Karate Armchair Historian

Hello Everyone! I am not much of a karateka, although I do credit martial arts with being the most positive influence on my life and consider the day I received my karate Shodan as the second happiest day in my life, after the birth of my child. I am, however, a trained historian and a trained lawyer, and I absolutely LOVE to do research, especially historical research. My martial arts journey began in the late 1980's when I first joined an aikido and then a JKA karate club at my university, and have trained off and on (mostly off) in the arts. But what I really enjoy the most is the history, the controversies, the masters. They will all be presented here. Any videos are shown under the Fair Use Doctrine, Section 107 of the Copyright Act. My avatar is a photo from a 1992 JKA tournament.