Kousaku yokota biography for kids
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KOUSAKU YOKOTA
8th Dan Karate Do Asai Ryu Budo.
Founder of the ASAI organization (Asai Shotokan International Association)
Author of many books on Karate.
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Shihan Yokota, 8th dan, was born in 1947 in the city of Kobe, Japan and has extensive martial arts experience of nearly 60 years. Not only does he have over 50 years of Shotokan Karate experience, he has also studied other styles of karate, Goju-Ryu and Kyokushinkai. He is also familiar with the art of Judo and Ki. He has experience with Kobudo (weapons) too; Nunchaku, Sai and Nanasetsubin (7 chain whip) to deepen and supplement his knowledge and skills in Karate-do.
Yokota started his martial arts training in 1960 when he was just 13 years old. He started taking lessons in Judo at the Hyogo Prefecture Police station, where he met a fellow student who also practiced karate. (This student was practicing Judo to further improve his fighting skills.) Yokota was so impressed by him that although he had been training in Judo for three years, he made the decision to switch his training to Karate. Yokota, thus, joined the JKA Prefecture headquarters in Kobe and started his training in Karate-do in 1
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Yokota Sensei has extensive martial arts experience. Not only does he have over 40 years of Shotokan Karate experience, he has also studied other styles of Karate such as Goju-Ryu and Kyokushinkai, Judo and Ki. He has experience with weapons as well, and has studied the ways of Nunchaku and Sai to deepen and supplement his knowledge and experience in Karate-do. Yokota Sensei started his martial arts training in 1960 when he was just 13 years old. He began his training in Judo by taking lessons at the Hyogo Prefecture Police station. At this Judo dojo, there was a student who also practiced Karate – he was practicing Judo to further improve his fighting skills. This practitioner impressed Yokota Sensei so much that even though he had been training in Judo for two years, Yokota Sensei switched his martial arts training to Karate. He joined the JKA affiliated Kobe YMCA Karate Club. In 1973, he moved to Philadelphia, PA and became a full time instructor at the ISKF headquarters as well as a personal assistant to Master Okazaki, 9th dan, ISKF Chairman. Yokota Sensei was one of the top competitors in the East Coast Regional tournaments in the 1970’s. He returned to his hometown Kobe in 1981 to complete his instructor’s training under the late Master Sugano, 9th dan, JKA Vice Chairma
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