Talk:Wadō-ryū

message: Can someone confirm the belt colours on this page?
At my dojo, purple is higher than blue whereas this page indicates that blue is senior to purple.
The other colours match with what I am familiar with. Angelstorm (talk) 16:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belt colours 

message: I have cleaned up this article as best I can, but it needs some work on the kanji for the kata names (characters rather than GIF images) and references throughout. Janggeom 18:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article improvement 

message: I added an introductory paragraph to the Kata section and added more information on Patterson Sensei in the section about Wado spreading beyond Japan, with footnotes for the facts.  I also added some general references.  S. Morris (9-Oct-2008).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.211.6.15 (talk) 03:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added some references 

message: The Wikipedia manual of style frowns on the use of images to print text. (MOS:IMAGES) There's a number of reasons for this which are stated there.
The images being used here in place of real Kanji should be replaced with a proper textual representation. I note that some already have been replaced with real Kanji characters, but some remain.
If you don't know how to enter Kanji characters I'm sure someone could help you -- try the Wikipedia:Helpdesk. 
-Keith D. Tyler ¶ 19:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using images as text 

message: The comparison of Shotokan and Wado is foolishly done. Master Gigo Funakoshi experimented with attacking from the heel and hitting with the ball(cresent kicking) but left those as options, not as official technique. Grandmaster Gichin Funakoshi and Master Gigo mainly focused on moving and pivoting on the ball for great speed and easier hitting of higher parts as well as lower. The linear stance in most karate(aside from Goju, Kyukushin, and Kempo(Kenpo means law of the sword and is a mistranslation...of course language is weak and abstract...) is the initial stance to emphasize the kick as the primary attack in the attack, defense, or counter of an opponent; the beginning of most combos. Watch Lyoto Machida for example. Machida Karate is a return to the classical values and techniques of original Shotokan. He thrusts from the ball of the foot and when not attacking rests on the heel to conserve energy because it is a sport fight. Where Wado differs is in its greater emphasis on Jujitsu and the wrestling in it that Judo mostly abandoned. Shotokan borrowed more from Judo. Just look at the belt system developed by Grandmaster Jiguro Kano and his friendship with Grandmaster Gichin Funakoshi.Wiggalama (talk) 18:15, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Shotokan uses both types of reverse punch. The straight legged style is taught to junior grades to develop power and strong stances. For more advanced and sports purposes the other type gives a lot of extra reach to score a point, but is less powerful. Turning on the heels is slightly faster than on the balls of the feet, but is not practised in the west because it is considered bad for the knee joints.--Charles (talk) 10:26, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shotokan Wado Comparision Update 

message: I replaced the kanji images with actual characters, but the kata section is still kind of a mess to be honest. For two reasons.
1. Some of the kanji used in this article are different from the kanji used in the kata's respective article (Wanshū, Rōhai). Wanshū for example is written as 晩愁 in this article, but as 腕秀 and 汪輯 in its own article. I wouldn't be surprised if different styles used different kanji for a kata name while keeping the same pronunciation, but at the moment it just looks like this article is wrong, so we should find a reliable Wadō-ryū source for the kanji used.
2. Some of the translations given in the article are actually for the Shōtōkan versions of the names, not for the original ones used in Wadō-ryū (Kushanku/Kankū, Niseishi/Nijūshiho, Wanshū/Enpi). The original ones could have meant something completely different. If we go by the currently used kanji for Wanshū for example (晩愁), it would mean "evening sorrow", not "flying swallow" or "swallow flight", which is the translation of Enpi (燕飛).
As far as I know, some (most? all?) of those kata have a history of a few hundred years behind them and their names were pretty awkwardly transcribed from Chinese to Okinawan and/or Japanese, which is why even Japanese people have no real idea what their names are supposed to mean and prefer to just write them in katakana for that reason (see the Japanese article for this style).
MugiMafin (talk) 22:13, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kata name kanji and translation 

message: The Japanese article for Wadō-ryū doesn't list those two kata, and this site doesn't either, so we need an explanation for that, similar to the one for Suparinpei I guess, but preferably with a source. MugiMafin (talk) 22:28, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kunpu and Unsu