Wado-Ryu Karate Manual for monitor -Yoshikazu Kamigaito Sensei - Kamigaito Yoshikazu Sensei, Wado-Ryu Karate Master

Our heartfelt thanks to Paul GAZON, a long-time practitioner of Wado-Ryu Karate with Mister Kamigaito, for digitizing and embellishing the original versions of the following 6 books.
Thank you Paul

Wado – Yoshikazu Kamigaito Sensei, Volume 1

To be translated…, see on this site french or flemish version

Kihon – Yoshikazu Kamigaito Sensei, Volume 2

Foreword

A few years ago, when I was still living in Liège, I had a rather curious adventure. For a Japanese who was still unaccustomed to the Belgian way of life, it was very revealing of a trait of character specific for Europeans.

At the time, I was a Karate instructor at university and received a lot of visits from practitioners from other schools. One of them, a brown belt from the Shotokan school, seemed very friendly and very sincere in training. So I was quite happy to work with him.

One day, I hear that he says that he can no longer participate in our training, that he complains about that I hide from him all the techniques of Wadô-Ryû and what I do make him and others only repeat the KIHON (i.e. the basic techniques) when he shows up for training and that he finally finds it a pity to spoil the training.

These statements, quite unexpected, stunned me and deeply saddened me; it is true that I did practice KIHON a lot, especially when he was there, but my intention was the opposite of his impressions; I had revised my teaching method almost in his own favor only. I also thought that this was a good opportunity to have everyone repeat KIHON because it was an exercise that we tended to overlook…

Foreword

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The 5 Pin-An Kata’s – Yoshikazu Kamigaito Sensei, Volume 3

I. Preface: About Katas (by Master HIRONORI OTSUKA)

The following pages are first devoted to the explanation of the Katas “PIN-AN”.
The origin of the Katas’ names and even their spelling are quite often confusing. The lack of general data on traditional Karate seems me to have as origin an exaggerated tendency for dissimulation among the ancient Okinawaians…

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