ZÁNKA 2006 Invitation to the 5th International Summer Course in Hungary The Hungarian Wadokai Federation invites you to participate on the 5th International...
Everyone, Just a little reminder that the camp is just a month away so I hope you've made your plans to attend this event! Don't miss this great opportunity to...
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ZÁNKA 2006 Invitation to the 5th International Summer Course in Hungary The Hungarian Wadokai Federation invites you to participate on the 5th International...
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Hi All, What supprizes me for a long time is that there are very little topics on kicking. Why is that? Maybe because Osensei didn't kick much of our syllabus...
Hello Arnold, The Kotenagedori and Hikiotoshidori from JKF-Wadokai Tantodori no Kata has a kick as part of the knife-defense. Your friend always, Ben ...
Hi Ben, thanks for the response. there is also in Kihon some kicks. but what I really meant was that we all know the depth of, for example, Junzuki or...
If I can come in here. Mawashigeri has perhaps been the best example of the moveable feast. Surely this rates as one of the most changed, adapted, modified of...
... IMO wado kicks just aren't as well developed as in other styles of MA such as Teakwondo or Muay Thai. Oops... Did I say that? Some wado masters have...
In any discussion on Wado kicking techniques I don't think having your foot in your own mouth is the place to start Igor. If you only have one front kick then...
Sensei Shiomitsu has a great book on kicking. It's called Dynamic Kicking Method. He has since developed a deeper kicking method and technique but there are...
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... Thanks for that info Reg. Thompson's was the first one I'd seen and I wasn't aware that this strategy had been around so long. Tim Shaw Essex UK ... This...
... Hi Reg, Glad to know you won't let me down... ;-) Here's an observation: Tkd defines considerably more kicks than wado does in its curriculum. Wado defines...
Always a pleasure Igor. Just for the record, wado doesn't usually define kicks , it is more usual in wado to only give a direction for the kick, for example:...
Hi Reg, ... Point taken... ... Frankly, I didn't think of wado geri names as merely being directions. Doesn't that imply that wado has only one type of kick...
I agree with Igor about biru ryu, finding palm beer to have a very direct kick to it, but mayde a basossa dourif would have the punch to counter it from Oz...
Hi Igor, just a point or two.. You say: Frankly, I didn't think of wado geri names as merely being directions. Doesn't that imply that wado has only one type...
... 'Beer is the thinking man's karate'? Or would that be: 'beer is the drinking man's karate'? Or 'karate is the thinking man's beer'? I'm beginning to wonder...
With all this talk about beer and not needing directions I would like to take this opportunity to provide for sale, 200 Compass Kebabs. Compass Kebabs (tm)...
... It is not uncommon in the UK to have dojos in Working Mens Clubs and such like, where on Sunday mornings you are training on the glass from last night's...
If you don't mind a few questions from someone without dan grading, ... tsukomi only by the ... Isn't the primary difference the distance, and the method of ...
... No. The primary difference isn't the distance. The primary difference is the way power is delivered. The distance follows from that. BTW: junzuki and...
Hi Arnold, There is a kind of 'guidebook' called 'Dynamic Kicking method' by Masafumi Shiomitsu, and in the preface H.Ohtsuka II mentions that kicks can be...
But Igor, if you examine your conclusion on Robert Persig and his 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' i.e. "it makes a lot of difference exactly where...
Hi Arnold, Having watched Suzuki Sensei, Shiomitsu Sensei and Iwasaki Sensei over the years, I believe there is a particular style of Wado kicking. The Wado...
Hi John, thnks for the info. About the jodan kicks that I have heard to. Actually if you look at our kata and kihon there are no high kicks at all. Some Sanbon...
