies. It has to do with your own life and death. It is not only how we protect ourselves in a critical, lethal situation, but how we protect the lives of others as well. You cannot be another person, whether he is a movie star, great teacher or multi-millionaire. You must become yourself - your true self. As much as John Doe dreams about becoming James Dean, Bruce Lee, or Donald Trump, he can only be John Doe. When John Doe becomes John Doe 100 percent, he has become enlightened to his true self.

An average person only lives 50 percent or maybe 80 percent of his life and never knows who he is. A martial artist lives 100 percent of his life and becomes impeccable. This is what the true black belt holder must come to realize within himself. He is no other than himself, and his practice leads to enlightenment into nature of his true self, his real self. This is the essence of our training in martial arts.

Achieving your Black Belt

Think of losing your black belt, not gaining it. Sawaki Kodo, a Zen Master, often said, "To gain is suffering; loss is enlightenment."

If someone were to ask the difference between martial artists of previous generations and martial artists today, I would sum it up like this. Martial artists of previous generations looked upon training as "loss". They gave up everything for their art and their practice. They gave up their families, jobs, security, fame, money, everything, to accomplish themselves.

Today, we only think of gain. "I want this, I want that." We want to practice martial arts but we also want money, a nice car, fame, portable telephones and everything that everyone else has.

Shakyamuni Buddha gave up his kingdom, his palaces, a beautiful wife, and everything else to finally seek out enlightenment. The first student of Boddhidharma, considered the founder of Shoalin Kung Fu, cut off his left arm to study with his teacher.

We don't have to take such drastic measures to learn martial arts today, but we should not forget the spirit and determination of the great masters of the past. We must realize that we have to make sacrifices in our own lives in order to pursue our training.

While the student looks at his training from the standpoint of loss instead of gain, he comes close to the spirit of mastery, and truly becomes worthy of a black belt.

Only when you finally give up all thought of rank, belts, trophies, fame, money and mastery itself, will you achieve what is really important in your training. Be humble, be gentle. Care for others and put everyone before yourself. To study martial arts is to study yourself - your true self. It has nothing to do with rank.

A great Zen " master once said: "To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to understand all things."

Edited by K.W. Pang from Martial Arts Training" (July 1991)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

MASUM 2009: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!= 9 GOLD MEDALS

Alhamdulillah. All praise to Allah for His kindness, blessings, and assistance.
Thank you to the coach for his guidance and teachings, Sensei Hardi, You are the best and may Allah bless u.
Thank you to the Team Manager for her care and concern, Sis. Nazirah, You are the best and may Allah bless u.
Thank you to all sport officers,
Tuan Noor Kefli, the director of the Sports centre IIUM, For your constant support and being there when we were fighting;
Mr. Hazeezy and his assistants, for your support and patience in catering our needs and complaints;)
Bro. Kamal, for concerning on our karate event, delivering our allowance and supporting the team;
Sis. Umi for your cheer and support with us as well as keep on taking photograph of us when we are in pain as well as in the happy moment...;
Bro. Asyraf, Kak Syarifah, Bro. Ot, and everybody who were not mentioned here,
You all are the best and May Allah blessings be with you all.
Thank you to our Madam Phisioterapist and the team from UIA Kuantan, your kindness in attending us in day and night could only be rewarded by Allah s.w.t.
Thank you to all bus drivers for your willingness to send and fetch us to the competition venue, as well as wherever places we want to go:-)
Thank you to Zul's family, (Pakcik, Makcik and adik-adik Zul yang cantik dan comel) for a very friendly hospitality when we visited your home, indeed the memory at the bendang will remain forever.
Thank you to all Karateka friends from other universities especially UiTM (you all rock!!), UM, UTM, UMP, UTEM, UUM (action Kamen?!:),USM and others, Referees and officials i.e. Sensei Chok, Master Puvaneswaran and all senseis, the hardworking tournament committees, and everybody who has involved directly and indirectly in the KARATE-DO EVENT for MASUM CARNIVAL 2009 at Dewan Muzaffar Syah, UUM Sintok Kedah.
Thank you very much from the bottom of our heart and indeed all of you are part of this success and it would not happen without your unconditional support!!! May Allah bless all of you..
Alhamdulillah!!! Domo Arigatou Gozaimashta!!!
"UIA Karatekas, The journey just begun..."
and do not forget our cheer, the laungan keramat!!!
"Lil Allahi, Mustaai'dun! Lil Islam, Mustaai'dun! Lil UIA, Mustaa'idun! Takbir!!! Allahu Akbar!!!!"
Love,
All athletes, the Karateka of UIA Karatedo Masum 2009.
-ZUL, ASZHAHARI, NASREE, SWOBRI, TENGKU ASRAR, ABDL AZIZ, IMAN, AHMET GUVEN, SHAMSIAH, SARAH,MUNIRAA, ILI, SALWAN.
May Allah accept our amaal. amiin.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

