All Wado Karate Forum

You could do a lot worse than start with this selection:

http://seinenkai.com/articles/swift/swift-tidbits1.html

There are 4 parts to this article on the early karate books, but the page numbers are easily missed - they are in the title block at the top of the page.

Ben

In the 60s there was a wado ryu connection but Hirano obviously changed direction. http://vimeo.com/15902417 oneya Surprised to see them wearing trainers - looks strange. Just like the American 'Black Belt' magazine people of the '70's. It mentions Tsuchiya as partner to Hirano. Shiomitsu mentions ...

In the 60s there was a wado ryu connection but Hirano obviously changed direction. http://vimeo.com/15902417 oneya Surprised to see them wearing trainers - looks strange. Just like the American 'Black Belt' magazine people of the '70's. It mentions Tsuchiya as partner to Hirano. Shiomitsu mentions ...

Would you like your son to follow in your footsteps and become a Karate champion Well,l would like him to train in Karate when he is old enough but it is not so necessary to become a champion. To become a good person is much more important. Thanks for this Ben, .... his answer here is typical of th...

I received this email today from someone in Saitama, just outside of Tokyo, explaining the current situation in Japan: Well,there is a series of aftershocks and many people are still nervous.There was an earthquake yesterday and was a blackout temporarily. There is a relatively big one once in a wee...

Mentioned in my earlier post about Kono and others, here is a photo of them all:
L-R: Mochizuki, Kono, Suzuki, Yamashita and Toyama

Ben

Just a quick photo to go with the interview. This was taken at the 1968 Championships held in London.

Ben

This is taken from a magazine called 'Fighting Arts' and was published mid-70's. The following interview is with a prominent Wado-ryu Karate teacher and former All-Japan Champion, Fujii sensei, who taught in Europe for some years and then disappeared quite suddenly from the Karate scene. The intervi...

Fujii was actually the only member of the team who achieved that top position. Maeda Tadayuki was a runner up in the 1968 university championships and both Shiomitsu and Kitamura were member of the winning university teams (Nichidai and Nodai respectively) in their years, but were not individual al...

Just going back to the question about why Fujii sensei originally came to the UK, obviously, it tended to be the case that the people Suzuki sensei brought over were his close group, or else people who were recommended to him as having an ability to handle themselves well. Whilst this was important ...