Links
Here you will find links to other karate
clubs, associations and useful
martial arts websites, as well as some suggested books
to read.
If you have a suggestion of a link please contact the webmaster
at [email protected]
Other England
Wado Kai Association Clubs
A full list of clubs is available on the EWKR Association Website below is a small selection.
Thatcham Wado Kai Karate Club
http://www.thatchamkarate.org/
Local club to Reading.
Walton Wado Karate Club
http://www.wado-kai-karate.co.uk/
Great site with kata videos available to download.
Aldershot Karate Club
www.aldershotkarate.org.uk
Camberley Karate Club
www.camberleykarate.org.uk
Farnham Karate Club
www.farnhamkarate.org.uk
Guildford Karate Club
www.guildfordkarate.org.uk
Crowthorne Karate Club
www.crowthornekarate.org.uk
Association
Links
England Wado Kai
http://www.englandwadokai.org/
Karate England
http://www.karateengland.org.uk/
Federation of Wado Kai Europe
http://www.wadokai.eu/
W.K.F. World Karate federation
http://www.wkf.net/
Contains useful links to rules of karate competition
S.K.W Swedish Karate Wado Kai
http://www.wadokai.se/skw/
Sensei Shingo Ohgami
JFK Wado Kai Japan
http://www.karatedo.co.jp/wado/w_eng/e_index.htm
Scottish Karate-Do Federation - Wado-Kai Karate
http://www.skfscotland.co.uk/
Canadian Wado kai
http://www.canadajkfwadokai.org/home.php
New Zealand Wado Kai
http://www.wadokai.co.nz/
Useful
Martial Arts Links
Fighting Arts
http://www.fightingarts.com/
FightingArts.Com is a cyber community and network of traditional
martial artists, historians, and writers dedicated to the promotion
and understanding of their arts through the medium of the Internet.
Japanese<->English Dictionary
http://www.rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
Japanese Martial Arts Glossary
http://www.aoinagi.org/glossary/agloss_view_tree.htm
Japanese Dictionary
http://home.comcast.net/~aikibudokai/jiten.html
Wado Stances
http://www.sleuteltotinzicht.nl/wa_standen.htm
Wado Videos on YouTube. Katas
Kihons
Kumite
etc
http://www.youtube.com
Telford WadoRyu Club
http://www.telfordwado-ryukarateclub.co.uk/
Good section on Ohyo and Kihons
Wado World
http://www.wadoworld.com/index.html
Wado information site
All Karate Forum
http://www.all-karate.com/forums/index.php?showforum=5
Although this site is not open for registrations, there is a wealth of Wado Knowledge for 'lurkers'.
All Wado Forum
http://www.allwado.com/
A very good Wado forum
Wado Ryu Ishikawa Karate
http://www.ishikawa-karate.com/
Website of AJ van Dijk, Wadoryu Ishikawa Karate Dojo, Netherlands. This website has a wealth of technical and theoretical information and is well worth studying.
Haslemere, Godalming, Basingstoke, Odiham, Farnborough,
Frensham (School Club) and Midhurst (School Club)
http://premierkaratedowadokai.com/
Premier Karate-Do Wado-Kai is an amalgamation of several karate
clubs covering the Basingstoke, Odiham, Farnborough, Haslemere
and Godalming areas.
Recommended
Reading
Below are some books that have been recomended by our
instructors and members. If you would like to suggest a book
please contact
us with the title, author and a brief reason why you would
recomend it.
 Wado Journal
Wado Journal was published from 2000 - 2003, a total of six issues in all. Although the print run was rather small, it was distributed to readers from all over the world. Issue #1 is completely sold out now but originals of issues 2 - 6 are still available.
 A summary of their contents is given on the link above. As well as the articles and interviews there are many photographs including early and rare pictures of Hironori Otsuka from Japanese sources.
Recommended by: Rob
SKW Grading Syllabus
An essential booklet for all those
training under England Wado Kai. Contains all the grading details
from 8th to 1st Kyu and lots of other useful information.
The 2011 edition includes details for Ohyo Kumite and Kihon Gumite techniques.
