We are getting good progress.. Currently the amount of pages has been reduced to 538. We have been working on optimalizing the layout. I have added the complete table of contents, take a look here if you are interested!
makiwara training
Perhaps you have noticed that I have not uploaded anything to YouTube since March. I really did not have time due to i.e. the book and Adobe Premiere crashed.. Anyway, it works again so I decided to upload a piece on makiwara training. This video is captured at our dojo in Capelle a/d IJssel (near Rotterdam). Most other videos are shot in Gorinchem.
summercamp 2010 23-30 July 2010
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We have invited Nukina sensei again this year to teach at our summercamp. Nukina sensei was twice ALL Japan student KUMITE Champion in ’94 ’95.
who is Nukina sensei?
After spending 20 years of Wado Karate training in Japan, Nukina sensei moved to Romania .. Read more?
We (H. Ishikawa and I) are currently busy producing our book on Wadoryu. Previews are on the way, for now we agreed to update the page for kuzushi as it more or less will be presented in our book. Kuzushi is part of the introduction of our book.. Well, just click here for more details and the image below to enlarge..
camps 2010
discount!
Summercamp: 295 instead of 350 euro (offer till 25 January 2010) Wintercamp: 65 instead of 75 euro (offer stands in May 2010)
All details on these camps can be found at "summercamp"
kumite updates
In short, the following have been updated with descriptions of all techniques, none missing, new videos, images from Ohtsuka senseis 1939 tanto dori and screenshots from Ishikawa sensei's DVD. Sanbon chudan uke, jodan uke, maegeri uke, ohyo kumite, kihon kumite, tanto dori and idori. And, full SEISHAN kata by Ishikawa sensei from his last demonstration in Bulgaria 2007.
kihon kumite videos
Not really something new, but I have extracted perfomances of 2 demonstrations of kihon gumite (1984 and 2007) of Ishikawa sensei into seperate files. I thought perhaps that would be easier then looking them up over various files.
I uploaded Kihon kumite 1, 2, 4 and 5.
kata kaisetsu
The driving force to understand kata is Kaisetsu in Wado, which is the study of the principles of kata and are demonstrated with a partner with simple common sense for karate.
Pinan shodan, pinan nidan and yondan kaisetsu videos online!
pinan kata
Recent work of Pinan Nidan and Pinan Shodan. At our Wintercamp we organised competitions in the afternoon on saturday. More from a joke then seriousness I got up from my chair after some hours to 'show' pinan nidan. Not all that great, but for now..