Independent Shotokan Karate School, established 1972
"Mind and Body in Harmony" • Phone 01284 810 446
KENSHINKAI
SHOTOKAN KARATE
Personal Kenshinkai
Shotokan Histories
1994
Kenshinkai moved from Dagenham to Chadwell Heath, Essex with its most Senior Instructor Glen Moulds 4th Dan taking the responsibilities of Chief Instructor. Kenshinkai then joined the JKA-UK, now re-branded as Karatenomichi World Federation - UK. The club has grown to over 200 students with clubs in Essex, Suffolk and India.
2005
Kenshinkai hosts the 2005 KWF Gasshuku at Culford, with Sensei Yahara instructing. There is a grading exam during the camp at which Sensei Moulds is awarded his 5th Dan by Sensei Yahara.
2006
Japan Karate Academy opens in Barrow, UK.
2007
Kenshinkai leaves the JKA to become an independent club.
Modern History
Kenshinkai Club Lineage
Glen Moulds
Kenshinkai Founder
Chief Instructor
Barrow
Title
Red Lodge
Title
Moreton Hall
Yasutsune Azato
Master trainer of
Gichin Funakoshi
c.1827/28 - 1906
Yasutsune Itosu
Master trainer of
Gichin Funakoshi
c.1830/32 - 1916
Gichin Funakoshi
(1868 - 1957)
Founder of
Shotokan Karate
Masatoshi Nakayama
(1913 - 1987)
Hirokazu Kanazawa
b. 1931 SKKIF
Eddie Whitcher
(1941 - 1990)
Founder of Kenshinkai
Glen Moulds
(1957 - )
Chief Instructor Kenshinkai
This timeline illustrates the pure and direct path
from the foundations of Shotokan Karate to the
current day practice of Kenshinkai Shotokan
overseen by our Chief Instructor, Sensei Moulds
5th Dan, Japan.
Sensei Edward Arthur Whitcher was the founding member of the Kenshinkai Shotokan Karate Club.
The club's name was awarded in 1972 by Sensei Shihan Kanazawa.
'Kenshinkai' means 'mind and body in harmony' this epitamising our founder's way, being integral to Shotokan and the principle of our karate training.
Kenshinkai History
- The Club's Name
• History or Karate
• History or Shotokan
• History or Kenshinkai
• Sensei Whitcher
• Sensei Moulds
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