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Robert Liljeblad
23rd April 2002, 10:10
Hi all,

What Shorinji Kempo homepage is youre favorite ?

Br,

dan_norris
23rd April 2002, 19:06
Hello Robert,

Hmmm......thats a good question. I haven't all of them. I guess so far I'd have to go with the main one. That one gives you some good information and is seems to remain updated. Do have any recommended ones to check out?

Kimpatsu
24th April 2002, 03:19
Robert-san, Dan-san,
Gassho.
If you're really serious about trying to find "the best homepage," you'll need to view an awful lot of them. Go here (http://www.shorinjikempo.or.jp/link/index.htm) and view all of these branch web pages before voting. That should keep you busy until the next century... :laugh:
Kesshu.

Robert Liljeblad
24th April 2002, 08:44
Hi,

After Tony-sans list of SK webpages I will narrow my question to the favorite SK page in English.

My candidates are:

Keijiro Hayashi (http://homepage1.nifty.com/shorinji/books-ef.htm)

Swedish SK Federation (http://www.shorinji-kempo.org)

What candidates do you have?



Br,

Robert:wave:

satsukikorin
13th February 2004, 07:30
Got to agree with Robert--Kenseikai and Sweden hold the title for me, although maybe Hombu is right up there with 'em since they've implemented the News page.

David Dunn
13th February 2004, 11:15
I think the kensei kai is up there. The descriptions are excellent:


Your opponent tries to offend you. Before his attack comes, counterattack with your kick.

The Swedish Federation is probably the most comprehensive source of information in English. I have to speak up for the BSKF site. It is designed for informing non-kenshi about Shorinji Kempo in the UK. As a quick, accurate and easily navigated site it is second to none of that type. At the same time, not too many clicks from the front are resources for kenshi. There would be more if more people submitted articles. I found an old BSKF Gassho (c. 1996) the other day, with a word from the editor, one T. Leith, bemoaning the lack of submissions. Plus ca change. (edit): inside information also gives that the BSKF site will handle all the federation's admin, which will make it the first of its kind I guess.

The revolution is coming. (http://www.uwesu.net/shorinji/images.shtml) This is work in progress, but give us a few months. :D

luar
13th February 2004, 14:05
I cannot deny that our branch website was heavily influenced by the rich content of the infamous Swedish website but I think the amount of work that goes into Keijiro Hayashi's website is not only worthy of any kinds of award but also a crucial resource for kenshi worldwide.

BTW, the WSKO has a lot of syntax errors in their URL links particularly of those for the North American branches. I suggest that some of you check out your branch contact information and make sure that the links work.

tony leith
13th February 2004, 14:31
Or in other words, I'm chickening out of nominating a favourite - if I nominate our own site for the Glasgow city Club it would look a tad biased, if I don't our resident webmaster might be a bit peeved. I do like the Swedish federation site - in terms of content it's certainly up there. The BSKF site is also excellent - we took our design cues fromt here in terms of the look of our own site (alright I say we, I mean Dave Campbell, who did the actual work).

Incidentally for those who might be interested there are some images up in our gallery section (www.gcsk.org.uk). I agonised a bit about whether we should include explicit shots of how to execute gatame waza on our site. I go to the UWE site, and what do I see front page, dead centre, Sensei Dave Dunn inflicting ura gatame on some hapless victim... ho hum.

To be honest as an ex Gassho editor I feel guilty in the extreme about not having volunteered content for the BSKF site - I just doubt very much whether any contribution I could make would measure up to the standards established by Dave and George's articles on sutemi and randori for example. It's another classic illustration of the free rider problem, I suppose.

One of my favourite bits of a Shorinji Kempo site is at Tokyo Uni, which has cute little gifs of animated kenshi executing techniques. Great fun, and surprisingly successful in terms of actually representing the techniques..

Tony leith

jonboy
13th February 2004, 15:36
Tony,

I think Dave must have sent you a link to our images page. It is not linked up to the main site yet as we are still putting the site together. Nice pic though, isn't it?

That hapless vistim is me I'm affraid. And anyway, am I not meant to be fortunate to have such things done on me? oh and I was faking ;)


I just doubt very much whether any contribution I could make would measure up to the standards...

You get that too, do you?

laters

Laurent ESPESO
13th February 2004, 15:55
Gassho,

Nowdays, it is possible to find some good information on Shorinji Kempo shibu homepages.
I think that it is really convenient for people who cannot speack any japanese due to the small written articles about Shorinji Kempo in english, french or spanish.
After seeing a lot of pages from everywhere in the world and so many of the japanese pages I have my favourite ones.

So, for me, the more interesting homepages in english are of course the:
- Swedish Shorinji Kempo Federation Homepage: http://www.shorinji-kempo.org/
- British Shorinji Kempo Federation: http://www.bskf.org/

In Japanese, a very complete source of information is Mr Okada's homepage: http://www.shorinji.com/

And in Spanish, the new webpage of Shokema Branch (from Málaga) is getting to be a good ressource homepage with a new forum for spanish speakers:
http://www.shokema.com/

My choice is not really original but I can't choose any other page before those ones...

Kesshu,

Laurent Espeso
Shorinji Kempo
Vaugirard Branch Secretary

David Dunn
13th February 2004, 16:09
Originally posted by jonboy
I think Dave must have sent you a link to our images page. ...

That hapless vistim is me I'm affraid. And anyway, am I not meant to be fortunate to have such things done on me? oh and I was faking ;)

Yes, sorry. If you delete the last filename from the URL you should get the homepage, or click here (http://www.uwesu.net/shorinji/) . We're trying to get some nice pics to illustrate site. While digital photography is easy for the layperson, it's still bloody difficult to pull off a good photo. We've taken dozens, different angles, lighting etc, in class, in different studios, and only a very few stand out as worth using.

The uwa uke zuki one looks a bit static. We did a photo shoot in Clapham about 8 years ago. One of them was Yasue Sensei demonstrating uwa uke zuki on me. When the polaroid was taken, it was agreed that I looked "too comfortable," so Yasue Sensei should strike with a [i]bit[\i] of power. Next polaroid looked much better, so the photographer said, "ten like that." I almost barfed after about four, nearly passed out after about six, and had no recollection of the last few. Which brings us neatly on to the subject of faking it, Jon :D

On a serious note, Shorinji Kempo is a photogenic art when the photos are just right.