An Italian delegation of the WKSI – in collaboration with “Progetti di Vita”, the day center dedicated to people with medium-severe and severe disabilities – will participate in the European project “TEN mueveTE por la inclusioN” held in Andalusia from 28 August to 4 September. The project, which is co-financed by the European Community drawing from Erasmus+ funds, will involve disabled and non-disabled athletes from Germany, Italy, and Spain, who will deal with the sports disciplines of Martial Arts, Yoga, and Trekking. This is a further and new initiative which, thanks to our permanent Abili al Karate observatory dedicated to the study, dissemination, and education about inclusive good practices, features Wadokai Karatedo Shingitai Italia as a reliable partner in the development of projects aimed at sporting and social inclusion.
“Ten muevete por la inclusion” – WKSI and “Progetti di Vita” in Andalusia from August 28 to September 4, 2023
25 August 2023
disabilities, Inclusive Sports, Karate, Wadokai
On the weekend of 15th and 16th April, 
On the sidelines of the seminar – a full immersion of very tight training – the JKF Wadokai graduation exams were also held, valid for the achievement of the black belt up to 3rd dan. In the examining committee, which by the Wadokai overseas regulation can only be composed of qualified examiners recognized by the Japan Karatedo Federation, there were Roberto Danubio, Eveline Danubio, Maurizio Paradisi, and 
Imagine a residential sports facility of over 125,000 square meters, where you can sleep, eat and train to enjoy incredible comfort. Imagine having any equipment or sports environment available all-inclusive, from the swimming pool to the beach volleyball courts, passing through the sauna, the infirmary (sometimes a little ice can come in handy), and a bar that is always open. Imagine wood-paneled living rooms, equipped with private bathrooms, and a restaurant specialized in sports cooking capable of satisfying every personal need, from preferences to food allergies, where you can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner enjoying hearty and carefully balanced meals while socializing with all the other participants speaking in English, Italian, German, and French. Imagine a training room the size of a soccer field, with a huge window overlooking the mountains that separate Switzerland from Liechtenstein that constantly offers you a breathtaking view. Imagine fifty or sixty karatekas from every Swiss canton and from Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, and so on. Imagine one of the most renowned and prepared instructors of the Japan Karatedo Federation Wado-Kai who with intelligence, rigor, and lightness guides you for six days in five hours of daily training, between morning and afternoon, rattling off and deepening the entire technical curriculum of Wado-ryu. Well, if you can imagine all this pretty stuff it’s not because you’ve got too much imagination, but because you have probably heard about the Renshin Kan’s International Wado-Kai Karate Summer Camp organized by 
The 2022 edition of what is probably the most prestigious Wadokai camp in Europe took place from 10 to 15 July and obviously, a 
The amazing thing about this Summer Camp is that no matter how many times you have been there, every time it manages to amaze and seduce you again. When the time comes to say goodbye, a lump always rises in your throat and while you’re thanking, shaking hands, and hugging everybody (finally!) you can’t help but promise, first of all to yourself, «See you next year here. Swear».
This time it was a training dedicated to the preparation of the exams from 1st to 5th dan which took place in the Danubio’s beautiful Renshin Kan traditional dojo in Weinfelden, Switzerland. In order to benefit from those three hours of lessons and practice, we left Italy at dawn and once in Switzerland, as every time, we were able to enjoy the superb welcome of Danubio’s family and all his other students, practitioners, and assistants.
During this specific training, Danubio sensei made us concentrate on the two-persons exercises to deepen the principles of Kihon Kumite, then he moved on to the Kata and, only at the end, to the practice of Kihon, in a kind of backward path that has led us to new meanings for those gestures which, after so many years of practice, could risk to wrongly be taken for granted. And also this time we’ve come back home with a new set of exercises and useful tips both for us and, in cascade, for our students. With the pleasant feeling of having taken a further step in understanding Wadoryu, walking on an authentically open and wide international dimension. A dimension from which, we can assure you, it is impossible to go back and which we will never stop recommending to anyone aiming to set out on a sincere path of technical and martial growth.
A very attentive, thoughtful and highly erudite teacher (not only of martial arts), he leaves an indelible mark in the European and global Wadoryu. As an author of two fundamental texts about karate, despite his popularity and although being universally recognized as one of the major authorities of traditional martial arts, on every occasion he never failed to amaze people with his humility and the refined, cordial simplicity of his manners.
