Wado in Russia (Академия единоборств)
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:25 pm
Inside the parenthesis in the topic is the name of a Russian TV-series that dealt with different martial arts.
According to a Russian-Finn the arts in different episodes were:
Kyokushinkai, Koshiki, Shotokan, Shitoryu, Wadoryu, Kudo, Ashihara, Uechiryu, Gojurju, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Hapkido, Aikido, Savate, Penchak Silat, Hong Za
In each episode they took a fight / sparring session against a boxer or a kick-boxer. The only people who succeeded in the fight were according to the same guy only Wadokai and Taekwondo. Surprisingly everyone else failed. I watched the Wadokai-episode and it seems like the fight is sparring and the rules seem to be something like "let's say you did well" / "let's say you sucked". Of course I cannot know for certain.
Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U539Y2fg6Q
you have the complete episode with Wado. The Wado people are Vladimir Hripunov (Владимир Хрипунов) 3. dan Wadokai and Roman Suharev (Роман Сухарев) 1. dan Wadokai. Roman Suharev is the fighter. The Wadokas seem to be from a club called Centrwado in Moscow.
http://www.centrwado.ru
If I don't make a spelling mistake the boxer who is against Suharev is named Vitali Popov.
Timeline of the episode:
-> 2:00 Theme + studio talk
02:00 - 07:17 History etc, including material from the Budokan and Ajari videos + other footage
07:17 - 17:37 Studio talk
17:37 - 20:18 Training footage from the club
20:18 - 32:22 Studio talk
32:22 - 34:30 Footage from the club and from various videos (Jiro and Kazutaka Ohtsuka: Idori, The best of Wado-ryu, Essence of Wadoryu 4. Fukuzawa doing idori...) about different forms of kumite
34:30 - 42:25 Studio Talk
42:25 - 44:07 The fight
44:07 -> Studio talk + ending
The guy who wrote more about this show told that the feedback towards the styles that didn't make it was quite "straightforward" and that a lot of people who failed in the fight made pathetic excuses. Of course I don't know how much of this came from the messenger.
To make this topic more interesting, let's not limit ourselves only to the show. Could someone tell something about Russian Wado in general? It could be whatever: past, present, future, people you have met, clubs etc etc.
How much competiton oriented is the Russian Wado?
As far as I know I haven't ever met a Russian Wadoka, living in Russia and training in a Russian Wado club and I cannot understand the language, so for me the internet is a very limited tool in this journey.
According to a Russian-Finn the arts in different episodes were:
Kyokushinkai, Koshiki, Shotokan, Shitoryu, Wadoryu, Kudo, Ashihara, Uechiryu, Gojurju, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Hapkido, Aikido, Savate, Penchak Silat, Hong Za
In each episode they took a fight / sparring session against a boxer or a kick-boxer. The only people who succeeded in the fight were according to the same guy only Wadokai and Taekwondo. Surprisingly everyone else failed. I watched the Wadokai-episode and it seems like the fight is sparring and the rules seem to be something like "let's say you did well" / "let's say you sucked". Of course I cannot know for certain.
Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U539Y2fg6Q
you have the complete episode with Wado. The Wado people are Vladimir Hripunov (Владимир Хрипунов) 3. dan Wadokai and Roman Suharev (Роман Сухарев) 1. dan Wadokai. Roman Suharev is the fighter. The Wadokas seem to be from a club called Centrwado in Moscow.
http://www.centrwado.ru
If I don't make a spelling mistake the boxer who is against Suharev is named Vitali Popov.
Timeline of the episode:
-> 2:00 Theme + studio talk
02:00 - 07:17 History etc, including material from the Budokan and Ajari videos + other footage
07:17 - 17:37 Studio talk
17:37 - 20:18 Training footage from the club
20:18 - 32:22 Studio talk
32:22 - 34:30 Footage from the club and from various videos (Jiro and Kazutaka Ohtsuka: Idori, The best of Wado-ryu, Essence of Wadoryu 4. Fukuzawa doing idori...) about different forms of kumite
34:30 - 42:25 Studio Talk
42:25 - 44:07 The fight
44:07 -> Studio talk + ending
The guy who wrote more about this show told that the feedback towards the styles that didn't make it was quite "straightforward" and that a lot of people who failed in the fight made pathetic excuses. Of course I don't know how much of this came from the messenger.
To make this topic more interesting, let's not limit ourselves only to the show. Could someone tell something about Russian Wado in general? It could be whatever: past, present, future, people you have met, clubs etc etc.
How much competiton oriented is the Russian Wado?
As far as I know I haven't ever met a Russian Wadoka, living in Russia and training in a Russian Wado club and I cannot understand the language, so for me the internet is a very limited tool in this journey.