I firmly believe that to learn to fight you must fight. So most of my basics are geared to fighting not the typical up and down movements you will see in most dojos. I use these for warm-up only and usually I dispense with this type of monotonous practice after about 15 minutes. Leo Lipinski …
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Apr 12 2023
Leo Lipinski
- Filed under Budo, General, Goju-ryu, Shukokai, Traditional
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April 12, 2023
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Apr 21 2021
Yoshinobu Ohta
- Filed under General, JKA, Shotokan, Traditional
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April 21, 2021
Once you start using age as an excuse then you never stop using this excuse. There is no excuse, you should just keep going. Of course, as we get older our body strength becomes weaker and so we automatically become slower with less power but most important is don’t make this an excuse, try to …
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Aug 15 2020
Doug James
- Filed under Competition, General, Wado-ryu
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August 15, 2020
I see kata as something for developing the individual and that if that person performs the moves in a certain way and is happy, providing it is within the overall guidelines of the kata I see nothing wrong with some deviation. Doug James Considered one of the cornerstones of British Karate, Doug James has been …
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Aug 14 2020
Molly Samuel
- Filed under Competition, General, Ishinryu, Kumite
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August 14, 2020
No conversation about top female Karate competitors would ever be complete without mentioning the name Molly Samuel. She is arguably Britain’s most successful female competitor, winning multiple European and World titles. She was Britain’s first individual female World Karate Federation (WKF) World Champion. Fighting at middleweight (-60-kg), she was a pioneer of women’s competitive Karate, …
- Chiara Stella Bux, Crisis, EKGB, International Sports Woman of the Year, Ishinryu, Jerry Leport, Jillian Toney, Karate England, Karate Sport England, Molly Samuel, Molly Samuel-Leport, Molly Samuels, Molly Samuels-Leport, Ritva Varelius, Sarah Bonnell, Stella Creasey, Ticky Donovan, Wayne Otto, Will Verner, Willie Thomas
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Aug 14 2020
Chris Thompson
I admired many aspects of all the Karate schools I trained with, but I felt that none could offer exactly what I was looking for. Unbeknown to me at the time I was following the step of Shu-ha-ri. Chris Thompson One of the highest-ranked Wado-ryu practitioners in the United Kingdom, Chris Thompson has trained with many of …
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Aug 13 2020
Vic Charles
- Filed under Competition, General, Kumite, Wado-ryu
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August 13, 2020
Vic Charles has been described as “the epitome of what a Karate competitor should be”. As a competitor, he was tough, resilient and technically proficient, in equal measures. Jerome Atkinson, a former world champion, described him as “the greatest competitor he had ever seen“. A winner of multiple World Championships, he was part of a …
- Brian Hooper, BSKA, Craig Burke, Des Drummond, Eddie Cuthbert, EKGB, Geoff Thompson, Jason Ledgister, Jerome Atkinson, Joanne Horne, Leon Waters, Liam Brennan, Molly Samuel, Pat McKay, Quest for Champions, Roy Daniels, Superstars, Tanya Wickes, Tatsuo Suzuki, Tery Daley, Ticky Donovan, UKKW, United Kingdom Karate-do Wadokai, Vic Charles, Wayne Otto and Ahbdu Shaher
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Aug 09 2020
Peter Spanton
I think it’s a shame that tournament seems to have taken over and we’ve lost a lot of our tradition. Peter Spanton A pioneer of British Wado-ryu Karate, Peter Spanton is one of the first generation of British karateka. He was one of the first Englishman to be graded to black belt in Wado-ryu by …
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