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Hello,

I am new to the forum so I wanted to share a little about my martial arts career. My name is Joel Bain and I live the United States. I tried some other styles of karate and also a little judo before I found out about Wado-Ryu. I loved it from the start. Under the instruction of Sensei Joseph B. Rippy (6th Dan), I earned the rank of 1st Dan in 1988. For personal and career reasons, I stopped practicing karate for several years. Nagging injuries contributed to this as well. In the mid 90's I took up tai chi and continue to practice that on a regular basis. I am now practicing all my karate forms again, and am hoping to locate a sensei for private and/or group instruction. My efforts to locate Sensei Rippy have been unsuccessful. He was, without a doubt, the best instructor that I have ever had. The several posts about Wado-Ryu dvd's caught my attention. I am now looking to order these to help continue in my practice. It does not look like I am going to locate Mr. Rippy, but I am going to continue practicing in Wado-ryu again. I live in the Eastern part of Tennessee and there are no Wado-Ryu instructors that I know of in this area. There are many in West Tennessee. This may be where I will have to travel in order to receive further instruction. The dvd's will help though. Thanks to all of you for the posts about them.

Regards,
Joel
Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:29 pm

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Hello, I am new to the forum so I wanted to share a little about my martial arts career. My name is Joel Bain and I live the United States. I tried some other... 		P B
macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jun 28, 2009
7:39 pm

Joel, You can find Joe in Knoxville. E-mail is rippy@.... If I can be of further help. contact me. Mike ... From: P B To: wadokarate@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Vanatta's Institute o...
mhvwado
Offline Send Email 		Jun 29, 2009
10:04 pm

Mike, Thanks for the information. I will try the email and let you know. Joel ... From: Vanatta's Institute of Karate, Inc. <vanattaskarate@...> ...
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macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jun 30, 2009
4:52 pm

Mike, The icx email address for Joe appears to be invalid. Any help you can give me in helping to contact and/or locate him would be greatly appreciated. Joel ...
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macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jun 30, 2009
4:52 pm

Sorry Joel, I have not contacted Joe for quite a while and that was my last address for him. Mike ... From: P B To: wadokarate@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Vanatta's Institute o...
mhvwado
Offline Send Email 		Jun 30, 2009
6:04 pm

Joel try contacting Mr. John Patterson at the USEWF web site. Matt ... From: Vanatta's Institute of Karate, Inc. <vanattaskarate@...> Subject: Re:...
Matthew Lyons
rt_1967@...
Send Email 		Jul 1, 2009
10:46 pm

Thanks. I did that almost two months ago. Sensei Patterson got wind of my continued search and emailed me back. He forwarded my email to Mr. Rippy at that...
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macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jul 2, 2009
5:31 pm

Joel, Depending on where you are in east TN you may be able to get to some of the Wado people in middle TN. Mike Vannatta who answered you message below is a...
tenkhan1600
Offline Send Email 		Jul 3, 2009
3:31 pm

I agree that training on my own is not a good thing. It causes too many opportunities to develop bad habits without correction. As far as changing to another...
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macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jul 4, 2009
7:56 am

Joel, It would be quite a drive, but I am sure that Sensei Kirby in Portland, TN would welcome you to come train when you could. I am a shodan there. He is...
James Covey
mcrdpisc95
Offline Send Email 		Jul 4, 2009
6:14 pm

In that case you could try Donnie Danner. He is affiliated in some way with Bob Nash of this forum. I have not met Donnie, but if Bob will have him, then, as...
tenkhan1600
Offline Send Email 		Jul 4, 2009
9:18 pm

Donnie doesn't suck at all, on the opposite he is one of the finest instructors of Wado Gusekai, and a very nice guy, too. if I were in your shoes, i would...
claudio perissinotto
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Offline Send Email 		Jul 4, 2009
10:03 pm

All, I would third the call for Donnie Danner. I have know and trained with Donnie frequently for a lot of years. As Claudio said, very nicen but scary on the...
Jay Boatright
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Offline Send Email 		Jul 4, 2009
11:16 pm

Thanks. I will look him up. ... From: tenkhan1600 <rgoad@...> Subject: Re: [Wado Forum] Returning to Wado-Ryu after many years To:...
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macbayne
Offline Send Email 		Jul 5, 2009
9:42 am
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