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39 - My Discussions with Mitani Sensei

Season 1, Ep. 39

39 - My Discussions with Mitani Sensei (by Bob McMahon)


My Discussions with Mitani Sensei...one of the last teachers of original karate! 


Mitani Kazuya Sensei, 7th Dan in Original Traditional Karate, is a student of the late last Master of the original Karate, Kinjo Hiroshi, 9th Dan, Hanshi. Kazuya Sensei is attempting to alert karateka from around the world to the possibility that original karate may soon be lost to us all! 


​He feels it is his duty to speak out about the original karate before it disappears from the world altogether. He is receiving both pleasant and unpleasant email communications in regard to his forthright views. He said, “I hardly speak about the truth in Japan because many karate teachers do not favour the truth. They prefer to hide it.”




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