Tag: French Karate Federation

Gilbert Gruss

Personally I would define Karate-do as the way of the free hand rather than that of the empty hand. Because the goal is to make what you have learned bare fruit. Nothing is fixed in the combat arts. Gilbert Gruss Considered one of the pioneers and greats of French Karate, Gilbert Gruss has dedicated his …

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On this day….(June 25)

On this day, 25 June 1959, the first written correspondence between Vernon Bell and head of Yoseikan Karate, Minoru Mochizuki took place. Mochizuki had first come to France in the early 1950s to conduct a number of training sessions in Judo and Aikido. All correspondence between Mochizuki and Bell had previously gone through Henri Plee. It was through …

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