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Jamie Jewell is hosting Takagi Sensei in Southampton in September 15th 16th and he is having problems getting people to show up because senior Wadokai instructors in the area are telling their students to stay away. Pathetic. Why? Guessing but maybe they don't want their students to spend money on ...

Jamie Jewell is hosting Takagi Sensei in Southampton in September 15th 16th and he is having problems getting people to show up because senior Wadokai instructors in the area are telling their students to stay away. Pathetic. Why? Guessing but maybe they don't want their students to spend money on ...

For those of you who remember the American Sitcom ‘Soap’. “ This is the story of two organisations, the Wado Kai and the Wado Kai, Wado Kai Japan and Wado kai Europe….”.... “ Confused? You will be!” I am already. From my various Wado Kai contacts I pick up the periphery of the latest plot twists an...

Jamie Jewell is hosting Takagi Sensei in Southampton in September 15th 16th and he is having problems getting people to show up because senior Wadokai instructors in the area are telling their students to stay away. Pathetic. Why? Guessing but maybe they don't want their students to spend money on ...

This thread doesn't do justice to the subject title. There is a lot of misleading information too. Its a shame because a lot of people have and are, going to a lot of effort to host and support this event with Takagi and Kato. Lets clarify the JKF Wadokai members. There are about a dozen branches in...

[ Hi Ben, although they're not altogether very clear now but a quite a few of those faces are from the initial wado pioneers in Europe and the UK from 1965 onward and Suzuki's Pinan kata didn't change from then to the day he died. Other than Chinto which had its kokutsu-dachi difference at the begi...

Yes, I'm sorry: I should have posted that! Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_K5UhKGeY Hi Tak This film was made about 1964, just before Suzuki came to England. I don't know if it is possible to pin down a precise year for when the kata were standardised. From what I understand, most of ...

It appears that Ohtsuka Sensei met frequently with Mabuni Sensei after 1935; so 1936-40 sounds like the key period in the final draft rendering of the Wado katas. Konishi and Motobu were involved in the restructuring of Naifanchi, to be sure, but that was even earlier. Until at least 1932 the Funak...

We've touch on the arm leg relationship before. Did he switch back and forth over the years before concluding or just changed one time? Who knows. I suspect it is just a mistake, he corrects it with an extra step. Ohgami sensei explains about this in the article Seisan - Seishan. Funakoshi type sei...

Thanks for posting up the film. It is interesting to see a bit more of the tantodori and tachidori section.

Take another look at is his seishan at 3.58 sec onwards...

Ben