OKINAWA KOBUDO AUSTRALIA KAZUKAN

SHINPO MATAYOSHI

Sensei Shinpo Matayoshi (1923-1997).

He began his training in martial arts at an early age under his famous father, Shinko Matayoshi. Sensei Shinpo also traveled extensively to teach his family's style of Kobudo.

In 1970 he founded the Ryukyu Kobudo Renmei, which was renamed to the Zen Okinawa Kobudo Renmei in 1972, and became its president.

The Matayoshi family dojo is called Kodokan (Way of Enlightenment) in honor of his father, whose first name Shinko means "True Light".

Sensei Luke Schroor

OKINAWA KOBUDO KAZUKAN

Sensei Luke began training in Matayoshi Kobudo in Australia in in 2001 and was graded to 1st Dan by Sensei Takehiro Gaja in 2006 with the certificate issued by the Matayoshi Kobudo honbu dojo, Kodokan.

In 2007 he moved to Germany and was encouraged by Sensei Gaja to continue training under Sensei Zenei Oshiro, head of the International Academy of Okinawan Kobudo in Paris and a direct student of Shinpo Matayoshi.

He continued his training in the Kazukan Dojo, a member of the German Okinawan Kobudo Association, which has a direct affiliation with Sensei Oshiro.

He has had the privilege of training in Okinawa on mulitple occasions at the dojo's of Sensei Takehiro Gaja, Sensei Kenichi Yamashiro and the Matayoshi Kodokan.

Sensei Luke moved back to Australia in 2017 and continues in Okinawa Kobudo.

On 23 September 2023, Sensei Luke was graded to 4th Dan by Sensei Zenei Oshio.

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