Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to the forum, but have been avidly reading the fantastic insights, cerebral debates and heated arguments that are emblazoned across...
Hi Melrose Thanks a lot , this is really a great effort and proof of love you have for wado ryu. Nice and congratuations for achievements. Best regards...
I believe that I can solve the Kata Gata issue. In the Japanese Language the K is conjugated to G when combined for a single concept. That is why there is...
Hi Melrose Good to hear you are still globe-trotting! If you ever make it back to Taunton we'll have to see about that shodan! David Luddington ... From:...
Hi Melrose, Mark Tiernan runs the San no Ya branch in Brisbane: www.brisbanewado.websyte.com.au He has been with San no Ya for 30 years, during this time He...
... Hello, For clarification....... The kata I demonstrated in Taunton were from the SYR kuzushi no kata. As far as I know Ohtsuka never performed them in...
Something that really gets to me is the small minority of clubs that charge its students through the nose for every small things from non refundable monthy...
We have suggested donations at our club, £4.50 Adult, £3.00 junior, but everyone is free to put in the tin any amount they would like. (We won't be watching)...
Peter
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Apr 3, 2009 3:04 pm
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... My own club charges £2 per adult and £1.50 per child, this usually covers the school hall rent , but in the past my sensei has been known to pay the...
Hi, I get so many emails from the majority of my list asking me to show them triangle techniques that don't require any flexibility and that an average normal...
Hi, everybody. I have always been amazed about how here in the US all Karate dojos target young potential students telling how great karate is in building self...
Hi Maicon I think we have been down this road before. I believe this technique is not viewed as two separate punches but a double punch and as such the stance...
Hi Maicon I have always seen this as a change to gyakazuki stance on the second punch. The reason for this is that unless the hips are opened up by the slight...
... Hi, Personally I have always been taught to change from junzuki position to gyakuzuki position, with the appropriate change in foot position. I have never ...
... Hi Reg, Oops trumped by the man himself. But, you know as well as I do that there are a lot of things in that piece of film that he doesn't do (and that he...
Hi Maicon Going by Shingo Oghamis' book on wado kata. They are two seperate moves one Jun Zuki in Jun Zuki stance and one Gyaku Zuki in Gyaku Zuki stance....
... Hi Maicon Going by Shingo Ohgamis' book on Wado Kata. They are two moves and should be performed as such i.e jun Zuki in jun Zuki stance and Gyaku Zuki in...
My apologies to Arnold and Tim (and others) for not responding to their answers. I needed time out to refocus on training here at home, toddle off to the US...
More puzzled than ever now. I have it written down from a training session I did with him at the Sobell Centre in 1984. Funny, just watching that, on the...
Hi, Â As said before that Ohgami sensei's book that Wadokai standarized it to Gyaku zuki dachi. I checked also in Ohtsuka sensei's book and he writes as he...
I saw that as well. Maybe it is a case of desired body movement / position driving the foot movement - the cutting in of the hip at the gyakuzuki point? Gary ...
Jaron, I've never done it that way. This is Pinan so I guess for beginners it is ok to go from junzuki to gyakuzuki dachi and sometimes I teach beginners to do...
You got me thinking now. This isn't a wadoryu vs wadokai thing. This is advanced vs wherever you happen to be in your path kind of thing. That is what makes...
This is what happens when I work too many long hours in a row and I don't write down well thought out responses. First of all I have no business trying to...
Hello, My Friends... Thank you very much for all those explanations... I understand that the right stance is that is natural for my body... My Sensei, Jose...
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