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by oneya
Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:10 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Fudoshin Fudomyoo Fudodachi Fudosan
Replies: 6
Views: 10202

Re: Fudoshin Fudomyoo Fudodachi Fudosan

Quote Originally Posted by Dan Harden Kwabe's breath work and "stake standing," Tokimune's breathwork, and solo drills, Sagawa's exercises, Okomotos push hand drill, Horikawas breath work, share much in common with Sho-Sho ryu's breathwork conditioning for atemi, the esoteric training off...
by oneya
Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:46 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Alan Whicker vintage karate
Replies: 2
Views: 9894

Re: Alan Whicker vintage karate

Looks like Nakayama Masatoshi doing the sensei thing and Nishiyama Hidetaka sparring on the right. I wouldn't bet money on it but could be Kanazawa Hirokazu on the left. Nice find Gordon, that's a heavy duty dojo.

Oneya
by oneya
Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:55 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Gary's lone wolf howlin'
Replies: 7
Views: 12164

Re: Gary's lone wolf howlin'

Ah no worries Gary, I've been pottering along this yellow brick road for a while now but still find some of the sights a bit bizarre. I went googling for a specific date and stumbled across a pothole in the search and found a couple of guys agreeing to defy Japanese domestic logic with some ersatz b...
by oneya
Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:28 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Shiomitsu Sensei visited the Winter Course
Replies: 6
Views: 10863

Re: Shiomitsu Sensei visited the Winter Course

A friend of mine named Brad who started Wado ryu with me in 1965 was graded 5th Dan at this Winter course. Don'cha just love this wado ryu thing we have..??

oneya
by oneya
Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:04 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Gary's lone wolf howlin'
Replies: 7
Views: 12164

Re: Gary's lone wolf howlin'

. Ah yes Ben, once the money trail was identified in the early days the splintering began to such a degree that in many cases today their wado just ain’t wado. Just a generic type of shiai karate. I have heard that some Wado organisations have dropped the practice of kihon kumite altogether - beats ...
by oneya
Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:39 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Gary's lone wolf howlin'
Replies: 7
Views: 12164

Gary's lone wolf howlin'

. Hi Gary, I am just venting here having spent a hour growing ever more despairing with the human race while reading the nonsense that is “Wado has no bunkai’ on iain Abernethy’s site of a year or two ago. What is nonsensical about it is these people commenting are not practicing Wado ryu and yet th...
by oneya
Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:16 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Hironori (Jiro) Ohtsuka
Replies: 3
Views: 8177

Re: Hironori (Jiro) Ohtsuka

On behalf of San no Ya I would like to express our most profound condolences to the Otsuka family and the Wado ryu Renmei members worldwide at their tragic loss. My brothers and I are deeply saddened.

Regrets.

Oneya
by oneya
Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:21 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Arakawa Sensei
Replies: 4
Views: 10346

Re: Arakawa Sensei

Vale: Arakawa Toru Sensei. 7th Dan Wadokai. Once again we are saddened standing here on the shoreline of wado history, watching the strength in the tides and currents of Wado fortune gradually ebb away with each passing of its iconic sensei. Arakawa Toru was such an icon and sensei. He was a fount o...
by oneya
Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:21 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Analyze this... Intent
Replies: 10
Views: 14976

Re: Analyze this... Intent

We are a walking talking fugu at full expansion.
This should be compulsory dojo speak.

oneya
by oneya
Thu Feb 12, 2015 12:45 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Analyze this... Intent
Replies: 10
Views: 14976

Re: Analyze this... Intent

Speaking of intent, I am cutting and pasting a post I made on my private site. I did not write the article. I wish I had because it is good. Intent is a prerequisite for internal power. Without intent you have nothing. Nothing. A lot of people misunderstand intent. They think of 'intention'. It is ...