Karate Days: The ’70s and ’80s!
Sid and Reg: A Study in Karate
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Reg says:
‘Looking through some old photos I came across some pictures of Sid Wise, one of my old instructors, and thought it might be nice to recognise him on my website, so this is a page dedicated to Sid and my memories of him …
… The first time I saw Sid if I remember correctly was about 1972, it was at one of the Sankukai Clubs at Clifton near Nottingham when I was looking round the local karate clubs. The second time was at Bushiki at Ilkeston when I looked at another Sankukai Club. He was the sole instructor at the Clifton club, and joint instructor at the Ilkeston club. At the time he was a second dan. I thought it a little strange at first, as he wore his gi a little short on the arms and legs, but very soon found him to be a very impressive karateka …
… And I must say that I am very pleased to have met and trained with him. Even though he is the man that put me in hospital for three weeks, and off work for about three months, with a mis-focussed Kaiton geri Gedan, I was very disappointed when he decided to give up karate. Come back Sid, all is forgiven! I trained under Sid for probably 15/18 years, and never regretted one of those sessions …
… Some of the pictures on this page were kindly donated by Sid himself – many thanks Sid.’
‘I remember one day we were doing a demonstration at the Chilwell Ordnance Department. Sid and Alan Carruthers were supposed to do a demonstration of knife attacks and the defences to them, but at the last minute Alan pulled out, so Sid had only about 5 minutes to rehearse the attack moves with John Bingham …
… Horror struck when John attacked Sid with a real knife with a six inch blade! As Sid threw John, he dropped the knife, then seemed to land on it. There was a deathly hush …
… Then we saw that John had not in fact fallen directly upon the blade, and he got up, shook himself down and continued with the demonstration! Fortunately he had sustained no injury and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.’
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