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Wado-Ryu Karate Trainings Moscow 1996

André De Rijck, commercial attaché at the Belgian Embassy in Moscow, lived in Moscow for many years.
André had a perfect command of the Russian language and was thus naturally integrated into the daily life and population of Moscow.
He founded the Wado-ryu Karate Club of Moscow, with more than 50 members and trained many Russian black belts in Wado-Ryu.
André also translated Master Kamigaito’s Karate manuals, Kihon, volume 2 and Pin-An katas, volume 3 into Russian.
He was remarried to Nadezhda with whom he had a daughter.
He died prematurely on May 1, 2021….

In 1994, his club was growing rapidly and he invited his Belgian friends for a few days in Moscow in 1994. It was Jean-Maurice Huard, the successor of Kamigaito Yoshikazu Sensei, who led the lessons there.

This video shows a nice cultural exchange between Russian and Belgian Karatekas.
The “tourist” part has been kept in this video because it is also a simple testimony of the opening of Russia in 1994.

But what can we say today, on 7 December 2024, thirty years later?
The light is going out in Ukraine, but it is dark in Moscow.
The heat is disappearing in Ukraine, but it is in Moscow that hearts are freezing.

Will the universal Christmas message of peace “Peace on earth to men of good will” be heard in this majestic Kremlin?

But let us be clear: such a “special operation” carried out on the territory of an independent country like Ukraine has no place in our world.
Let’s hope that Russia, its leaders and its people decide together to stop this “special operation” soon.

07-12-2022

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Wado-Ryu Shiai and Katas competition at Leuven in the years 75, part1

Wado-Ryu Shiai and Katas competition at Leuven in the years 75 with Kamigaito Yoshikazu Sensei. Also demonstration of Kata Kushanku by members of the Samoerai Karate Club Leuven ( teacher Luc Galmart, members Jean-Pierre Vansina and Xavier Wispenninckx Also demonstration of Sanchin Kata by Kamigaito Yoshikazu Sensei. One of the corner referee was Mister Raymond DAGRAIN responsible of the section Karaté at the FTAM ( Fédération Travailliste des Arts Martiaux ). Kamigaito Sensei teached a lot of time in different clubs of the FTAM in Wallonie.

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Wado-Ryu Shiai and Katas competition at Leuven in the years 75, part2

Wado-Ryu Shiai at Leuven in the years 75 with Kamigaito Yoshikazu Sensei. One of the corner referee was Mister Raymond DAGRAIN responsible of the section Karaté at the FTAM ( Fédération Travailliste des Arts Martiaux ). Kamigaito Sensei teached a lot of time in different clubs of the FTAM in Wallonie.

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Wado-Ryu Karate Training Budapest 1994

Special circumstances of this training:
Back to the roots…
see the text on Youtube attached to this video

In july 1994, with my wife and my mother, I went in Hungary to find back the roots of my mother Kató…..