Hi,

> early in your Wado career to offer much constructive criticism to
> the art. Essentially it is not possible to teach everything at
> once, so whatever 'holes' you might see could simply be lessons to
> come.
I wasn't saying that I was aware of any 'holes' just that simply
EVERY martial art (including Wado) has holes.


> Finally, if one applies Tai Chi in the Wado class you are not
> practicing Wado
Sorry but I think that you misread my previous post - I DO wado at
the wado class - the story I told was what happened at a Ju-Jitsu
class when they did an exercise that was fundamentally similar to the
Tai Chi pushing hands exercise so I had an advantage, which since I
was wearing a white belt, confused the Black Belt I was training
with.

It is (I suggest) quite common with people in the martial arts to
think that belt rank equates to skill - this is sometimes the case
but not always :)

> However,I am saying that 'holes' in an art like
> Wado may have a purpose from an art perspective.
That's an interesting comment, would you care to expand and explain
what you mean? My definition of a 'hole' would be an aspect NOT
covered by an art - a simple example would be that traditional Wado
(certainly as taught in the UK) does not teach Firearms skills (I
mean USE of firearms) - That is NOT a critisism of Wado in any way
but does refer to a combat skill not in that particular art.

All the best.

Robert.
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Robert Agar-Hutton
www.p-k-j.org