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Contact Details
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Clive Young |
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01753 869970
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cliveyoung@f2s.com
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Anne-Marie Box
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01344 883347
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Instructors
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Club Instructors
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Clive
Young, 5th Dan
Sensei Young first started karate at Sussex University in 1972 and
trained with a KUGB club. He moved to London in 1973 and joined an
Okinawan karate style and was graded to 8th kyu. In 1976 he joined
Shotokan Karate International (SKIF) training at the Harrow Leisure
Centre dojo and gained his Shodan in 1979 and Nidan in 1981.
More recently he has trained at Kobukan under Sensei Carpenter and was
graded Sandan in 1995, Yondan in 2003 and Godan in 2009. All dan grades have been
awarded by Kancho Kanazawa. He has also trained in Tai Chi for 5 years
and practices the Yang Style short form.
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Anne-Marie
Box, 6th Dan
Sensei Box teaches at the mixed sessions on Tuesday evenings. She ran a
popular children's class every Thursday evenings from 1992 for many
years. She has been a student of
Sensei Carpenter since starting at a beginners class over 20 years ago
and has been graded at every level by Kancho Kanazawa.
In 1997 she gained 3rd place in the women's veteran kata in the World
Championships in Milan and also took 3rd place in the National
Championships for women's kata in 1999.
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Chief Instructors
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Sensei
Kanazawa, 10th Dan
President of the
Shotokan Karate International Federation (SKIF)
Sensei
Kanazawa an
original student of the founder of Shotokan Karate,
Master Funakoshi Gichin, and has dedicated himself to the study and
promotion of karate for more than 50 years. He founded the Shotokan
Karate-do International Federation in 1978 and the organisation now has
an estimated 2.4 million students in 106 countries. Sensei Kanazawa,
now in his 70's visits the UK twice each year to teach on National
Courses, but also finds the time to teach at Kobukan where students
receive personalised instruction from one of the world's greatest
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Roger
Carpenter, 7th Dan
Chief Instructor SKKIF
Sensei Roger Carpenter was born in London in 1945 and started karate
training in 1964 at the Lyons Sports Club In Sudbury Hill, Wembley.
Originally he trained in the Wado-Ryu style and graded under Sensei
Suzuki, and then changed to the Shotokan style under Kancho Kanazawa.
All of his grades from 5th Kyu to 6th Dan have been from Kancho
Kanazawa.
Since 1977 when Kancho formed SKIF, he has organised the schedules for
Sensei Kanazawa in the UK.
Originally this was for SKKIF and then for
his own UK organisation, SKKIF, which now has around 30 clubs in the
UK. Sensei Carpenter is the Chief Instructor and Chairman of SKKIF and
as such he undertakes bi-annual tours of all of the clubs in the
association to instruct and maintain high technical standards in the
organisation as well as to conduct gradings.
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Assistant Instructors
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Peter
Crawford, 3rd Dan
Peter Crawford started karate training in 1975, at his father's
Shotokan karate club in Langley, Berkshire. Since then he has studied
Shotokan, Shotobudo, Goju-ryu and Matsubayashi Shorin-ryu karate as
well as judo and aikido, and sees this experience as being very much
complimentary to his core Shotokan training.
Peter's karate is very much centred on kata, and the interpretation and
application of the moves within. This has lead him to research kata
from other styles, as well as the older versions of current Shotokan
kata. He is also a believer in use of training aids such as punchbags,
focus pads and video to provide more technical feedback than can be
obtained by just "punching air".
Peter has a deep interest in karate history, which he will inflict on
slow-moving club members in the bar after training. This does not mean
that he shuns modernity however, and he is a long-time member of a
number of karate-related internet discussion forums. Peter was awarded
3rd Dan by Kanazawa Sensei in November 2007 at the Windsor course.
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Tyrone
Stodart, 2nd Dan
 Tyrone
started karate in 1987 at the University of Sheffield, under
Sensei Mick Smith (5th Dan). In 1990 he moved to
Nagano Prefecure, Japan, and trained under Sensei Minoru Hotta (5th
Dan, JKA) until 1997, grading to 2nd Dan. After a long break from
karate upon leaving Japan, he started training at Windsor Kobukan in
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Nick
Lloyd, 2nd Dan
Nick first started karate in 1979 with KUGB in Brighton and graded to
7th kyu with Sensei Tomita. After a break from karate he recommenced
training in 2001 with a KUGB club in Virginia Water and graded through
to 1st kyu, mainly with Sensei Enoeda, but also with Sensei Ohta. In
2003 he then moved to SKKIF and started training under Sensei Carpenter
at Kobukan in Windsor and was graded Shodan by Sensei Kanazawa in 2004 and Nidan in 2010.
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