All Wado Karate Forum

Good luck with blocking a low kick. Most kickboxers don't block it but are trained to endure it Yes that’s truth but in Wado we don’t have that kind of hard body training so that is out of question... Exactly because Wado has some great techniques to deal with it. But it involves taisabaki, not blo...

the low kick to me it seems quite harmless technique.. I trained a lot with kickboxers in my younger days. Their low kicks were about as harmless as the hoofs of a raging bull. One good kick on un untrained leg and you're done... Sorry for my bad English))) Low kick is very strong and painful kick....

Leg attacks happen in our Dojo. Leg attacks like sunegeri and sukuto fumikomi are part of many Wado syllabi, defences against low line kicks occur in Kihon Gumite. As low kicks I was mean that (please not focus on show just the move) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdxpG5ySo80 the simple fast and ...

The Shiramizu Karate Club in Saitama, Japan is now accepting applications from non-Japanese interested in its one-year karate internship position. Interns learn karate almost everyday while earning money part-time by teaching English to cover their daily expenses. This internship position is ideall...

It's very nice that after a legendary European team of Japanese masters of Wado , led by great Suzuki (Kono, Sakagami, Ichikawa, Sugasawa, etc.) now appear such instructors, as Nukina - a very good representative of the younger generation of Japanese wadoryu. I like Nukina. Especially because he tea...

blackcat wrote:Nice little group of films posted here showing a series of demonstrations by Iwaskai sensei (Ireland) and Sugasawa sensei (England):

http://www.youtube.com/user/martijnschelen?blend=6&ob=5

Ben

Thanks for posting.

Rest in peace, you were great man and great sensei.

I remember, Yanagita sensei has performed the same technique

Or like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBax7WnGPg

Came across this old set of demo's from UKKW days: http://www.japanartscentre.co.uk/karate_demos.html Link takes you to the page then look for the UKKW 1978 demo. The Suzuki / Sakagami / Sugasawa demo looks like what they used for the intro to the BBC series "Way of the Warrior". Great vi...