How a Japanese Karate Grandmaster Came to Teach in Lane Cove - In the Cove

How a Japanese Karate Grandmaster Came to Teach in Lane Cove - In the Cove

If you’re a Lane Cove local, studying and practising karate may be a recreational way of learning discipline and self-defence. For Kazuo Saito, it was for survival in a post-WWII Tokyo. “Japan is very dangerous place, so people are scared, but I don’t want to feel like this,” Kazuo told In The Cove, sitting in his dojo before his next class, “That is the reason, I do Karate.” The 80-year-old established Shinbukan Japanese Martial Arts Academy sh…

The Japanese karate has a long road map in Sept-Îles. It is 50 years old. Its half century of practice was highlighted during the first Gasshuku (intensive training together) organized by the Institute of Karaté Shotokan of Sept-Îles, at the end of March. The event also received Shihan Okazaki, 9th dan. Guy Gervais is behind the beginning of the practice of Japanese karate in Sept-Îles in 1975. The man landed in the area for the opening of the P…