All Wado Karate Forum

karateman7 wrote:Hi AJ,

The listing of many different high level instructors seems to be a fairly common practice in America. I don't like it. I've visited some website where the instructor listed a teacher he's trained with once and made it seem as if it were a lifelong teaching lesson.

I will eventually visit the dojo, so I will see.

Thanks,

KM7

Hi KM7,

thats exactly what I mean.. Good luck.

AJ

For anyone else reading, this is my other alternative...

I'd say stick to wado...

AJ

WadoAJ wrote:I'd say stick to wado...

AJ

I'm praying to my dear lord Zeus that Mr. Hart's class works out.

karateman7 wrote:

WadoAJ wrote:I'd say stick to wado...

AJ

I'm praying to my dear lord Zeus that Mr. Hart's class works out.

haha I can imagine..

AJ

Reading the Wado groups web page, looks like you'd also be able to learn some Iaido (Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu) -if that floats your boat.

Proof is on the floor though.

Gary

James Coleman is in Washington; he's a member of Wado-ryu Bushinkai, Sensei Sakura's organization. He's not on here (I think), but his facebook page is: http://facebook.com/james.s.coleman2. If you don't hVE n account, just pm me and I'll send his email.

thanks Tesshu, I'll take that into consideration.

I'm not in quite the same situation but I am moving from Goju Ryu to Wado. Initially I wanted to migrate to Wing Chun and while I found it interesting, I missed the feel of karate. I left the last school as it became abundantly clear that they were more interested in promotion and merchandising than actually teaching their students. Pity because I made some good friends there. However, I also found aspects of the style not quite to my liking and think Wado will be a better fit. It looks like it fuses a few ideologies that make sense. While many schools market themselves as teaching realistic self defense, I don't know whether their styles could actually be effective in real life. Wado with its grappling and locks as well as atemi looks more like a complete package. I did do Jujitsu in addition to Goju but they were exclusive and not integrated together.

Anyhow, looking forward to studying this style. I'd be studying under Sensei Akira Onoda. Anyone heard of him? I'm in Toronto Ontario BTW.

majin29 wrote:I'm not in quite the same situation but I am moving from Goju Ryu to Wado. Initially I wanted to migrate to Wing Chun and while I found it interesting, I missed the feel of karate. I left the last school as it became abundantly clear that they were more interested in promotion and merchandising than actually teaching their students. Pity because I made some good friends there. However, I also found aspects of the style not quite to my liking and think Wado will be a better fit. It looks like it fuses a few ideologies that make sense. While many schools market themselves as teaching realistic self defense, I don't know whether their styles could actually be effective in real life. Wado with its grappling and locks as well as atemi looks more like a complete package. I did do Jujitsu in addition to Goju but they were exclusive and not integrated together.

Anyhow, looking forward to studying this style. I'd be studying under Sensei Akira Onoda. Anyone heard of him? I'm in Toronto Ontario BTW.

Hi Majin29,

While I am not familiar with the instructor you mentioned, you could do worse then to check out the C.W.F.K.

There web link is http://www.wadoryu.ca/

Cheers,

Chris