All Wado Karate Forum

Great book! On page 194 there is a picture of several british top fighters together with sensei Tatsuo Suzuki. Everybody is named except one, he is called "unknown". The unknown fighter in the picture is sensei Jon Wicks, Suzuki sensei´s successor and chief instructor of Wado International...

WIKF World Championship in London 20-22. September 2013 App. 700 entries in kata, kumite, team fight and tanto dori (knife defence). It was the best arranged tournament I have ever been to. Very interesting for parents and supporters to see this kind of karate tournament with ”super finals” startin...

I think kata training is very useful for fighters. It is an excellent tool for developing coordination, and kata is the best way to learn how to generate power and make powerful attacks and blocks in all directions. Wado kata helps us to develop speed. All top fighters need to: 1. Have good techniqu...

In the south school of Taiji there is 37 different stances which is used for developing 37 different internal ”forces” (expansion force, vibration force, spiraling force, listening force, etc.). The principles: Align the body correctly, relax the muscles and mind, open the joints and activate tanden...

I find it difficult to mix Wado and the use of strong internal forces. Combining OK, mixing difficult. Since developing internal forces have not been an important part of my karate training, using such forces in Wado techniques would mean that I would have to change the way I do many techniques. In ...

Bob Nash, thank you for an excellent post. Internal power is a very interesting topic. I have also seen and felt the effect of the super human like power many times. I have read a lot about internal power in chinese arts (taiji, bagua, hsing-yi) and some japanese arts (aikido, daito ryu) and religio...

Wim Massee was a high level judo competitor in the 1960s. He also has a strong background in jiu jitsu. He is an excellent karate instructor and a very nice man. His story and some old karate pictures: "My history starts in 1966 when sensei Teruo Kono arrived in the Netherlands. Then, I was a J...

Some photos from Eleni Labiri Suzuki:
http://suzukiwado.com/europeanchampions ... rousel-110

Eleni has the copyright of these photos.
She is one of the top photographers in England.

Pictures and reports from an english club:
http://www.cmakarate.co.uk/updates-from-greece.html

The WIKF European Championship in Greece 28/29/30/ of september 2012: - 22 Nations participated - Many world class fighters (all style) - Several of the top fighters competed in kata It was nice to see that so many wado-competitors are among the world´s top fighters in WKF/all style. My students rec...

Hi Shaun, Kumite is still about controlling distance and angle of attack. In local and national competitions the fighting has not changed much from 10 years ago. (But in the top international competitions like the world championships there has been a lot of changes in tactics and techniques.) Be pre...