Traditionally the European practitioners are meeting the southern France for the yearly seminar of their organisation (Kobukai Europe). This seminar is organized to get the most of the Kobukai members to train together and to test the most advanced of them. Despite the new raise of the pandemic, the seminar took place from July 8th to 11th. Kobudo Training Lot of training were planned for this seminar with 2 daily sessions and test at the end of this camp.For Kyu practitioners 3 to 4 weapons are studied :– Bo– Sai– Tonfa– Nunchuk on top of the Traditional Hojo Undo and the katas lot of applications and bunkais were studied and…

Last Feb’15th was hold the Kobudo French Cup organized by the Karate French Federation (FFK) & Oshiro sensei.It was great event and all kobudokas were super happy to go back to ‘Normal life’ after 2 years without competition due to the pandemic. 4 Kobudo scholls were competing in the French Cup : Matayoshi-kobudo Ryukyu-kobudo Koburyu Kobudo Yamane-ryu For the Koburyu, Josepha Leconte won the Cup in Women Bō (Long Staff).Congratulations Josepha it is a fantastic achievement, we are very proud of you and very happy to have the luck to train with you.

European Kobukai has launched their Youtube Channel.In this Channel, you will find latest Kobudo clips with all the Koburyu Kobudo Weapons : Long Staff (Bo) Sai Tonfa Nunchaku Kama Tenaka Some example of clips : You can access to the Channel by clicking here. The European Kobukai Europe website is available at the following URL : https://kobukai-europe.com