SENSEI
Those who made the road
before
BIOGRAPHIES
"Old" masters of the past:
Bodhidharma (470-543)
"Tode" Sakugawa (1733-1815)
Sokon 'Bushi' Matsumura
(1797-1889)
"Ankoh" Azato
(1828-1906)
Kosaku Matsumura
(1829-1898)
Kokan Oyadomari
(1831-1905)
"Ankoh" Itosu (1831-1915)
Seisho Aragaki (1840-1920)
Ryuruko/ Xie
Zhongxiang (1852-1930)
Kanryo Higa(shi)onna
(1853-1915)
Kentsu Yabu (1866-1937)
Chomo Hanashiro
(1869-1945)
Moden Yabiku (1878-1941)
Choshin Chibana (1885-1969)
Tatsuo Shimabukuro's masters:
Chotoku K(i)yan (1870-1945)
Chojun Miyagi (1888-1953)
Choki Motobu (1870-1944)
Shinken Taira (1897-1970)
Working at
the bio's (Henk) names in RED means BIO is available
Corrections:
years /dates welcome, email:
henk_goslinga@yahoo.com
Isshinryu masters:
Tatsuo Shimabukuro (1908-1975)
 1956
Don Nagle (1938-1999)
 1958 Rick Niemira (January 20, 1939 - March
25, 1988)
1958
Don Bohan (1936-1998)
1958
Ed McGrath
 1962
Nick Adler
 YEAR Tommy May (no bio)
1974
Marilyn Fierro
YEAR Rick Adler (no bio)
1958 Lewis
Lizotte
1967 Chester
Holubecki
YEAR Joe
Russo sr.
1958
James Chapman (1938-1971)
c.1960
Doug Noxon (1929-1971)
c.1962 Willie Adams (b.1946)
1970 Robert (Bob) L. White (b.1973)
1973 Dave Joslin
1973 Ron Joslin
1968 Ralph
D. Passero
1956 Arthur Smiley
1956
Harry G. Smith (b.1937)
1960
Ralph Lindquist (b.1929)
1961
Jack Sipe (b.1939)
YEAR Ron McClellan
1968
John C. Devine
1968 Robert Hanula
1961
George Dillman
1969
Kim Dillman
(b.1953)
YEAR
Bart Ganster
1962
William Duessel
1962 Joe
Pennywell
YEAR George Iberl (b.1936)
1963
Thomas C. Voelker
(1926-2003)
YEAR Bob
Wolf
1981
Harry (Herk)
Weihrauch (b.1963)
1983
Tom
Zadan (b.1963)
1964 Bernard
Braverman
1968
Gene Powell (b.1953)
2000
Lisa Miller
1956 Kichiro Shimabuku (b.1938)
1957
Richard Keith
1961
Jack Sipe (b.1939)
1957
Harold Long (1930-1998)
1959 Allen Wheeler (1919-2005)
1974 John S. Dritt
1958 Shinsho (Ciso) Shimabuku
1958 Harold Mitchum
1958 Angi Uezu (b.1935)
1991
Tony Herald (b.1958)
1992
Greg Gudson
1995
Robert Slywa
AUSTRALIA
1959
Don Bohan (also: 1958 student
of Don Nagle)
1959 Steve Armstrong (b.1931)
1986 Fred van de Vijver (b.1954)
NETHERLANDS
1988 Jesûs Juni
Cadenet SPAIN
International Isshinryu Masters:
Salil
Nadkarni (b.1962) INDIA
Lars F. Andersen DANMARK
Andrei Tandraf ROMANIA
Other featured masters:
Walt Dailey
(b.1940)
 Zenpo Shimabukuro (b.1943)
Maung Gyi (b.1936)
History and Research:
Greg "Pappy" Gudson
Robert Hanula
Tony Herald (b.1958)
Major John Byrd (secretary OIKKA since
2002)
Joe Swift
Henk Goslinga
BACK |
