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by oneya
Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:59 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Curiouser & curiouser.
Replies: 10
Views: 13942

Re: Curiouser & curiouser.

I was at a Championship of the Asian Taekwondo Union in Melbourne, Australia in 1976 and it didn't look anything like this Bob. I watched the Korean team practice and they could have passed for any karate style with their hand techniques. Mind you, they didn't look anything like the Olympic version ...
by oneya
Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:46 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Curiouser & curiouser.
Replies: 10
Views: 13942

Curiouser & curiouser.

by oneya
Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:19 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Shiomitsu visited the Wado Academy summer course
Replies: 1
Views: 5004

Re: Shiomitsu visited the Wado Academy summer course

Wonderful news Gordon..

oneya.
by oneya
Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:54 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: The Paradox.
Replies: 8
Views: 10400

Re: The Paradox.

I think our original Wado kai (kyu do kan) dojo at the Dockland Settlement was the oldest dojo (late 1964) in Bristol at one time Tim but it may well be Dave's Mansfield WIKF dojo has the honour now. Bob Flowers has since converted an old church for his Sei Shin Kan Academy dojo and George Grimes wo...
by oneya
Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:32 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: The Paradox.
Replies: 8
Views: 10400

Re: The Paradox.

Sorry Tim, I was trying to grasp your meaning of studying the two cultures rather than being finicky. You could well be right but the two cultures with "traditions that have taken thousands of years to evolve" didn't match up with this little hamlet's history down-under where I live. I've ...
by oneya
Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:10 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: The Paradox.
Replies: 8
Views: 10400

Re: The Paradox.

I suspect that the only way to begin to get any kind of understanding is not just to take a deeper look at Japanese culture but to also examine our own culture. It’s a complex one because it’s all wrapped up in traditions that have taken thousands of years to evolve, and largely the two cultures in...
by oneya
Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:07 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: The Paradox.
Replies: 8
Views: 10400

The Paradox.

Lifted to this new thread from the "Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?" thread where Bob Nash noted: Powerful men have always wanted to rule, to control. And they used military might. Obviously Japan is not unique in this reqard. But the ethos, the psychology, the rationale, in that ...
by oneya
Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:39 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?
Replies: 17
Views: 19713

Re: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?

Thank you Reg and Bob for your insights. If I may ask, could you post what Mr. Otsuka's intentions and responsibilities were during the years before WW II and during WW II? I have read a little of what he did post WWII. I can't remember exactly where that was. I realize that strictly this is off to...
by oneya
Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:08 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?
Replies: 17
Views: 19713

Re: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?

Hi Bob, sorry for the confusion: So when you say the word “peace’ and 1935 in the same breathe I recall from history that peace back then meant Japan as the conqueror having vanquished all lands bringing Pax Nipponia to the rest of Asia. I was thinking maybe: with Nanking, Singapore, Burma and Pearl...
by oneya
Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:30 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?
Replies: 17
Views: 19713

Re: Can Kata from other systems be Wadoized?

but to add Annan to the Wado list....I don't get it. Because there is nothing for wado ryu to ‘get’ Bob. To my mind Ohtsuka meijin’s wado ryu has moved beyond the simple conundrum of self-defence into the cultural ethics of a society at large. Annan is an Okinawan type kata and that has to change i...