As far as respect and humility, 1:25, I was taken as an intern student into a Dojo in NE Japan, where they kicked me in the balls for 6 weeks. They said it improves 'Ki', but I'm not totally sure if that's true. After that, they teach you how to block.
Wado Kai is bad ass. Seiji Nishamura is this style, its nothing but pure combat in its applications. Well, I mean all Karate is like that. But when you practice the style you see how much it relates to kumutie, its awesome.
ahahhahaah bullshit break with spacers and he only can break 3???? I can break six with spacers!!!! fake karate trick in breaking fake shit!!! and all that breathing and yelling! LOL
it´s not the style...it´s who is behind it. I know a shotokan guy who is powerful. I have also done Aikido and wado ryu. More internal, however its who you are... locks and throws aint soft.
someone once said to me,karate is karate. dont worry to much about style,its what ever works for you. im a 2nd dan in wado but love all styles,have you ever seen a kyokshin guy fight?they are nutters!(in a good way)
wado does however fit with a lot of modern self defence thinking like body evasion and striking from a relaxed position.
yeah im 1st dan taking second in about a year, you have to work hard at all martial arts no matter which one you do...and yes i have seen a kyokushin guy fight infact i had one fight me in italy....and yes they can pack a punch...but i luckily sweeped him and that was the end of that lol
you are on the right path karatekan, remember that becoming a black belt is the beginning of your jurney as a student not the end! If you can use techneiecs from other styles and make it work awsome. Wado is a philosophy not a style, soft to hard hard to soft. this can be applied to every move imaginable, you are on your way to becoming a dragon,
ive studied various styles of karate and different martial arts and i would say wado ryu and shukokai are the 2 best karate styles .. wado ryu with its mixture of jujitsu makes this a very effective form of self defence .. but not putting shotokan karate down but i found the shotokan style very open too attack and with its deep stances i found your far more open too attack easy
wado ruy is 1 of the bests martial arts can offer i used to do wado ruy and its true on tournaments this guys they really kickasses and really can break bricks stones and if a stone didnt break they save it untill the day they do break it. is not a good feelin to accept a punch or a kick from them. the training was hard and for a belt harder many students stuck on a belt for years as for graplin and floor wado ruy is born from jujitsu. master otsuka did a good job (mix jujitsu karate)
This is the style of karate my little boy has been doing for 5 months now & he loves it. He came 3rd in his 1st competition 2 weeks ago, I think all children should do it. I'm that proud of Billy-Joe I put part of his fight on here
I don't know why newer wado fighting looks like shotokan sport karate. I was never taught to jump around, and there is no reason why anyone else should be. It's a poor act of readiness.
In jujutsu and even karate kata there is no principle that teaches you to jump or hop.
It's really funny because they teach it so it's harder for your opponent to strike you. Moving targets are always going to be harder to hit, but the springsteppers build rhythms and actually become easier to expect. I have also known some that hop that could hand me my ass everytime. Some people can fight very well like that.
i did wado ryu as a kid and i loved it...but when i got into secondary school i fell out of it started smoking dope and fucking about-getting up at 7 on a saturday to do 4 hours down the village hall freezing floor wasnt appealing at that time lol.... my instructor always won when we went to tournaments...
Clifton elcock his name was from birmingham...his club was called Samurai karate club...
Sorry, bad wording. Flip the "effective". So a karateka should be an effective fighter.
I agree needless violence should be avoided at all cost, but when it does need to happen I would prefer a karateka who could kick some serious ass on my side.
Depending on who you talk to a Kyokushin practitioner could easily classify any non-full contact karate as something other than karate because it deviates from the spirit of martial arts. What I am showing you is that there are many takes of the same concept and that you cannot say something is "Less Karate" because they actually go full contact, especially when they still have a strong sense of the karate spirit and tradition.
That's okay. Just poor wording or I misread. However, doesn't being the most effective karateka also go hand in hand with the term fighter? And how better to train in karate than to pit yourself in matches against other skilled opponents? Kyokushin focuses on the hard contact sparring aspect simply because they feel that is the true spirit of karate and they are well known for their strength, toughness and skills in fighting. Yet they also hold on to the traditions of karate.
I find that a little odd. Have you ever been to a Kyokushin class or talked to a practitioner? They are very focused on tradition, have a deep understanding of kata and bunkai and are incredibly driven individuals. Are they simply not karate because they actually hit each other when they spar? That seems a very silly notion.
