All Wado Karate Forum

WKF will NOT at this moment drop the kata list, but you can say it is only kata "by name" according to the school
you perform your kata after. Kata is also on the shortlist for the Olympics... good or no good?

Ove Viggedal
WKF Karate Referee

During the WKF Junior&Cadet World Championships 2013, in Spain I stayed at the same hotel as Inoue sensei, he is a very friendly and open minded man. We talked a lot, breakfast, dinner, breakfast, dinner…. He has a very, very high respect for Arakawa sensei and has also done some Shito&Wado ...

" the guys technique is done as a 1,2"

Well the guy is the 2 time world Kata Champion, Antonio Diaz, I do not think many guy´s techniqe is much better than this?
(exept Rika Usami i guess)

O.Viggedal

Hi

I will go to German Open WKF Premier League to referee at the end of September. Her the proposal for the new WKF kata-rules will be tested in a meet.
After this I will try to get back and give more info. if someone are interested in kata-competition .

Hi

Sorry, new webpage. The pictures will be there in five minutes.

KarareREF

Hi Just want to share som old pictuers. I "lost" the picturs some years but luckily found them again on an old CD. This is from Todai, Tokyo Univ. and this is the second time I meet sensei, the year before I did my shodan shinsa for him. At the time I was young and hansom, now I am only ha...

One of my students just got back from a weekend seminar headed by Takamsa Arakawa. He had a very good time and say that Takamasa Arakawa is a relly nice guy as well, just some minor problems whit transaltion and English this time. He said it is always nice to have the oppertunity practise whit top, ...

At the test competitions I have been to, (French Open, Dutch Open) one of the points is to get back to more vigorous Karate. To allow more contact to the body but still be careful when it comes to the “front “ of the face. So I guess it will be ok. to make harder contact to the body in the new rules...

Just got back from EKF Senior Championships in Zurich, not many Wado Kata in this meet…. I wonder why? Also remember I was the referee in London -89 in the team final Italy – Japan if I remember correct, looong time ago. Do not forget Maeda sensei who can teach both Kumite and Kata in a excellent wa...

Hi This coming weekend my dojo will host a JKF Wadokai seminar in the Sweden, instructors are T.Maeda 7 dan and N.Nukina 5 dan. At this occasion we will also raise some money to send to the victims in Japan. Last time (one year ago) we had Maeda sensei in Sweden there was a volcano eruption on Icela...