All Wado Karate Forum

Love these discussions: apply your intelligence to it, work out how, where and when you can apply it and chew it over, take your time; these things need fermentation time; you are not going to get the answers fed to you by a spoon (at least I hope not, that would be tragic). A rose by any other name...

Shodan is an artificial marker; it has been objectified for such a long time now that in some circles its meaning has become confused. Shodan is not a universal standard, it only has a value which is commensurate to the authority awarding it. For people who think it is a universal benchmark this I t...

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 and...

...... after almost forty five years of practicing karate virtually every day, I doubt I would change my opinion that Wado is essentially a school of karate do. Hi, hope you don't mind me chipping in, but my thought is that Wado Ryu has always sailed under the 'Karate-Do' flag of convenience. It is...

Tim wrote: Igor, I will be in Holland assisting on a course in September. At Martijn Schelen's place? I suppose? I'll try to make it, though I didn't see any announcement yet. Ironically, I'll be in the UK around that time, so I'm not sure if I can squeeze it into my schedule. But it would be great...

Ah, ‘bubble theory’. In lots of ways you are correct Bob. In organising courses I have always gone out of my way to make contacts and send out invites to all in my area, with some success but really some of those ‘bubbles’ have developed non-permeable membranes. I find this remarkable really, especi...

Hi there, I just found this amusing and had to share. This is not exclusive to Tai Chi. I see it alot in Wadoland. Q_ How many Taiji players does it take to change a lightbulb? A_ 31 One to change the bulb and 30 others to stand around saying "Well we do it differently in our school." Yes...

Hi TK, It is an interesting ingredient yes but given that Ohtsuka meijin's prior koryu experience and predicated aims of a new "Japanese" art form, wouldn't you suppose that almost a century of intervening years of the 'wado ryu' experience (with such experience being diametrically oppose...

Firstly, my apologies for not being on any of the Wado forums for quite a while. I hope those of you I know are well. Yesterday I was reading an interview with Sensei Y.Konishi, the son of the founder of Shindo Jinen Ryu. He talks quite a bit about his father's relationship with Ohtsuka Sensei duri...

T. Kimura wrote:Nobody has posted in six days, so I was wondering if I missed the rapture or something. Oh well, back to Jion.

Ah, don't worry, still here.

Tim Shaw
Essex UK