Canadian Shorinjiryu Kudaka Karate-Do Federation

 

Current Executive Members

 

Hanshi Doug Roberts (9th Dan)

 

With over 40 years of Karate-do training and teaching, and as one of the original students of Masayuki Kukan Hisataka, Hanshi Doug Roberts is the Chairman of the Canadian Shorinjiryu Kudaka Karate-do Federation. Hanshi Doug is well known in the senior international circles of Shorinjryu Karate and has presented scores of karate-ka with the designation of black belt within our Kudaka Federation.

 

Hanshi Doug Roberts

 

Hanshi Rick Black (8th Dan)

 

Hanshi Rick Black Began studying martial arts at J.C. Kim Taekwondo in the fall of 1978 in Montreal Quebec. In 1980, through a friend, he discovered the Siedokwan Acadamy of Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karatedo. Sensei Black, being impressed by the effectiveness and realism of the Shorinjiryu system, due to the emphasis on contact training, joined immediately. He trained there under the instruction of Hanshi Doug Roberts and Hanshi Wayne Donovan. Read More

 

Hanshi Rick Black

 

Hanshi Bob Cussler (8th Dan)

 

Hanshi Bob Cussler began studying karate at The Kingston Kobura Karate Club in Kingston Ontario, in the fall of 1986. He was introduced to Sensei Wolf Boggs through a mutual friend at work. Sensei Boggs held the rank of black belt in both Taekwondo and Shorinjiryu Kenyukai. Sensei Cussler was particularly interested in the intense physical training and hard style tactical fighting that Sensei Boggs demanded. He trained with him until the following autumn when Sensei Doug McBride returned from Japan and once again took over the Dojo he had left to Sensei Boggs. Read More

 

Hanshi Bob Cussler

 

Kyoshi Jean-Eric Gibeau (7th Dan)

 

Kyoshi Jean-Eric Gibeau was born November 1976,in Alexandria Ontario. He attended Iona Academy, Glengarry District High school as well as St-Lawrance Colledge. On September 19, 1989 at the age of 12, he started training under Sensei Art Levert and Sensei Hubert O'Brian in the art of Chitoryu. In 1990 Shihan Tom Bellazzi introduced Sensei Levert and OBrian to Shorinjiryu Kenkokan, at which point Sensei Gibeau began training in Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karate-do. Read More

 

Kyoshi Jean-Eric Gibeau

 

Shihan James Taylor (6th Dan)

 

Shihan James Taylor took his first class in Kempo Karate in 1992, and went on to continuously train under masters in various martial arts ranging from the sweet science of western boxing to the fluid and subtle art of tai chi. In 1999, Sensei James discovered Shorinjiryu Karate-do at the Kingston Kobura Karate Club, under Sensei Bob Cussler who is now Hanshi (8th Dan). Read More

 

Shihan James Taylor

 

Shihan Kristine Miller (6th Dan)

 

Shihan Kristine Miller, Go Dan, Shorinjiryu Kudaka Karate-do was born in 1978 in Kingston Ontario where she currently resides. She attended numerous elementary schools, Sydenham high school and studied at St. Lawrence College in the Child and Youth Worker Program, as well as Life Skills Coach and took courses in Child Psychology. She began practicing Shorinjiryu Karate in 1993, at the age of 15, with the Kingston Kobura Karate Club, under the instruction of Hanshi Bob Cussler. Read More

 

Shihan Kristine Miller

 

 

Senior Alumni Members

 

Hanshi Brian Aarons (9th Dan)

 

Shihan Wolfgang Boggs (7th Dan)

 

Shihan Doug McBride (7th Dan)

 

Shihan Tom Bellazzi (7th Dan)