Lift Hands Volume 20 December 2021 - The Multi-Award Winning Martial Arts Magazine

There were always moments of laughter. To my right is sponsor Leonid Schepkin Sensei who now lives in Moscow, and to my left is a happy participant.

Last Row Left: Valery Kusiy from Odessa, Ukraine, who succeeded in becoming the Director of Goju Ryu Karate Do and Ryu Kobudo, as well as, the chief promoter and most successful of traditional tournament events. Last Row Right: Vladimir Sitnik Sensei (in spite of geographical and language difficulties) developed Goju Ryu Karate Do in the Sverdlovsk Region. Sitnik Sensei is no longer with us, but forever lives in our hearts. (Passed away on September 8, 2009)

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Lift Hands Volume 20 December 2021 - The Multi-Award Winning Martial Arts Magazine

Published on Dec 31, 2021Martial Arts

Nasser Butt

Lift Hands - The multi-award winning magazine - Voted Magazine of the Year 2019 by The British Martial Arts Awards 2019. When one really thinks about Lift Hands, you’ll discover that it is not just an isolated posture from one of a myriad of martial arts available around the globe. Just as we lift our hands for combat, equally we also lift our hands in prayer, play, dance, to write, to paint, to greet, to wave goodbye, to hold and support a child or one of age, or to embrace or protect those we love. Lift Hands is innate within us all - regardless of the fact of whether we do martial arts or not - a movement inherited in the womb just like sight, taste, smell and hearing. It is an intrinsic, instinctive, unlearned and untaught part of the human condition. Everything we do in life involves lifting our hands... it is our intent which dictates what our hands do once they are lifted! Lift Hands will dare to be different from the usual crop of magazines on the subject. We are a work in progress...