All Wado Karate Forum

Hi Gordon,

dynamic stretches will probably bring the most improvement, simple leg raises (keeping the supporting leg straight) when warming up worked best for me. Keep statics stretches for your cool down -(these are some good statics stretches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6rdtCQoG4)

Shibmori Sensei of IWKU teaches a Wado version of Anann. He would be the technical advisor i guess for Wado in WUKF. They have even included it on their Wado Tokui kata list. I learned it a while back, though i haven't practiced at all since. Can kata from other styles be Wadoized? I guess so. I thi...

This group is led by Kando Shibamori 9th Dan. He's the Wado technical advisor to WUKF and they awarded him 9th Dan at their Euro Champs last year. The IWKU/Shibamori is based in Hungary. . Don't know who exactly are involved with IWKU but Shibamori was originaly WadoKai i believe. I'll be training w...

It has been ju-jitsud up for a demo, which is fair enough in my book. AS for being SYR techniques, I couldn't say.

Just seen these pictures - the "JKF - Wadokai" method, (the one i prefer) is the one I prcaticed in a WIKF dojo and different to how Suzuki seems to do it in the you tube posting!! I guess my sensei there just did whatever way he was originally taught - he trained with different Japanese i...

I've done it a couple of different ways. I put the left foot out when standing up, but pull the left back instead of pulling the right foot up (moving forward). The other way was just a slight twist to the left and drop on to right knee then left and and then to come up on left foot followed by righ...

90-120 mins depending what day / location it is. When working on a team kata, 3 hours but thats more technical, not physically punishing.

I was recently at a course with Shiomitsu sensei and one point he made which really stuck in mind was that Wado is 90% jujitsu, if not more. The katas we have may be okinawan in origin but the way we perform them is to practice budo movement. At least that was my understanding ot it.

thanks for the upload always, interesting to see old footage of ohtsuka

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