Recommended by: Sensei
Wilkinson
Karate Katas of Wadoryu by Shingo Ohgami
This covers the five Pinan Katas,
along with Kushanku, Naifanchi, Seishan, and Chinto, and explains
in detail the required stances, moves and some applications.
Recommended by: Rob
Introduction to Karate by Shingo Ohgami
This is a good book for all Karate
beginners and as a reference book for the more experienced. The
book covers the history of Karate, warming up, stretching, stances,
striking, kicking, blocking, in fact everything except for Kata,
which is covered by the book above.
Recommended by: Rob
Sport
Stretch: 311 Stretches for 41 Sports by Michael J. Alter
This book on stretching is very
useful to those who do martial arts. The 311 stretches cover just
about everything, but its the theories behind stretching and flexibility
that are partucluarly useful. The book gives you an insight into
how to increase your flexibility, which is central to martial
artists who want to kick with perfection. It also outlines the
benefits of flexibility, which are increased power and speed.
Recommended by: Rob
 Angry
White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger
This book is the story of a poet
from Oxford Univertity living in Japan who has just realised that
at 30 he wasn't fit and he wasn't brave.
Not knowing his fist from his elbow he
joins the Yoshinkan
Aikido Hombu Dojo and enrols on their year-long, brutally
demanding Senshusei
course of budo training - specially designed for the Tokyo
Riot Police.
This book is the fascinating account of his journey from White
to Black belt and is a fantastic read (especially before a grading!).
The book is also a brilliant and captivating insight into the
bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.
Recommended by: Rob
 Wadoryu
Karatedo by
Roberto Danubio
In this Wado Ryu Karate manual
you will find a unique and comprehensive collection of all
the techniques, Katas and partner exercises of Wado Ryu Karate.
With 352 pages and over 1400 color photos,
this book is the a complete and comprehensive reference
manual on the techniques of Wado Karate.
Sensei Wilkinson has reccomended this
new publication, as
there are so few quality books on Wado Karate available and he
hopes this will address the imbalance.
Recommended by: Sensei
Wilkinson & Rob
 Conversations with karate masters by Clive Layton
This book contains interviews and conversations with many of karate's great modern masters from the five predominant karate styles:
- Mitsusuku Harada (Shotokai)
- Masafumi Shiomitsu (Wado-Ryu)
- Keinosuke Enoeda (Shotokan)
- Stephen Arneil (Kyokushinkai)
- Morio Higaonna (Guju-Ryu).
Interspersed with plenty of black & white pictures, this book is a great read for anyone interested in karate regardless of the style you practice.
Recommended by: Rob
 Kata The Folk Dances of Shotokan by Rob Redmond
The contents of the book are quite a few chapters which follow
Karate kata development from China to Okinawa, and then from
Okinawa to Japan.
Kata of the major schools of thought are analyzed
for their differences, and conventional wisdom is challenged
as to how they evolved and why. Following are the twenty three
points for excellent kata performance.
The second part of the
book contains text descriptions of each of the kata with advice
on how to perform some of the more challenging movements better.
Although this is a Shotokan book by name, the history of the
Katas is relevant to all karate practitioners as is the reasoning
to why we do them.
Kata The Folk Dances of Shotokan is now available from the Author's
site FREE as a PDF file. If you enjoy it, a copy of the
hardback edition is available.
Recommended by: Rob
 Bunkai-Jutsu: The Practical Application of Karate Kata by Iain Abernethy
Bunkai-Jutsu is the analysis of the karate katas and their application
in real combat. It is also the title of this book
by Iain Abernethy.
Bunkai-Jutsu provides the reader
with the information they need to unlock the secrets of kata
and to begin practising karate as the complete and realistic
combat art that it was intended to be. This groundbreaking and
often controversial book provides a detailed analysis of the
combative concepts and principles upon which the katas are based.
Although strictly speaking we do not practice Bunkai in Wado, this book is nonetheless a very interesting read.
Recommended by: Rob
 Wado Ryu Karate: Hironori Otsuka
Written by the founder of Wado Ryu Karate, Hironori
Otsuka,
this book is an exact translation from the master's text, which
was written in 1977.
This is a book for serious Wado practitioners everywhere.
Recommended by: Rob
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