A good martial arts school does not become successful overnight. It grows in its community as it becomes rooted in the solid ground of customer satisfaction.
Mountainside Martial Arts Center has been serving the Ahwatukee-Foothills since 1979.
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What is Wado-Ryu?
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Wado-Ryu Karate is a Japanese martial art founded by Grand Master Hironori Ohtsuka in 1934. Ohtsuka Sensei developed Wado-Ryu after studying the Samurai martial art of Jiu-jitsu, and Shotokan (another style of Karate). This combination, according to Ohstuka Sensei, is a softer, more natural means of self-protection.
The full name of the style is Wado-Ryu Karate-Do. The term Wado-Ryu means "way of peace" or "way of harmony", indicating Ohtsuka Sensei's original intention to use training in Wado-Ryu as a means of solving problems in a non-violent way. Karate-Do means "way of the empty hand", as Karate is, for the most part, studied without the use of weapons. |
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