All Wado Karate Forum

oneya wrote:

wadoka wrote:This is a good interview by Graham Noble with the third Yamaguchi son, Goshi.

http://seinenkai.com/articles/noble/nob ... guchi.html

He mentions the college and Ohtsuka sensei briefly.

Ah thanks for that Gordon. I remember Goshi Yamaguchi, as an icon of Goju Ryu karate he was part of a special seminal moment along my wado ryu pathway and with apologies to those who have heard this story before. It was in 1988 when we – my brothers and I - as San no Ya were floor managers for WUKO World Championships in Sydney, During a quiet moment I found myself standing at a bank of three urinals with another icon of Shitoryu karate Fumio Demura on my left and Goshi Yamaguchi on my right. We stood there with our left hands deployed in the requisite kake uke as we exchanged pleasantries and for a moment I pondered nagasu as we released three pure streams of budo energy down the gurgler.

There was also a moment of epiphany as I realised that education was not the great solitary leveler of mankind that I had thought up to that point. It occurred to me then that human nature with its unrelenting requirement of obedience when considering the emissions of the human body can simultaneously drain the beauty and majesty from mankind and turn men into cattle. but this was not the moment of epiphany, it was not then, it was a moment later when I realised the a man could regain that beauty and majesty, he just had to remember to take his dick out of his hand first.

oneya