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Igor, I do sympathise with some of your points of transmission. As the first generation of Wado pioneers get older and pass on, is there a risk that what could have been transmitted just get lost in a void? Is it worth trying to pass on a clone though? Or is the value in the transmission of a contin...

Maybe he heard your thoughts and hit you to shut you up :-)

Friday hasn't really started yet so I have a full day to get through before the Shiraz Mouvedre.

I will give a couple of examples. I am quite good at a competition style reverse punch, its long and covers a good distance. I would often catch people with it. However its now quite rare that I will be able to attack with it as people have learnt and adapted. They see it coming, draw up into cat s...

I can move it once it gets going.

Andy If I can correct one thing first this then leads to the second point. I think you should be saying that you were practising the Kihon Kumite rather than the "kihons". So, this approach to Kumite is the Kihon form is one way of looking at things. My take on it is that you are not pract...

Following on from this line of discussion, I have been trying to get the warm up period in the lesson to work on, maybe unwittingly for students, aspects of body movement and engagement that bring the connectedness and smooth free flowing motion. Maybe sometimes it is hidden as to imbued it without ...

I would definitely say that listening, looking and being on the receiving end has always been a nudge and an small incremental piece of education. The instructors do not hand out course notes! That is the difference, hence we have to grab what we can and then dwell on it. It also means we have to ha...

That is an answer that can only come with time and trial and error. But, if you are in it for the long game, for the whole of life experience, then it seems to follow.

Anything to do with them being outside in the dirt and not bringing it back into the dojo?

Obviously if inside they would not wear geta.