Martial Library: Karate Katas of Wadoryu

In this week's book review, I look at "Karate Katas of Wadoryu", where author Shingo Ohgami describes the basic movements, bunkai, and principles behind nine kata as practiced in Wado-Ryu Karate.

[Unlessismore]

Thanks for the video. He was my sensei as a youth. Still miss him.

[lhmch]

Hello. I may be a bit late but I wanted to say that the bunkai in this book is not so much of bunkai but more of a way to help with how the technique is supposed to “feel”. We don’t do bunkai as much as other styles and the type of bunkai that we do are mostly these types of bunkai that help us understand the katas techniques. We learn the fighting techniques and grappling and that stuff in our partner excerises such as kihon kumite or ohyo kumite. Hope this clears some stuff up.