a brief history of a martial arts journey

My first karate instructor was SA JKA Karate's Stan Schmidt.
After my departure from SA and return from San Fransisco I studied taiji, karatejutsu and kobujutsu with Sifu Edward Jardine. Sifu Jardine encouraged me to join him in Japan Grandmaster Inoue Motakatsu. I lived in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan for two years and during this time trained at the dojo in Shimizu, taught drums and English, ran a karoke club until two years later moved to Australia.

My personal experience of running Karaoke clubs in Japan and providing security to Japanese Companies within the industry as well as security for concerts and club events, both for my own company and others has honed my skills in awareness, focus and polite non-aggressive crowd and security control.

I have provided security in San Fransisco, South Africa, Japan and Australia both in aprivate and business capacity for private and corporate clubs and music event organizers.

Under the guidance of Spiritual Master Vereesh (Danny Suchon Sanchez) at the Humaniversity in Egmond aan Zee in Holland, I practiced meditation and osho-do and other group work for many years.

Here in Australia, I first trained taekwondo, kick boxing, boxing and aijutsu and later discovered Kyoshi Patrick McCarthy and The International Ryu Kyu Karate Research Society.

I was graded first Dan in Karate-jutsu and Kobu-jutsu in 1998 by Kyoshi Patrick McCarthy during this time training in Koryu Uchinadi under Sensei Marc Mathews (Australian Chief Instructor and Sensei Roland Gill) attending as many seminars With Kyoshi McCarthy as possible.

My previous system of study was Ryu Kyu Karate-Jutsu and Kobu-jutsu of which I obtained black belts in both systems.
Training this system is divided into; Toshu - Jutsu (empty hand arts) and Emono-Jutsu (weapons arts). The former comprises different ranges of kicking, punching, locking, throwing and grappling techniques and the latter mainly the Ryu Kyu weapons such as sai, tonfa, kama and nunchaka which I practise. There are many Katas both in the Karate syllabus and the weapons system. I have retained and practise those I consider valuable.

In 2003 I began teaching children at Crown Street Public School, Matraville Soldiers Settlement Public School, Botany Bay Public School and more recently teaching Self Defence Classes at Kincoppal, Kambala, Sceggs, Ascham, Queenwood, Rose Bay Secondary College and for individuals interested in personal martial arts ans self defence training instruction and for other like minded groups.

The movements and meditation form a part of each systems philosophical and spiritual methods of introspection and my attempt is to join them together harmoniously.

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