wado_lee

midlands uk

Monkeymagic thanks for the invite i choose karate because originally in the mid 70's as a 7yr old my father took me it could have been train spotting so i count myself lucky no seriously i feel karate as suited me all these yrs i now train jujitsu too but class my roots in wado one thing i have never done is rubbished any martial art each has somthing in there to take somthing from and i respect anybody who does any MA my children now train regular so the cycle goes on ps thanks dad for not taking me to train spotting

click on quote top right hand side of comment you wish to quote on

can i answer that one im very lucky i dont pay to train or gradings past shodan we are very lucky to have a long standing club of over 30yrs so dan grades who help with instruction go free kyu grades pay £4.00 for there three hour instrustion and juniors £3.00 gradings are £10.00 upto 2nd kyu £20.00 there after

Rich_2k3 i agree can i ask you to read comments on page 2 and 3 of this forum to see where my thoughts have moved on from

we do spars in our dojo at least twice a week i am not knocking sparring i enjoy it but its not important when it comes to the crunch to score a ippone nihone or sanbone is irrelevant when youve got some gorrilla in front trying to take your head off if are we talking about experience on a competition stage then i agree the more you do the more experienced you'll become but it does not make you a good martial artist if it were that easy we could all be shodan in a matter of months and the over thirties wouldnt have a chance the reason for my comments earlier were in answer to another made to saying unless you sparred you had no timing and i totally dis-agreed sparring is exactly that sparring

sorry guys i cant understand your comments tell the old japanese sensei they have no timing ive read plenty of comments saying many dont believe in sparring as you can tend to leave techniques short due to the control required im not saying sparring is useless but its not the be all and end all of MA

agreed!!

i enjoy breakfalling now since ive been doing jujitsu i never thought i could fall so hard without the pain its great!!!

im sorry i dis-agree and without asking i think 90% of Martial Artists would too are we all missing the point here or is everthing we practice without hitting somthing a waste of time like lets say shadow boxing form moves bo kata weapons training (do we need to kill to see if it works) khion need i carry on i believe in muscle memory keep doing somthing enough times and it all helps you dont need to hit somthing to know if it hurts

pinan nidan followed by pinan shodan like most wado kai i think

the beginning loks very much like Seipai and the rest looks nothin like the version of Suparinpei i have learnt

dont worry to much and take your time there's remember you dont need full box splits to kick jodan

if you cant perform it go through it mentally over and over i do it all the time it doesnt take place of training but it will help

ive also trained with someone in a wheelchair MA is for everyone