June, 2011

I want to tell you about when I started Karate and how I trained and how I want you to tell all my karate students.  Most students do not understand about what my Karate world is.  Anyway this is very simple not only for Karate students but for all life.

When I started Karate I did not want to just learn the techniques but with mind and body and spirit as well.  I contacted Ohtsuka Sensei because he was the founder of Wado Ryu and already a great teacher.  He heard that I wanted to follow his example completely and became my teacher.

Ohtsuka Sensei was a true Martial Artist he acted in all things as he should as a martial artist not just technically but mentally and physically as well.  He was not just a Karate man but a true Martial Artist. In Japan Karate, Kendo Aikido were learnt differently, they were learnt as martial arts.  Most people chose only one of these and studied them fully but Ohtsuka Sensei had practiced many martial arts from a small child and he learnt them as a martial artist, mentally physically and technically this is what made him a great martial artist.  This is why I wanted to learn from him how to be just like him in all ways.  This is why I trained so hard many, many hours each day to be like him in all things and to understand.

WIKF DAN GRADING SYLLABUS 2011-2013

The new Dan Grading Syllabus has been released by Sensei Suzuki. Just click on the read more link to view.

The USA branch of the Wado International Karate-Do Federation (WIKF) was established by Suzuki Sensei to maintain the highest technical standards as defined and characterized by the WIKF syllabus. The WIKF syllabus is the basis for the curriculum taught in all WIKF member dojo around the world. The USA branch of the WIKF is dedicated to honoring the philosophical and technical legacy of Wado-Ryu karate as taught by Tatsuo Suzuki, Hanshi. All of our dojo must be places where the participants are learning pure Wado technique; the act of learning itself is valued; the establishment of a sense of friendship and cooperation; the adherence to common values, traditions, procedures; and the underlying sense of orderliness and commitment to a common purpose.