Bob,

As I'm sure you've experienced in your travels, there are some pretty
decent Wado people around the world. I'm curious how you've arrived
at your ranking of "better than any Wado person I've ever met outside
of Japan." Your thoughts?

Best,
John Dodd

--- In wadokarate@yahoogroups.com, "bnashrei" <bnashrei@...> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > For no particular reason we don't interact with the Hamilton Wado
> Kai
> > club (Yoshin Wadokan), but we're very aware that they have some
> > international recognition via Robbie Smith.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Brian
>
> I don't get it. Why would you not interact with Robbie Smith? He
is
> better than any Wado person I've ever met outside of Japan. He's
> better than most of the Japanese instructors I've ever met and I've
> met a lot.
> I rarely meet Wado people who impress me and Robbie impresses me.
> It's just my opinion so take it for what it's worth. He also trains
a
> heck of a lot harder than most. I get tired just watching him.
>
> Bob
>