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[5] [6] After Kimura's death in 1995, this international organization was formed to promote his style, co-led by his four senior students: Eddie Daniels, head of Shukokai Karate Federation, Bill Bressaw, head of American Shukokai Karate Union, Chris Thompson and Lionel Marinus of South Africa.
In 1946 Robert Trias, a returning U.S. Navy veteran, began teaching private lessons in Phoenix, Arizona. [9] Other early teachers of karate in America were Ed Parker (a native Hawaiian and Coast Guard veteran who earned a black belt in 1953), [10] George Mattson (who began studying while stationed in Okinawa in 1956), and Peter Urban (a Navy veteran who started training while stationed in ...
Peter Consterdine is a British martial artist who holds a 9th Dan in karate. [1] He was a Great Britain and England international [2] spending nine years as a regular squad member of the Great Britain Karate squad. In 1969 he was a founder of the Shukokai Karate Union (SKU) and he was Vice President of the English Karate Federation until his ...
Some later styles of karate have been derived from blending techniques from the four main branches, while others have added techniques from other martial arts. For example Kyokushin, which is an extremely hard style derived from Shotokan and Gōjū-ryū, involves much more breaking and full contact, knockdown sparring as a main part of training ...
In 1957, he started the first university karate club in the United States, at Caltech, and in 1959 founded the Southern California Karate Association. [9] As more dojos were opened throughout the U.S., the organization was renamed to Shotokan Karate of America (SKA) in 1969. SKA maintains its national headquarters in Los Angeles.
International Karate Organization; International Okinawan Gōjū-ryū Karate-dō Federation; International Shotokan Karate Federation; International Traditional Karate Federation; ISKA (sports governing body) Italian Federation of Judo, Wrestling, Karate and Martial Arts
The Karate World Championships, also known as the World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karate organized by the World Karate Federation ...
American male karateka (242 P) O. Olympic karateka for the United States (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 30 November 2014, at 12:14 (UTC). Text is available ...