What is wrong with the full contact karate and Kyokushin? Other full contact karates: Enshin (American) Karate, Ashihara, Daido Juku. True, they're all branches of Kyokushin, but I've never heard of anyone else doing full contact.
some older shotokan did full contact for a while. but not many other styles do full contact for the sole reason that the concept of karate is not to fight off an opponent but to kill them before they kill you, light contact sparring is just something they do to show the skills they have and compare with other dojos
How does one train to kill before they kill you? Wouldn't going full contact (or as hard as is safely possible) be beneficial to such training? I don't see the difference between "fight off an opponent" and "kill an opponent".
make no mistake full contact is just as benifitial however not many parents will allow children to learn in a full contact invironment. the difference between fighting off an opponent and killing one is as simple as the difference between a reverse punch to the solar plexus and a palm strike shoving someones nose into their skull.
Reign0000, your last statement is a mistake. There has been an incident during a karatematch in Japan decades ago where somebody was killed by gyakuzuki chudan... Any punch can kill a man. I guess fight off might be proportional violence, unstead of killing.
but, to practise fullcontact has nothing to do with those concepts. Its rather a choice of the dojo's sensei.
i know that a gyakuzuki chudan can kill someone,however decades ago there was no sparring gear. thats why most all sparring matches padded gloves are required now. i was just using it as an example
How much does this thing cost? it seems like a Martial Arts Better Than A Heavy Bag Im going to get one to train my kung fu at home I want to show you this style of training to you, just do a search for the martialarm in youtube or google.
I have my point of view, you have your...No problem at all...
But I think that a mark on a gi doesn't teach you karate...
The guy defending from the mawashigeri have a long, short shotokan position, the foot touch the ground, like shotokan, the guard is high and the fist are opened. His chest is not balanced with the body, he wears a shirt under the gi, he's looking to the opponent attack instead of his body, he crouch (i suppose) after an attack, and remained still without do nothing,
Oh! dojo135, I just noticed you're under Suzuki, no wonder you resent this video. He is great but he disagreed with the decision to appoint Otsuka Jiro as grand master. Thus you wouldn't like this video even if it weren't cheesy.
As a current student of Sensei Suzuki please note that sensei Suzuki didn't disagree with the decision to appoint Jiro as grand master and actually stayed with him to bring him up to the required standard when the old man died. I have heard the story first hand from Sensei Suzuki about the death of Otsuka and it isn't as you belive.
I agree that the American take on martial arts is crap, but Shiomitsu sensei told me largely the same story, albeit without the cheesy music and brick-breaking, and with a lot more practical stuff along the way. By the way, a true karateka would not be so full of themselves as to keep making these snotty posts on all karate vids.
Nice vid, but a few historical inaccuracies. Ohtsuka Sensei was never the head of the Shindo Yoshin Ryu in Japan. Although he trained with Funakoshi he had left before the style of Shotokan was named. More accurate to say Wado is a blend of Shindo Yoshin Ryu, and Shorin-Ryu Karate.
Regarding Mr. Ohtsuka's position in Shindo Yoshin-Ryu Jujutsu: our source is his own book "Karate", Volume 2, page 9 which refers twice to the fact the he became master (which we take to mean "head") of the system (after Nakayama). Regarding Mr. Ivan's mention that Wado is a cross between jujutsu and "Funakoshi's Shotokan karate": it may be more factual to say that Wado is a cross between jujutsu and "Funakoshi's karate, which later came to be officially known as Shotokan". Continued on 2nd post
We believe Mr. Ivan's reference serves to illustrate that most modern Karate practitioners would recognize Wado as being derived from Shotokan. On the other hand, we feel that to call Wado a "blend of Shindo Yoshin-Ryu and Shorin Ryu" would be misleading, since the dissimilarities are substantial. Funakoshi, in his books, referred to what he taught as "Okinawan Kempo: Karate."
@twarren208 funakoshi's karate wdid not just become known as Shotokan, it underwent changes, like deeper stances and larger movements (o waza)
I you look at Funakoshi's stances in Karate Jutsu "the original teachings of master Funakoshi" you see the old Okinawan stances and also the old Kata names are in there
I tend to say Wado is a combination of SYR and the Okinawan Karate of Funakoshi
This video was taken from the Wado Ryu instrcutional tapes that Black Belt Magazine had asked Senseis Marlon Moore and Ray Hughes (both have trained with Ohtsuka Sensei) to make. This is the intro from Volume 1, slightly edited.
