DEVELOPMENT OF WADOI KARATE:
WADO KARATE WAS DEVELOPED BY SAIKO SHIHAN (10TH DAN) HIRONORI OTSUKA AROUND 1939 IN JAPAN. ORIGINALLY, SENSEI OTSUKA WAS THE DESIGNATED GRAND MASTER OF SHINDO YOSHINRYU JUJUTSU. IN 1922 OTSUKA SENSEI MET SENSEI GICHIN FUNAKOSHI WHO WAS ORIGINALLY FROM OKINAWA. SHORTLY AFTER MEETING FUNIKOSHI, HIRONORI OTSUKA BEGAN TRAINING WITH GICHIN FUNIKOSHI IN THE SHOTOKAN KARATE STYLE.
IN 1930 OTSUKA SENSEI STOPPED TRAINING WITH FUNIKOSHI SENSEI AND BEGAN DEVELOPING HIS OWN STYLE OF KARATE WHICH EVENTUALLY WAS NAMED WADO RYU. WADO RYU AND WADO KAI ARE A BLEND OF SHOTOKAN KARATE AND SHINDO YOSHINRYU JUJUTSU. WADO LITERALLY IS DEFINED AS " THE WAY OF PEACE AND HARMONY".
GRAND MASTER MASURU SHINTANI WAS A CANADIAN OF JAPANESE DESCENT WHO BECAME OTSUKA SENSEI'S MAIN STUDENT IN NORTH AMERICA. OTSUKA SENSEI DESIGNATED MASTER SHINTANI (9TH DAN) AS THE SUPREME INSTRUCTOR OF NORTH AMERICA.
TODAY THE WADO KARATE ASSOCIATION OF CANADA IS ONE OF THE PREMIER KARATE ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA.
WADO KARATE WAS DEVELOPED BY SAIKO SHIHAN (10TH DAN) HIRONORI OTSUKA AROUND 1939 IN JAPAN. ORIGINALLY, SENSEI OTSUKA WAS THE DESIGNATED GRAND MASTER OF SHINDO YOSHINRYU JUJUTSU. IN 1922 OTSUKA SENSEI MET SENSEI GICHIN FUNAKOSHI WHO WAS ORIGINALLY FROM OKINAWA. SHORTLY AFTER MEETING FUNIKOSHI, HIRONORI OTSUKA BEGAN TRAINING WITH GICHIN FUNIKOSHI IN THE SHOTOKAN KARATE STYLE.
IN 1930 OTSUKA SENSEI STOPPED TRAINING WITH FUNIKOSHI SENSEI AND BEGAN DEVELOPING HIS OWN STYLE OF KARATE WHICH EVENTUALLY WAS NAMED WADO RYU. WADO RYU AND WADO KAI ARE A BLEND OF SHOTOKAN KARATE AND SHINDO YOSHINRYU JUJUTSU. WADO LITERALLY IS DEFINED AS " THE WAY OF PEACE AND HARMONY".
GRAND MASTER MASURU SHINTANI WAS A CANADIAN OF JAPANESE DESCENT WHO BECAME OTSUKA SENSEI'S MAIN STUDENT IN NORTH AMERICA. OTSUKA SENSEI DESIGNATED MASTER SHINTANI (9TH DAN) AS THE SUPREME INSTRUCTOR OF NORTH AMERICA.
TODAY THE WADO KARATE ASSOCIATION OF CANADA IS ONE OF THE PREMIER KARATE ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA.
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