Part 3 of an interview we did with Noonan Sensei some time ago. Noonan Sensei is currently the most senior ranked teacher of Chito-Ryu Karate-Do in Australia. In this episode he share a bit about the technical side of his training and his experiences training with 2nd Generation Soke.—- Transcript —-Sandra: Welcome back everybody. Today we are excited to be sharing with you part three of the five-part interview with Noonan-sensei.Martin: And if you haven't already heard the first parts, be sure to go back and listen to the previous episodes.Sandra: Yeah, do that before you go on to this one. But today, in today's episode, Noonan-sensei will continue sharing more about his experiences training in Japan, and he'll also share a few ideas on the technical side of his training, and that's going to be pretty interesting.Martin: We've noticed everybody faces challenges in life, some big and some small, but not everyone has a way to navigate these problems.Sandra: It's not always easy, but we found that we always keep coming back to what we've learned from our years in the dojo.Martin: And that's what this podcast is all about.Sandra: Helping us all find the solutions to last problems, or even better yet, to remove the problems before they arise.Martin: This is Martin and Sandra Phillips, and welcome to the Karate4Life Podcast.Sandra: So, could you share more about your training? You were being in a black belt. I was.Short down. Your first time going to Japan.Noonan Sensei: Yeah.Sandra: Could you share more about the things that you did? Was it more kumite based?Noonan Sensei: No, it was the same. Look, there was probably more basics than Soke does in the morning now. But I believe that's because he thinks our basics are not too bad now.So we're doing okay. So we'll get these out of the way quick and move on to the other stuff. That's what I, that's my, that's how I perceive it.But previous to that, it was always, we'd, I don't know how many punches we do, but it was like five, at least five minutes of seiken zuki or more. And then, you know, oi zuki, gyaku zuki, oshi zuki, rinten zuki, just over and over again. And then every single kick, gedan, chudan, kata, again, over and over and over and over again.Not a lot of stretching, a bit of conditioning, you know, quite a few push-ups and cat stretches were big at that time. So I was really into those. Some, a little bit of kaishu at that stage, that first stage, a little bit of open hand.But the biggest thing was he was always telling me, you know, tanden, you got to use your tanden. He liked the fact that I, and much to the chagrin of others, because it was probably, I wasn't sure, I know in Japanese culture, it's not that polite to keep questioning people about things. But I didn't know that, so I didn't care because I didn't know.So I just had a million questions and I used to just continually ask them and I know that it probably upset other people in the dojo, but I don't care now. Maybe I should, but it doesn't bother me now because it's helped me along my way. So I asked a lot of questions continually and all sorts of questions about everything, whether it was basic, kata, it didn't matter.But he was really responsive to that and I know many years later and in the 90s when he was talking to a couple of the gents from the United States, he said to them, you know, something along the lines of, words to the effect that, you know, he asked so many questions continually and that's good, you should ask. So I realised many, many years later, after people had told me that's bad, of course, you know, I got the rap on the knuckles and you shouldn't ask that many questions and blah, blah, blah. I got a rap on the knuckles for that from different people.I still kept asking questions though, because my, for me, my learning was more important than how polite asking question was or not. Make what, you know,