As far as respect and humility, 1:25, I was taken as an intern student into a Dojo in NE Japan, where they kicked me in the balls for 6 weeks. They said it improves 'Ki', but I'm not totally sure if that's true. After that, they teach you how to block.
VisioninScience 8 months ago
Van Damme is the only man who can perform the 'Dim Mak', 2:21, this is clearly staged.
VisioninScience 8 months ago
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chrisbx1975x 8 months ago
Wado Kai is bad ass. Seiji Nishamura is this style, its nothing but pure combat in its applications. Well, I mean all Karate is like that. But when you practice the style you see how much it relates to kumutie, its awesome.
shotojojo1986 1 year ago
ahahhahaah bullshit break with spacers and he only can break 3???? I can break six with spacers!!!! fake karate trick in breaking fake shit!!! and all that breathing and yelling! LOL
takeshimiyagi 2 years ago
Well good for you takeshimiyagi you must be really good. I'm so impressed with your ability - pity about your attitude.
jimbozy 2 years ago
Theres my daddy :)
stenskallberg 2 years ago
it´s not the style...it´s who is behind it. I know a shotokan guy who is powerful. I have also done Aikido and wado ryu. More internal, however its who you are... locks and throws aint soft.
mad1966dog 2 years ago
Is wado ryu better than shotokan, kyokushin, kyokushin, and goju ryu?
Bjjownsu10 3 years ago
someone once said to me,karate is karate. dont worry to much about style,its what ever works for you. im a 2nd dan in wado but love all styles,have you ever seen a kyokshin guy fight?they are nutters!(in a good way)
wado does however fit with a lot of modern self defence thinking like body evasion and striking from a relaxed position.
zatoichi12345 3 years ago
So, the question is. Is wado ryu effective for real life situations?
Bjjownsu10 3 years ago
yeah im 1st dan taking second in about a year, you have to work hard at all martial arts no matter which one you do...and yes i have seen a kyokushin guy fight infact i had one fight me in italy....and yes they can pack a punch...but i luckily sweeped him and that was the end of that lol
binkme 2 years ago 4
you are on the right path karatekan, remember that becoming a black belt is the beginning of your jurney as a student not the end! If you can use techneiecs from other styles and make it work awsome. Wado is a philosophy not a style, soft to hard hard to soft. this can be applied to every move imaginable, you are on your way to becoming a dragon,
james shihon sensei
justaguy2001 2 years ago 2
ive studied various styles of karate and different martial arts and i would say wado ryu and shukokai are the 2 best karate styles .. wado ryu with its mixture of jujitsu makes this a very effective form of self defence .. but not putting shotokan karate down but i found the shotokan style very open too attack and with its deep stances i found your far more open too attack easy
gucci202 3 years ago
wado ruy is 1 of the bests martial arts can offer i used to do wado ruy and its true on tournaments this guys they really kickasses and really can break bricks stones and if a stone didnt break they save it untill the day they do break it. is not a good feelin to accept a punch or a kick from them. the training was hard and for a belt harder many students stuck on a belt for years as for graplin and floor wado ruy is born from jujitsu. master otsuka did a good job (mix jujitsu karate)
leonidasleo300 3 years ago
nice vid except for the silly brick breaking at the end
hwnknight740 3 years ago
This is the style of karate my little boy has been doing for 5 months now & he loves it. He came 3rd in his 1st competition 2 weeks ago, I think all children should do it. I'm that proud of Billy-Joe I put part of his fight on here
no1ginafitzgerald 3 years ago
I don't know why newer wado fighting looks like shotokan sport karate. I was never taught to jump around, and there is no reason why anyone else should be. It's a poor act of readiness.
In jujutsu and even karate kata there is no principle that teaches you to jump or hop.
CentredOne 3 years ago 2
It's really funny because they teach it so it's harder for your opponent to strike you. Moving targets are always going to be harder to hit, but the springsteppers build rhythms and actually become easier to expect. I have also known some that hop that could hand me my ass everytime. Some people can fight very well like that.
mouthofacowboy 3 years ago
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armageo 3 years ago
i doing karate wodo ryu
blossom4live 3 years ago
i did wado ryu as a kid and i loved it...but when i got into secondary school i fell out of it started smoking dope and fucking about-getting up at 7 on a saturday to do 4 hours down the village hall freezing floor wasnt appealing at that time lol.... my instructor always won when we went to tournaments...
