All Wado Karate Forum

Hi Mike When you say things are changing rapidly do you mean reverting back to mainstream Wado? shep Hello, Shep. No... There is no one in the organization that knows Wado. Not that I know of anyway. In the beginning Hirano taught Wado Ryu. He went to Hawaii to unite the dojos there. I think there ...

Hello, Ben Tsuchiya was an instructor at JIKC in Honolulu. I don't know if he was a partner. He was junior to Hirano I believe. I think he also did well in the collegiate all Japan competition. When Hirano died I know they were trying to locate Tsuchiya. I don't know if they ever found out where he ...

Hi Guys, You can read about Kiyohisa Hirano's history here: http://www.jikc-hq.org/history.html In 1960 it does state he won the kumite. The history makes no mention though of Wado or any reference to how he originally came to Hawaii with the Wado delegation as stated above.. I wonder why the disso...

Hi Mike

I guess I was limiting my comment to Europe. Hirano went to Hawaii. Did he place in one of the championships?

Hello, Ben.

I think Hirano won kumite in 1960. He may have been team captain in 1961. He went to live in Hawaii in 1962. I think Shiomitsu Sensei would know.

Mike

Fujii was actually the only member of the team who achieved that top position. Maeda Tadayuki was a runner up in the 1968 university championships and both Shiomitsu and Kitamura were member of the winning university teams (Nichidai and Nodai respectively) in their years, but were not individual al...

Today, 10 March in Asia, Champ online has the Arakawa/Shiramizu DVD listed. http://karate-dvd.sakura.ne.jp/index.ph ... cts_id=287

MSPain

Hello, All. The first video by Sensei Takamasa Arakawa and his group are due to be out in the middle of March. You can pre-order the videos from Champ Online. I believe they have a special price through the end of March. Go to http://karate-dvd.sakura.ne.jp/index.php?main_page=index , find the conta...