MASUM 2009: 1ST TEST FOR KARATE

ON THIS COMING 12TH MAY 2009, ALHAMDULILLAH 15 OF OUR ATHLETES WILL BE REPRESENTING UIA AS MASUM (MAALAYSIA SPORTS UNIVERSITY COUNCIL) UIA KARATE TEAM2009. KARATE-DO EVENT THAT ONLY BE INCLUDED THIS YEAR IN MASUM CARNIVAL AFTER 10 YEARS, INDEED WILL BE THE IMPORTANT ONE FOR THE TEAM AS ANY OUTCOME FROM IT WILL BE THE BENCHMARK FOR THE TEAM TO PERFORM IN THE NEXT YEAR EVENT AND OF COURSE TO OBTAIN CONFIDENCE OF UIA TO ALLOCATE A BETTER BUDGET FOR THE FUTURE TEAM INSYAALLAH.

THE TEAM WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN ALL EVENTS FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE AND IT WILL BE STRENGTHEN BY SENIOR AND EXPERIENCE ATHLETES KARATE-KA i.e BRO IMAN, BRO NASREE, BRO TENGKU ASRAR, BRO ASZHAHARI, BRO AHMET GUVEN, SIS SHAMSIAH, SIS MUNIRAA,SIS FADZILAH; WHO ALL OF THEM HAVE INVOLVED IN HIGH COMPETITIVE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PREVIOUS YEARS SUCH AS ASIAN UNIVERSITY GAMES, SUKMA, MALAYSIA KARATE FEDERATION CHAMPIONSHIP (MAKAF) AND LAST YEAR MASUM INVITATIONAL KARATE-DO CHAMPIONSHIP 2008.

HENCE, THE SQUAD WILL BE BACKED UP BY TALENTED JUNIOR ATHELETES i.e. BRO ZULHAIRI, BRO SWOBRI AND BRO ABDEL AZIZ (BOTH ARE OUR BROTHERS FROM SHOTOKAN); AS FOR SISTERS SIS SALWAN, SIS SARAH AND SIS ILI.

RESPECTED COACH, SENSEI HARDI RAIMEE HAS TARGETTED 3 GOLD MEDALS FOR THIS MASUM AND INDEED IT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY EFFORTS AND DU'A FROM ALL OF US INSYA ALLAH.

AS FOR THE ASSISTANT MANAGER, THE TEAM HAS ALL AGREED TO APPOINT BRO AFIF, OUR ATHLETE IN MILO SQUAD WHO HAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE TEAM.

FOR THIS FIRST WIRITING, ME AS THE TEAM CAPTAIN ON BEHALF OF THE TEAM WOULD LIKE TO THANK TO ALL.

PLEASE WAIT FOR NEXT UPDATES INSYA ALLAH.

GAMBARIMASHO, MAAN NAJAH INSYAALLAH!! ALLAHU MA' ANAA..AMINN.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

gmbar baruu...

guys..tau tak yg akak ada upload new picture kat gambar2 kita di bagan lalang...first click at picture at sebelah kanan page..then, click at "karate-ka" icon kat sebelah title (Bagan Lalang Feb.'09)...da ada dua album kat situ...tq..

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Onegaishimas 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


14 March o9 - Salam, IIUM Shito-ryu Karate do club telah mengadakan satu 'friendly kumite tournament' antara karateka UIA dan UiTM. Satu, program yang sangat memberansangkan. Alhamdulillah, penyertaan yang baik dari dua belah pihak UIA dan UiTM. Perlawanan bermula pada pukul 9 pagi dan berakhir pada pukul 230 petang. Kedua-dua pihak memberikan tentangan sengit walaupun terdapat ketegangan emosi di pihak perempuan namun dapat dikawal dengan sangat profesional sekali.

Di pihak perempuan karateka UIA yang di wakili oleh Shamsiah Mukhtar aka Kak Ecam telah berjaya menjadi juara.Tahniah!! Manakala di pihak lelaki, nasib tidak menyebelahi mereka kerana tiada siapa yang berjaya sampai ke final. Namun kredit harus di berikan kepada karateka-karateka UIA dan UiTM kerana menunjukkan semangat berjuang "fighting spirit" yang mantap. Setelah tamat program kami telah bergambar bersama-sama dan menambah kenalan sebanyak yang mungkin. Alhamdulillah program berjalan dengan lancar dan semoga program-program seperti ini dapat dijalankan lagi di masa hadapan.

Maju Karate untuk UIA..それを行うことができます!!!!!!!!!!!