00:00Oh, Lighter Lewis still going.
00:02All right, well, everybody was kung fu fighting.
00:05Well, everyone wasn't, but karate was shown to be alive
00:09and well in the Sister Isle.
00:11Well, that's because the Martial Arts Association of Tobago
00:15displayed some of their karate skills
00:16at the Milford Road Esplanade.
00:19The association, which has been around
00:21for the last two years, took the time
00:23to show their love for the art form.
00:25As a result, a number of dojos from across Tobago
00:28came out displaying their kata.
00:31In doing so, they were proving that the art form
00:33is practiced near and far, all in commemoration
00:38of the special occasion.
00:44We are here to commemorate on the Tobago Esplanade Karate
00:49Day.
00:49This is normally celebrated in Okinawa every October 25.
00:55So we wanted to come out a couple of days
00:57beforehand so that we could get things put together
01:01so that on the day, we would be able to have the videos go out
01:05to all media platforms and let Okinawa
01:08know that karate is well and alive in other places
01:12around the world.
01:13What we would have done is taken some time
01:15to go through some of the basic techniques
01:18that we do in karate, similar to what
01:21they would do in Okinawa on the Karate Day.
01:24So what you would have seen here,
01:26essentially, is the same thing that they would do in Okinawa.
01:29So you get the basic warm-up, you
01:32get some normal entry-level techniques,
01:36and then we would have done our first kata, which
01:38is Heian Shodan for us.
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