Kancho Takemasa Okuyama 8th dan in action

Kancho Takemasa Okuyama demonstrating how to throw your opponent during seminar in Warszawa (Poland) before the 7th World IKA Karate Championships in 1997. Assistant in the second half: JD Dolan, highly appraised author and college professor Takemasa Okuyama is the head of the International Karate Association of Canada and has the Kancho title. He began to train in Japan at the age of 7. In line with the family tradition, he practised sumo and judo. At the aged of 13 he started to learn karate from master Kinjo from Okinawa. In 1960, he started to study at the Takushoku University in Japan. He studied political science and foreign trade, regularly training karate with masters Tabata, Hamanaka, and Tsuyama. In 1966, he arrived in the USA to continue his studies and started to train under the instruction of grandmaster Takayuki Kubota. In 1970, he moved to Canada, where he is the most important person in the Gosoku-ryu and Shotokan karate environment. In 1992, soke Takayuki Kubota awarded