All Wado Karate Forum

Craven wrote:Shep,

Never seen parents fighting eh? That’s because you’re in lovely Shropshire, try Halifax in West Yorkshire. It’s a great place to practice your Tanto Dori skills!

Hi Craven

Im in Shropshire now but grew up and originally learnt my craft in Lewisham so am well use to tanto dori! ;-)

shep

Parents can be a funny lot cant they. This didn't happen to me but to my sensei - it was only a few weeks ago it happened. We had a young lad in the 'little kickers' class and his mum would come and watch him throughout the lesson but the problem was that she also brought her other son along who was...

How many of you have been caught out in the workplace washroom going through some particular move from kata or kumite? Tim I work with a small team who are well use to seeing me practice the odd move from kata and kumite. I work on a large piece of machinery and to me parts of it are as good as a w...

I was being nice, I didnt swear once :-)

shep

Hi JTR Welcome to the forum. I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of the Shintani group is based solely on what I have seen on Youtube. I dont just see bad wado (or indeed no wado technique), I see bad karate technique in its entireity. I'm sure there are some in the group who are very cap...

I certainly understand where your coming from regarding the static nature of the exercise. I just found it interesting the similarities and yet we are almost worlds apart in our respective approaches. But that said narrowing it down to just the pushing hands part I found interesting and to a certain...

At our dojo we get together once in a while with a neighbouring Goju Ryu club for a little x training. I always find it beneficial and educational as well as fun to try something new. One of the exercises we have practiced a little is Kakie or pushing hands, where we try and feel the opponents moves...

Thanks wadoka/Kate. I dont know what you both did but its working fine now

shep

Here's an article relating to one of the names Bob mentioned, Shoji Nishimura of USA Renmei group

http://www.usawadoryu.com/Images/Senseinishimura.pdf

shep

Thanks for the Kendo link Tim, I hadn't seen that before, it was fascinating

shep