Technique

Maki Komi Nage of Ashihara Karate 2
Nasiera Abrahams of Ashihara Karate International Honbu Dojo in Cape Town performs Maki Komi Nage (forward rolling throw) against a right gyaku tsuki of fellow black belt Aziza Rawoot. Taken in Feb 2018, both are direct students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker

Hiki Taoshi of Ashihara Karate 2
Nasiera Abrahams of Ashihara Karate International Honbu Dojo in Cape Town performs Hiki Taoshi (pull down) against a right mae geri of fellow black belt Aziza Rawoot. Taken in Feb 2018, both are direct students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker

Ashihara Karate – Sadiya Narker does Kani Basami 2
Sadiya Narker, 7 years old (2018) practises Kani Basami – the scissors against dojo mate Umer Sasman at the Ashihara Karate International Honbu Dojo (LOFOB) in Grassy Park, Cape Town, South Africa.

Sabaki Kumite of Ashihara Karate
Sabaki Kumite – Nasiera Abrahams defends with soto uke and counters with mawashi geri against Aziza Rawoot attacking with gyaku tsuki. Aziza shows why it’s important to have a good kamae by being able to protect herself against that jodan mawashi geri. See the pushing of the hand that determines where the kick will go. Both are students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker at the Ashihara Karate AKI Honbu Dojo in Cape Town, South Africa

Sabaki Kumite of Ashihara Karate 2
Sabaki Kumite in slow motion – Nasiera Abrahams defends with soto uke and counters with mawashi geri against Aziza Rawoot attacking with gyaku tsuki. See the motion of the pushing hand that determines where the kick will go. Both are students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker at the Ashihara Karate AKI Honbu Dojo in Cape Town, South Africa

Sabaki Takedown in Ashihara Karate
Sabaki Takedown – AKI honbu black belt, Aziza Rawoot defends against Shehama Davids Sasman’s Mae Geri. Both are students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker at the Ashihara Karate AKI Honbu Dojo in Cape Town, South Africa

Ura Nage of Ashihara Karate
Aziza Rawoot defends against a right mae geri of fellow black belt Nasiera Abrahams with soto uke to mawashi uke to hiza geri finishing off with ura nage and right tsuki todome. Both are students of Kaicho Hoosain Narker at the Ashihara Karate AKI Honbu Dojo in Cape Town, South Africa

Nasiera Abrahams performs Aikisambo technique – Feb 2019
Nasiera Abrahams, Ashihara Karate AKI lady yudansha (and student of Kaicho Hoosain Narker) performing an aikisambo technique with visiting Japanese instructor, Kenji Nakazawa kancho at the Ashihara Karate AKI Honbu Dojo.

Ashihara Karate – Francious Williams does Kani Basami
Francious Williams, a long term Yudansha (black belt student) of Kaicho Hoosain Narker demonstrates Kani Basami – the scissors against visiting Ethiopian karateka Tesfu Goshu at the Ashihara Karate International Honbu Dojo (LOFOB) in Grassy Park, Cape Town, South Africa during December 2019.

Maki Komi Nage of Ashihara Karate – Oct 2020
Gakiem Hayzer, a 30+ year veteran student of Kaicho Hoosain Narker at the Ashihara Karate International So-Honbu in Cape Town, South Africa, performs ashihara karate’s maki komi nage (forward rolling throw). Simba Chipidza attacks with a right punch, .block with soto uke, hiza geri, spin around throw and finish off with a punch but also having elbow lock in place…