Update :: Dates are resolved as June 27 & 28

Once again, Satsuma Dojo is very fortunate to be able to host Kanazawa Hirokazu Kancho, founder, president and chief instructor of Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation.

On June 27-28, we invite you to join us as Kanazawa Kancho and his eldest son, Kanazawa Nobuaki Kancho, multiple-time world champion, offer seminars. Details and locations are still being discussed, but will be made available as they are ironed out.

Please see the attached flyer. If you have any questions or would like any additional information, feel free to contact me at 408-757-8073 or sensei.jay@satsumadojo.com.

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Satsuma Dojo Members & Friends,

I invite you to join us for a special seminar by Hanshi Jonathan Kwok, 7th dan and Chief Instructor for Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation--U.S. Federation, on Sunday, February 8, 9:30am-11:30am, at the Columbia Neighborhood Center in Sunnyvale.

We are fortunate to be able to host Kwok Sensei, who has been affiliated with Kancho Hirokazu Kanazawa for over 40 years and is an expert in the SKIF curriculum and concepts. The seminar will include both SKIF fundamentals and more advanced SKIF concepts.

See the attached flyer for details. If you have any questions or need additional information, feel free to contact me. 

Sensei Jay

Members and Friends of Satsuma Dojo,

Once again, Satsuma Dojo is very fortunate to be able to host Kanazawa Hirokazu Kancho, founder, president and chief instructor of Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation. On June 28-29, I invite you to join us as Kanazawa Kancho and his eldest son, Kanazawa Nobuaki Kancho, multiple-time world champion, offer seminars at the Columbia Neighborhood Center in Sunnyvale, CA.

Please see the attached flyer. If you have any questions or would like any additional information, feel free to contact me at 408-757-8073 or satsumadojo@yahoo.com.

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SKIF will be celebrating Kanazawa Kancho's 77th birthday and SKIF's 30th anniversary in Tokyo, October 23-25, 2008.

Please contact Sensei Jay by February 15th, if you plan on attending.
If we have at least 20 people, including family/friends, I can coordinate a group trip with Japan Air Lines. With JAL, we can each travel to Japan on different days, so you can add days before or after the SKIF events to best meet your individual travel needs/interests.

I know that this would be a big use of your precious vacation time. This is also a major karate event and celebration, the magnitude of which we may not experience again in our lives. I hope you can make the trip.  j

Sensei Manabu Murakami, Director of the International Division of Shotokan Karate-do International Federation, will be teaching seminars at the CNC on Tuesday, January 22, and Sunday, January 27. Many of you already know that Murakami Sensei is a multiple-time World Champion and an extremely proficient technician. In my opinion, his techniques reflect Kanazawa Kancho's teaching more than anyone else's in the world. We're very fortunate to be able to host Murakami Sensei given SKIF's 120 member countries and 1000's of training locations, so I encourage everyone to attend his seminars. -j Read More...

The Satsuma Dojo, on behalf of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation (SKIF), invite karateka of all ranks and schools to attend seminars taught by one of the leading karate exponents in the world. Hirokazu Kanazawa, a living legend in karate, is scheduled to hold special seminars in Sunnyvale, California.

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The Satsuma Dojo, on behalf of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation (SKIF), invite karateka of all ranks and schools to attend seminars taught by one of the leading karate exponents in the world. Hirokazu Kanazawa, a living legend in karate, is scheduled to hold special seminars in Sunnyvale, California.

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