Welcome.
Martial arts is my life. Having started studying wadoryu karate at the age of 6 my love and curiosity about martial arts has never wavered and as I entered my teens, this love blossomed, reaching fruition at 12 having obtained my Sho-dan-ho. After which I moved on as far as my 1st dan at 14. After joining the Royal Navy I learned of the fantastic variety of martial arts available.
After passing into the Royal Navy on the 3rd of October 2003, I moved to HMS Collingwood where I took up Jujitsu, Judo, and Tae-kwon-do for the duration of my training. Having started all over again in the martial arts a decade on from my original beginning I wanted more and more. So I took a trip to the book shop and started reading up on my martial arts, and soon after I started reading about other martial arts as diverse as kung-fu, kenpo, aikido and the collection is always growing.
With my 21st birthday approaching, I have decided that I wanted to do something diferent, so with "Every journey starts with a single step" from The Tao (Chinese lit-way or path)* I have decided to teach Wadoryu Karate in the Navy.
*What they neglect to tell you is, if the step is in the wrong direction, then the whole journey becomes two steps longer.
Site History
07/10/07
Started a terminology page starting with basic hand strikes, as well as a reccomended reading page.
05/10/07
Added a forum for discussions.
30/9/07
Added the Club rules, 20 principles for lifelong training, and Gichin Funakoshi's twenty principles of Karate.
25/9/07
Finished the syllabus page up to Shodan
24/9/07
Added 6th and 5th Kyu to the syllabus page
23/9/07
Added 7th Kyu kyu to the syllabus page and corrected some of the miss-spellings I found
22/9/07
Added to the History with the event that caused the emergence of karate, and began the Syllabus page with the requirements for 9th and 8th kyu
18/9/07
Started the History page off with a little about Okinawa Island and the wandering Monk Bodidharma
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