Clifton elcock his name was from birmingham...his club was called Samurai karate club...
growguyuk 3 years ago
Hmm.. Does getting up at 7 on a saturday to do 4 hours down the village hall freezing floor sound appealing now? Because you could continue anyway.
Primeevil30 3 years ago
I saw the son of the creater :D
RabidBunnny 3 years ago
Sorry, bad wording. Flip the "effective". So a karateka should be an effective fighter.
I agree needless violence should be avoided at all cost, but when it does need to happen I would prefer a karateka who could kick some serious ass on my side.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
Agreed, and yes, that is what most Kyokushin fighters I know feel. And I am a Judoka myself so I personally find nothing wrong with the sport aspect.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
Depending on who you talk to a Kyokushin practitioner could easily classify any non-full contact karate as something other than karate because it deviates from the spirit of martial arts. What I am showing you is that there are many takes of the same concept and that you cannot say something is "Less Karate" because they actually go full contact, especially when they still have a strong sense of the karate spirit and tradition.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
That's okay. Just poor wording or I misread. However, doesn't being the most effective karateka also go hand in hand with the term fighter? And how better to train in karate than to pit yourself in matches against other skilled opponents? Kyokushin focuses on the hard contact sparring aspect simply because they feel that is the true spirit of karate and they are well known for their strength, toughness and skills in fighting. Yet they also hold on to the traditions of karate.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
I find that a little odd. Have you ever been to a Kyokushin class or talked to a practitioner? They are very focused on tradition, have a deep understanding of kata and bunkai and are incredibly driven individuals. Are they simply not karate because they actually hit each other when they spar? That seems a very silly notion.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
What is wrong with the full contact karate and Kyokushin? Other full contact karates: Enshin (American) Karate, Ashihara, Daido Juku. True, they're all branches of Kyokushin, but I've never heard of anyone else doing full contact.
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
some older shotokan did full contact for a while. but not many other styles do full contact for the sole reason that the concept of karate is not to fight off an opponent but to kill them before they kill you, light contact sparring is just something they do to show the skills they have and compare with other dojos
reign0000 3 years ago
How does one train to kill before they kill you? Wouldn't going full contact (or as hard as is safely possible) be beneficial to such training? I don't see the difference between "fight off an opponent" and "kill an opponent".
WorldWarCheese 3 years ago
make no mistake full contact is just as benifitial however not many parents will allow children to learn in a full contact invironment. the difference between fighting off an opponent and killing one is as simple as the difference between a reverse punch to the solar plexus and a palm strike shoving someones nose into their skull.
reign0000 3 years ago
Reign0000, your last statement is a mistake. There has been an incident during a karatematch in Japan decades ago where somebody was killed by gyakuzuki chudan... Any punch can kill a man. I guess fight off might be proportional violence, unstead of killing.
but, to practise fullcontact has nothing to do with those concepts. Its rather a choice of the dojo's sensei.
WadoAJ 3 years ago
i know that a gyakuzuki chudan can kill someone,however decades ago there was no sparring gear. thats why most all sparring matches padded gloves are required now. i was just using it as an example
however i do see your point
reign0000 3 years ago
IT DOSN"T MEAN THE WAY OF PEACE!
seanx23 3 years ago
wado Wa-meaning peace or harmony depending on how you use it. Do-meaning the way or path of...so what exactly are you getting at sean?
reign0000 3 years ago
How much does this thing cost? it seems like a Martial Arts Better Than A Heavy Bag Im going to get one to train my kung fu at home I want to show you this style of training to you, just do a search for the martialarm in youtube or google.
wayneg52h8e 3 years ago
I myself practise Wado-Ryu karate. Currently at Brown belt, going for Gold Tags in September.
And it does mean "Way of peace", we recently did a terminology test and that was on there, along with the meaning of Shindo-Kai, and Anshin.
=)
Sophie30751 3 years ago
I took Wado Kai and I remembered it translated to way of life, not peace. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I expect a responce from Japan.
sleepwalker29 4 years ago
its way of peace or harmony :)
Vileniuzzz 3 years ago
Is Wado Ryu still famous for its free fighting? In Japan does it rank well in the Full Contact Karate tournaments?
