 Students and instructors from the Farnham, Haslemere and Guildford clubs joined the Wado Ryu England team to train and compete in the Tokyo Budokan in August 2024. Members got to train at a number of venues including at the Nihon University Karate club, before the weekend intense competition over two days. Thanks to [...]
 Several club students attended the 2024 Wado Academy summer course in Somerset, with great instruction from Sensei Arthur & others who taught on behalf of Shiomitsu Sensei 9th Dan Hanshi. Thanks to everyone who attended & well done to those who passed their gradings...the clubs have a new 1st Dan. Pictured are some [...]
 The 3rd generation Wado-Ryu Grandmaster, Hironori Otsuka III, came to Europe to conduct a number of seminars for Wado Academy students and other Wado-Ryu enthusiasts. The first weekend was Oslo in Norway, then Paris in France and lastly Rome in Italy. Students from the club attended the Paris seminar, which consisted of 3 [...]
 The clubs were delighted to see Greg pass his 1st Dan Black Belt in front of a distinguished grading panel on the 2024 Winter Course. This was his 3rd attempt at his black belt and he showed great spirit and tenacity to finally achieve his goal. As we always say, no mean feat [...]
 The annual Winter Course was held at the Guildford Spectrum in February 2024 under the senior instructors, led by Arthur Meek 8th Dan Sensei. The five days went quickly and over 200 students came from all over Europe to take part in the intense seminar. At the end of the course our Farnham [...]
 The 9 times World & European Champion hosted his 12th seminar for the clubs in Farnham in early 2023. Over seventy students had 3 hours tuition of his legendary fighting techniques and were put through their paces. Sensei Wayne may be the most successful karate competitor of all time, but he teaches with [...]
The annual Wado Academy winter course was held in Guildford in late February 2020, with the 3rd Wado-Ryu Grandmaster, Hironori Otsuka III over from Japan and instructing for the week. It was a superb weeks training and focussed on connected bodies and compression tnp release energy and create power. Over 300 people came to train [...]
The clubs have achieved the prestigious safeguarding code in Martial Arts award this week, after a huge amount of work from a couple of club members. Our gratitude goes to them and the award shows we take the safeguarding of ALL students seriously and have correct procedures in place. We are the only clubs in [...]
Over 60 students attended the seminar hosted by our Farnham dojo. Thanks to Sensei Arthur Meek 8th Dan & Sensei Peter Hill 7th Dan for the first class instruction. The theme was "get sweat", a favourite saying of Shiomitsu Sensei and sweat everyone certainly did! Everyone was able to socialise afterwards at a local pub [...]
M. Shiomitsu 9th Dan Hanshi, Chief Instructor of the Wado-Ryu Karate-Do Academy is pleased to announce the promotion of his Assistant Chief Instructor Arthur Meek to 8th Dan Renshi. This is after examination and scrutiny on 17th October 2019 at the Wado-Ryu Karate-Do Renmei headquarters in Japan in front of Grandmaster H. Otsuka III and [...]
