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Mar 1, 2003 7:11 pm
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http://www.irna.com/en/head/030225121636.ehe.shtml Iran wins England karate title Tehran, Feb 25, IRNA - All-star karate (wado ryu) team of Iran grabbed the...
Hey everybody, In my college searches on the internet I found a website that mentioned a Georgetown University Wado-Kai karate club (it was actually the club's...
Hi to evenyone, It has been a long while since posting; but I have been lurking in the background. I would like to ask any of the U.S. subscribers if they...
Tom Stevenson
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Mar 3, 2003 10:57 pm
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I will also be very interested in locating any Wado practitioners in Mississippi. I am in the Army, currently stationed in Korea, but I train with Dr. Tom...
shannon.crow@...
Mar 4, 2003 1:07 am
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It seems to me that karate organizations are seldom successful organizationally, and are often even more fraught with strife, internal tensions, shifting...
... I have experience with my own national (Dutch) federation. With all it's faults it is hardly a cult of an individual. Nevertheless it sucks anyway. I'd say...
Sally, What an interesting subject! I don't have much to contribute in direct response to your quetions, because I have never heard of a dojo built this way,...
... This 'perfect' situation sounds much like Wadokai-JKF in the early eighties. And then Otsuka clashed with the 'suits' in charge of every day business...
Therefore, there is no 'perfect' situation, eh Igor?! Good observation. It's also a "catch-22" in that if you have one person, who is responsible as the...
I trained for many years as a manager, Training officer and general leader type. Sometimes I get caught between the Budo ethic I have been taught and the...
I appreciate everyone's input...though I'm reluctant to forfeit my ideal karate organization (whether a dojo organization or something bigger) quite yet. What...
... I don't think it's fair to judge people by their criminal record. After all, people should have the chance to change their lives for the better. Some 12...
Igor, I said I was unlucky :-) Sally, I am way up there in an organisation which isn't my own, and I follow some of the old ways in teaching, expecting certain...
Sally, You're dojo sounds like a great place to train. We have a similar situation of sorts at my instructor's dojo. He is definitely the authority on ...
I would like to raise a question on teaching methods. In my experience, at the risk of sounding like Bruce Lee, you really do need to feel techniques in order...
I would like to raise a question on teaching methods. In my experience, at the risk of sounding like Bruce Lee, you really do need to feel techniques in order...
Brian, I have a theory which I put to my students often. Some of my lads have returned to Sunny Blackpool after getting degrees, and as a result I am teaching...
Thanks, yes any kind of close quarters sensitivity work helps develop awareness of techniques. With strikes I find that as part of the journey students focus...
Brian, the wife part was almost a joke, but she is a sports scientist, and has been an instructor in several sports as well as a PE lecturer. She speaks like I...
Hi Ryan I will be in Washington from 13th to 16th April and will be looking in at Georgetown University, I will ask about karate there and e-mail back the ...
Peter Morrison
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Mar 7, 2003 7:19 am
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Not sure if this message ever got posted last year when I origionally sent it, due to problems with the email, so here goes: Whilst it could be said that it...
... standard wado kata, I am interested to hear about any new kata that individuals have developed using the key wado principles.< ... his lessons learnt in...
... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAN I ASK WHAT YOUR PRINCIPLES ARE AS I HAVE SEEN MANY WADO STYLES AND I TEND TO GET...
Thanks for your contributions. An interesting point was raised regarding basic technique and combinations. I do have tended to use the origional BKA syllabus ...
Gone a bit quiet in the forum so let me ask these questions. Why do people teach? What is the motivator that drives us to get in the car and give up our time...
Hi Brian Fascinating isn't it? It's made you review the whole of your training and knowledge and try to bring it down to few principles. That huge mixture of ...
I am a Brown Belt. In my Brown Belt test, I had to demonstrate how I would teach certain moves. It's a responsibility that comes with the belt. Teaching...
I am intrigued by people who really, really, really, really, really want to teach karate. I have met people who know that they always wanted to teach karate,...