WorldWarCheese 4 years ago
at 1.44 it's shoto kan...not wado...
grifis986 4 years ago
It's not shotokan... these people just make big unnesesary movements but shotokan students don't wear the wado ryu logo
WadoSpits 4 years ago 2
yea grifis986.. and thats why they have the wado ryu mark on their clothes. -_-
Dont talk shit when u dont know what ur talking about :S
Koensol 2 years ago 2
I have my point of view, you have your...No problem at all...
But I think that a mark on a gi doesn't teach you karate...
The guy defending from the mawashigeri have a long, short shotokan position, the foot touch the ground, like shotokan, the guard is high and the fist are opened. His chest is not balanced with the body, he wears a shirt under the gi, he's looking to the opponent attack instead of his body, he crouch (i suppose) after an attack, and remained still without do nothing,
grifis986 2 years ago
he goes against sen-no sen, sen idea...
I know what I say...what about you?
grifis986 2 years ago
long and short.. aah now i get it.. (NOT!)
how can a stance be long and short at the same time?
Again ur talking shit.. hopeless person
Koensol 2 years ago
i'm not Englesh, I mistake the term. Is long and is "crouched" , "low".
grifis986 2 years ago
long in distance and short in stachure! james honshi godan sensei wado ryu
justaguy2001 2 years ago
awesome
FishTricks 4 years ago
Oh! dojo135, I just noticed you're under Suzuki, no wonder you resent this video. He is great but he disagreed with the decision to appoint Otsuka Jiro as grand master. Thus you wouldn't like this video even if it weren't cheesy.
ariana1984 4 years ago
As a current student of Sensei Suzuki please note that sensei Suzuki didn't disagree with the decision to appoint Jiro as grand master and actually stayed with him to bring him up to the required standard when the old man died. I have heard the story first hand from Sensei Suzuki about the death of Otsuka and it isn't as you belive.
captainkaratekid2 4 years ago
silly typical american view on wado karate.
dojo135 4 years ago 6
I agree that the American take on martial arts is crap, but Shiomitsu sensei told me largely the same story, albeit without the cheesy music and brick-breaking, and with a lot more practical stuff along the way. By the way, a true karateka would not be so full of themselves as to keep making these snotty posts on all karate vids.
ariana1984 4 years ago
@dojo135 And what is your view on wado ryu?
IceLanced 1 year ago
Nice vid, but a few historical inaccuracies. Ohtsuka Sensei was never the head of the Shindo Yoshin Ryu in Japan. Although he trained with Funakoshi he had left before the style of Shotokan was named. More accurate to say Wado is a blend of Shindo Yoshin Ryu, and Shorin-Ryu Karate.
Garywado 4 years ago 2
Regarding Mr. Ohtsuka's position in Shindo Yoshin-Ryu Jujutsu: our source is his own book "Karate", Volume 2, page 9 which refers twice to the fact the he became master (which we take to mean "head") of the system (after Nakayama). Regarding Mr. Ivan's mention that Wado is a cross between jujutsu and "Funakoshi's Shotokan karate": it may be more factual to say that Wado is a cross between jujutsu and "Funakoshi's karate, which later came to be officially known as Shotokan". Continued on 2nd post
twarren208 4 years ago
We believe Mr. Ivan's reference serves to illustrate that most modern Karate practitioners would recognize Wado as being derived from Shotokan. On the other hand, we feel that to call Wado a "blend of Shindo Yoshin-Ryu and Shorin Ryu" would be misleading, since the dissimilarities are substantial. Funakoshi, in his books, referred to what he taught as "Okinawan Kempo: Karate."
twarren208 4 years ago
@twarren208 funakoshi's karate wdid not just become known as Shotokan, it underwent changes, like deeper stances and larger movements (o waza)
I you look at Funakoshi's stances in Karate Jutsu "the original teachings of master Funakoshi" you see the old Okinawan stances and also the old Kata names are in there
I tend to say Wado is a combination of SYR and the Okinawan Karate of Funakoshi
Toudiyama 1 year ago
where did you get this edit? from a DVD?
WadoAJ 4 years ago
This video was taken from the Wado Ryu instrcutional tapes that Black Belt Magazine had asked Senseis Marlon Moore and Ray Hughes (both have trained with Ohtsuka Sensei) to make. This is the intro from Volume 1, slightly edited.
twarren208 4 years ago