An update to an article originally written by Peter Zehr-Sensei in 2016 So here I am on a dreary winter day, thinking, “Where to now?” I have just finished an amazing weekend of training with Peter Giffen, head of Ryusei Canada, and Matt Mannerow, one of my first students and now an accomplished karateka and…
Glenn Euloth is the chief instructor of the Atlantic Karate Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Started in 1969, the AKC has been one of the longest-running and most successful martial arts dojo in the country, producing a long line of teachers, competitors, and highly skilled Chito-Ryu karateka under inspired leaders such as Michael Delaney and…
From July 12 to 13, Canada held its annual Ryusei Summer Camp in the beautiful resort area near Barry’s Bay, Ontario. The camp was special because it brought together long-time members from Ontario and Quebec with new ones, including people from Atlantic Canada and Whitby. Our long-time friends from Pittsburgh and Florida also joined us,…
This Q&A introduces Randy Roach and his Cheticamp Karate Club to the rest of the Ryusei members. Despite his remote location on Cape Breton Island, Randy has pursued his love of martial arts travelling hours at a time by car to get instruction. More than a decade ago, he and Scott Aucoin opened their dojo…
Mike and Dawn Brown are a married team in life and a karate teaching duo who run the West River School of Karate, based in Rustico and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Mike, a 5th dan, and Dawn, a 4th dan, combine an island sense of hospitality and charm with a devotion to martial arts excellence…
The head of our style, Sakamoto-Sensei, is an 8th dan, and he decided that Ryusei Karate-Do would be an eight-dan system. So we have no ninth or 10th dans. The fewer black belt ranks didn’t mean much to us 24 years ago when Ryusei Karate came to Canada. We were all far from reaching his…
Ce qui suit est une entrevue avec Chantal Lepage et Anik DesRosiers, les deux instructeurs du Onnano Dojo de Sherbrooke, Québec (Canada). Le dojo a été fondé par Chantal en 2001, dédié à aider les femmes victimes de violence et d’autres types d’abus. Aujourd’hui, le dojo suit toujours ce mandat et propose régulièrement des cours…
In December 2023, we were proud to accept Ed Docherty-Sensei and his International Chito-Ryu Karate & Fitness (ICKF) dojo as members of Ryusei Karate-Do Canada. Ed is a sixth dan who runs a strong school in Whitby, Ontario, and maintains a deep relationship with his own sensei, Art Bellhouse, one of the pioneers of Chito-Ryu…