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Wadoka, just out of interest, how many of the people who you turn away or tell to try another club first end up coming back?

So, maybe another reason to wear white is precisely because it's the hardest color to keep clean? This is precisely my point Monkey Mind - with black dogi you can cover it up and forget it - with white dogi it takes continuous effort. This is renshu. oneya Renshu is all very well, but what about th...

I see what you mean. I don't know if I can explain it very well, except to say it's like a mental switch. Because Shotokan does have such a different feel to it, it just feels like doing something completely different. Like playing football and basketball - they're so different that you can play bot...

With such a varied program though I'd be interested in how you can separate the different concepts and or principles well enough to know when you are practicing wado ryu.? I think a lot of instructors have a few "special" techniques which are not strictly traditional wado ryu. I think it'...

Apologies for the typos and misplaced text. I'm typing this on a mobile and it sometimes does odd things.

As I feared, I think I have been misunderstood. I said my sesnsei would not like to be told what to do, but I didn't mean he doesn't like change. It was a throw-away comment on my part and I really didn't mean anything all that deep by it. Simply that he wouldn't like to have the change imposed on h...

Welcome Mark, Just curious, how does one qualify to be one of the ‘older karate men’? What are the criteria? Tim I don't have any specific criteria in mind, but he's pushing 70, if that helps. It would be his loss. The Wadokai would be good for him but only if he wanted to get better. Or Wadoryu. Y...

The more I think about it, the more I tend to think it doesn't really matter. The idea of large organisations with many clubs belonging to them seems to me to be a relatively new thing in the history of martial arts. I may be wrong, but historically, my understanding is that it would have been just ...