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Hi majin, There are probably many that have been happy enough following the Shintani trail but fortunately it has not been the world wide phenomenon that the wado ryu, wado kai and wado kokusai currently enjoy as Wado Ryu representative bodies. The Shintani group - (as distinct from the JKF Wadokai...

......But i digress. Back to the original topic.... I have had the pleasure of x training in a little Goju every now and then. I like it. It is very different from wado especially the Go aspect as Gusei said. Bunkai is the be all and end all from what I can tell, they live eat and breath Bunkai. It...

claas wrote:
Also many things very much contradict with Wado.

May I be so bold as to ask you to elaborate? I really would love to know some of the things that define Wado from other karate styles.

Luckily the school in the video is NOT the one I'm going to be attending. it's in the UK and I'm on Ontario Canada. The link to the school I included in a subsequent post is where I'm going to go. Your'e referring to: http://www.mississaugakickboxing.com/ right? They refer to the Canadian Wadoryu K...

In the video what we see seems pretty good, but it is not Wado. To choose that kind of school would probably be to choose the instructor, instead of a style. In the case of this thread you choose them both. You choose the instructor who delivers the style you have chosen. The problem with these sch...

I was speaking to the mindset and subtleties that you won't see in video. Just because you see a punch and kick done by someone who calls themselves wado doesn't necessarily mean it's wado. The only reason I mentioned this was looking at the Otsuka meijin videos. There has to be so much stuff we're...

Not quite sure about the comment "if you see Wado than it probably isn't". I don't quite understand what that means. I think that a school must do what it can to differentiate itself from other styles. I know some dojos in my area advertise teaching traditional Okinawan karate which means ...

Ah sorry, I did not mean the youtube example - which in my opinion really doesn't show wado at all - I was inquiring about the second of the two dojo you mentioned here: "I found a dojo that teaches Wado Ryu fairly close by although I'm surprised that it is only 1 of 2 schools in the entire GT...

oneya wrote:Hi manjin,

What information do you have on the other wado dojo.?

oneya

This video is aspiring for any karateka no matter the style IMHO.

I'm not in quite the same situation but I am moving from Goju Ryu to Wado. Initially I wanted to migrate to Wing Chun and while I found it interesting, I missed the feel of karate. I left the last school as it became abundantly clear that they were more interested in promotion and merchandising than...