The JKF Wado Kai Canada, Syndicated

Voici l’invite pour Les Femmes et le karaté 2009: Invite (PDF)

At an examination for 6th and 7th Dan candidates in Sendai (Japan), Norma Foster and three others attempted the test for their next dan grades. Norma was the only one who passed! In addition to her Kyoshi title, she is one of the few people in the JKF Wado Kai who as passed this examination. She is still the highest ranking woman in the JKF Wado Kai.

This comes on the heels of Bob Nash passing his 7th Dan examination earlier this year. This is great news for the Wado Kai federations in the United States and Canada, validating that the path Norma and Bob have chosen for themselves and their students is worth the work.

To all Wado Kai members in Canada, let’s have a beer and celebrate, eh?

Mr. Bob Nash recently informed us that the online forum that is available on
the US Wado Kai web site is back up and running. Apparently a good clean up
was all that it needed. You can access this forum at: www.uswadokai.com/forum.

The planned April edition of the newsletter quickly became the May edition due
to a couple of unexpected delays. Once again we have tried to give everyone
an impression of what is happening in Canada, so download it now! Feel free to
pass this on to everyone who might have an interest in keeping up with what is happening
in the True North!

Please note that you can send content at any time for the newsletter to the
following email address: newsletter@canadajkfwadokai.org.

Older editions of the newsletter can be downloaded from the CZWKA web site.

We have been looking in to setting up a podcast, and our first attempt
seems to be a success. Visit www.canadajkfwadokai.org/multimedia and check
out the first two entries. There will be more content to come, and we are
definitely hoping to showcase our Canadian talent here.

The Canadian ZenKuRen Wado Karate Association is a participant in the Arawaza affiliate program. Also known as Kamikaze, Arawaza is one of the premiere suppliers of equipment for karate in the Americas and throughout the world..

The quality of service and the wide variety of merchandise makes it one of the preferred vendors in the martial arts industry, and they have expanded with offices in several countries.

Check them out, and see the difference!

Hello All,

This year’s membership fees are due by April 30th, 2008. The fees and penalties
have not changed from last year, so feel free to copy your current spreadsheet
and use it for your 2008 CZWKA membership. Please note that the fees were
doubled for 2007 and 2008 in order to help pay the costs of holding the
World Wado Kai Karatedo Championships 2008.

Please go to this page to download the required
documents, if necessary.

If you received the last post, “Get The News, Your Way” by email subscription, and the last couple of paragraphs did not make a lot of sense to you, you are not alone. The top of this email has a header - “The Canadian Wado Kai, Syndicated” - in grey, which is a link to the blog itself. Just underneath is the title of this post “Get The News, Your Way (Part 2)”, which is a link to the web page on the blog for this article.

Once you get to the site, the comments about how to subscribe using the links on the right will make more sense to you.

Regards,
The Canadian Wado Kai

The JKF Wado Kai Canada has a new addition to its’ web site, a blog. The big reason for adding this is to be able to centralize news of interest on to one area of the site. It will also allow us to use RSS to syndicate the news we publish here.

So, How do I get the news?

There are three ways to keep up to date with us now:

1. Bookmark this page and check up on us regularly.
2. Use an RSS reader to track this as an RSS feed, which is what this web log is.
3. Use the email subscription option (on the right), to receive new stories by email.

The acronym RSS has stood for many things over the years, one of which is Really Simple Syndication. It is a document format structured so that programs called RSS Readers can keep people up to date with their favourite sites - without them having to visit each one.

Are there sites besides blogs that use this technology? YES:

1. The BBC News has lots of feeds.
2. So does the New York Times.
3. And so does the CBC.

Don’t care to deal with another piece of software? Just subscribe using the email subscription link on the right. (Note: there will be zero spam related to this subscription!)

The images on the right are links that will allow people to add this feed to their favourite RSS reader. There are lots of ways to follow an RSS feed, using either software you download and install on your machine, opening an account with a web based reader, or getting a reader that works right in your browser. Here is an introduction to them.

All that to say, we hope that you jump on board and keep up to date with us!

Sincerely,
The JKF Wado Kai Canada.

As some of you may know, Bob Edgett (New Brunswick) has been serving as our Membership Director for the last couple of years. He has recently accepted a new post with K.C.I., and will be based in their Halifax office. As a result, he will no longer be able to continue in his current role.

I would like to thank Bob for having taken this on, and I hope that everything goes well for him in his new role with K.C.I.

So, yours truly is (once again) the membership director until the next election. I have confirmed with Norma Foster that the fees will indeed be the same as last year. I will be double checking the Excel spreadsheet and posting it on the site shortly. Next year we expect the fees to decrease!

I will also set the deadline for registration at the same time that I update the Excel spreadsheet.

Best Regards,

Anthony Bhagwandin