Sensei Wayne Tyler

Sev­enth Degree Black Belt and World Cham­pion.

Wayne Tyler
Sev­enth Degree Black Belt

Dur­ing a visit by the Late Grand Mas­ter H. Oht­suka in 1970, Mr. Tyler was spot pro­moted to the rank of ShoDan (1st degree) Black Belt. This was not a com­mon prac­tice and speaks highly of Mr. Tyler’s abil­ity to per­form Wado tech­niques as they were designed.

Mr. Tyler’s exper­tise in the Wado sys­tem and the abil­ity to man­age allowed him to open his first full time karate school in 1972 and expanded to 3 dojos over a 15 year period. Cur­rently he is senior instruc­tor and head oper­a­tor at David Deaton’s Karate School in Mt. Juliet, Ten­nessee with well over 250 students.

Mr. Tyler has also been very active in the com­pe­ti­tion arena through­out the years. In 1974 he was one of the U. S. East­ern Wado-Ryu Karate-Do Fed­er­a­tion team mem­bers that trav­eled to New York com­pet­ing in the Wado Cham­pi­onships spon­sored by the Inter­na­tional Wado-Ryu Fed­er­a­tion. He has also com­peted in the NASKA world tour and in 1999 attained the World Cham­pi­onship as num­ber 1 in forms and was ranked num­ber 2 in weapons and num­ber 3 in fighting.

Mr. Tyler has stud­ied two other styles of mar­tial arts. Oki­nawan Kempo Karate-Do Kobudo (weapons) and Katori Shinto Yoshin Ken­jutsu Ryu (samu­rai sword). In 1979 Mas­ter Sei­kichi Odo pro­moted him to 1st degree black belt in weapons.

Sen­sei Tyler is a true mar­tial artist and Wado-Ryu Instructor/Practitioner.

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