WKF World President Ronnie Colwell

Ronnie Colwell is a legendary figure in British Martial Arts. He is one of the founding fathers of British Karate and British Ju Jutsu. Indeed he held the post of first chief instructor to the British Ju Justsu Association, the governing body for Ju Jutsu in the UK.

Colwell's life has been spent in the study of the martial systems of Japan. From a young boy in the back streets of Liverpool to today, he has tirelessly devoted himself to pursuing excellence. A renowned International instructor, Colwell has taught throughout the world. He is known as a very direct and straight talking budoka who doesn't suffer fools gladly. In Colwell's own words "I live my life as I train, always getting straight to the heart of it. Life is too short to waste on superfluous or wasted action. This is as true in the dojo as out of it.".

World President of the WORLD KOBUKAN FEDERATION
Chairman of the Board WORLD KOBUKAN FEDERATION
Chairman of the Technical Board WORLD KOBUKAN FEDERATION
Patron of the DISABLED MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION
President of the JAPAN INSTITUTE
President of the SEI-BU-KAN KOKUSAI KYOKAI
President of the TRADITIONAL SHOTOKAN KARATE ASSOCIATION
President of the SEN-NO-SEN KARATE and JAPAN CULTURE INSTITUTE
President of the MIYAGI SCHOOL OF GOJO RYU KARATE, SOUTHPORT
President of the KOKUSAI KOBUJUTSU JYU JUTSU KORYU KYOKAI
President of the SHOTOKAN KARATE SCHOOL of MALTA
President of the LIVERPOOL FREE STYLE KARATE ASSOCIATION
President of the MUSHINKAI
President of the WA BU DO ACADEMY
President of Shinanju Shin Do
President of Shido Gaku Kan
Chief Supervisor of the WUKO World Technical Commission
Technical Director United States National Karate Association
Technical Director All Japan Ju Jitsu International Federation
Technical Advisor for the European Ju Jitsu Union
Karate Editor to Martial ARts Illustrated Magazine
Technical Advisor for Kobudo to COMBAT MAGAZINE

 

 

WKF Vice President Roy Fox

 

WKF Secretariat General Adam Fox

Sensei Adam Fox began his karate training in 1983 and has been training for over 27 years. He began teaching in 1984, assisting the children's program, and by 1992, was running several different children's programs for the Pacific Martial Arts in San Diego, while also assisting in the running of the office for Chief Instructor Grandmaster Jerry Devine who taught him the ins and outs of dojo management.

In 2001, he opened the Mission Hills Wa Bu Do Academy offering programs for children and adults. In 2002, he relocated to Southern Oregon where he served as a Deputy Sheriff, Field Training Officer and Emergency Medical/Law Enforcement Telecommunicator. He has been awarded the Governor's Award for excellence by DPSST (Department of Public Safety Standards and Training) and holds multiple Law Enforcement Certifications. Sensei Fox is the Chief Instructor for the Wa Bu Do Academy, The Secretariat General and Oregon State Representative for the World Kobukan Federation and on the WKF Board of Directors and Promotion and Testing Board.

 

Board of Directors

 

 

Ryuji Hayashi Kancho - Technical Director/Board of Directors

Ryuji Hayashi started training at aged 16 his Uechi-Ryu Karate directly under Uechi Kani Sensei from whom he would eventually receive the highest technical award (at that time 5th Dan was the highest technical award).

At the same time he started Kobudo training directly under Akamine Eisuke Sensei (who was the senior Teacher) and Minowa Katsuhiko Sensei, again he received the highest technical Dan award directly.

His teachers regularly came to Amami Oshima to teach and he spent years on Okinawa (it should be mentioned that at that time the Dan awards where very strict. (and especially under these Senior Masters) he would be 40 years old by the time he achieved these highest technical and ability awards.

Currently Hayashi sensei is Kancho of the Oshima Shubukan, teaching Uechi-Ryu and Kobudo
Senior member: Okinawa Uechi-Ryu Karate-Do Hozonkai
Senior member: Ryukyu Kobudo Hozonkai (President Kinjo Sensei)
Technical Director of the: Japan Institute
Vice President: Kobukan Institute

Tojo Toyohiisa - Japan Delegate/Technical Board

 

Shihan K. Yakota - Technical Advisor/Board of Directors

 

Hiroki Takeda - Amamai Oshima Tokushima Japan/Board of Directors

 

Yehuda Mor - Technical Advisor for Krav Maga/Board of Directors

My name is Yehuda Mor. I was born in 1952 and by the age of 14 was training Jujitsu intensively with my sensei Jonah Aviv. Jonah had previously trained for many years in Japan and America. By the time I joined the Israeli Defence Forces at 18 I was a first dan. The four years in the army were as a frontline soldier fighting in many campaigns including the 1973 Yom Kippur war. The three years after the army were spent dedicated to my martial arts training spending my time both improving and instructing in many clubs and schools.

In 1977 the Israeli government recalled me to active duty in a specialist terrorist combat unit known as Ymam. Here I was both instructor and active combatant. My role was to develop specific fighting techniques to be used in the specialist situations we would encounter. As a unit we offered hostage solutions, kidnap situations and face to face combat in many different arenas. As the combat trainer of the elite unit I was also required to train visiting units form America and Europe. I stayed with Ymam until 1990 when the American government requested my services to train some of their presidential combat units in hand to hand hot and cold weapon fighting. The year spent in America was the same time I gained my 5th Dan.

In 1991 I returned to the Israeli government service to be integral in the set up and specialised training of a new combat unit known as Giddonim. I continued with this unit until 2008 as both active soldier and specialist combat technique development and instructor. As the specialism and application of the techniques and instruction I could offer were of such  direct value I was also greatly involved in American specialist forces training.

Now I am directly employed by the Israeli government for VIP protection around the globe.

Jim Mather - Board of Directors

 

Yehuda Alfasa - Aikido Technical Advisor

 

Bryson Keenan - Technical Advisor for Goju Ryu

 

 

Alfie Lewis - Freestyle Karate Technical Advisor