WSKF Perth students learn from instructors whose training runs straight back to WSKF Japan and Sensei Hitoshi Kasuya, 9th Dan. Here is who teaches on our floor.
Our Chief Instructor, Sensei Hitoshi Kasuya, 9th Dan, is a Japanese instructor known worldwide for his innovation, and one of the most outstanding karate masters in the art. He visits Perth by invitation to teach and grade our students at particular times of the year. His standards set ours.
Sensei Howard Mutton, 7th Dan, has trained almost exclusively in Shotokan karate for more than 40 years and is the most senior and highest-ranked WSKF instructor in Australia.
His early training, with local instructor Sensei Denis Purvis, mixed Kyokushinkai karate with a Shotokan influence. In 1980 he joined what was then the Shotokan Karate Association of Australia (now Shotokan Karate International Australia), where he had the privilege of training under the late Sensei Frank Nowak, whom he describes as one of the most inspiring karate-ka he has ever seen. He stayed with SKIA until 1995, training during that time with a number of well-known international instructors, including Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa.
He first trained with Sensei Hitoshi Kasuya in 1987. Kasuya Sensei's attitude and technical ability led Sensei Howard to join Kasuya Sensei's then-new organisation, the World Shotokan Karate-Do Federation, in 1995. Today he teaches at the WSKF Maylands dojo, just north of the Perth CBD, presides over all WSKF Perth dojos, and teaches the advanced brown and black belts at our Westminster club.
Sensei Edward, 4th Dan, is one of our most talented and charismatic instructors, mentored over several years by Sensei Howard Mutton, 7th Dan. He has trained in Shotokan karate for more than 20 years and has represented Australia at the WSKF World Championships in Japan. He continues to visit Japan every two years and is known for his versatility and his dynamic teaching style.
He is an accredited AKF coach and has coached and mentored several local kids to succeed in the local leagues. He currently instructs at our Baldivis, Mandurah and Westminster dojos, and is the person you will speak to when you book a first class.
Contact Sensei Edward: 0402 631 721
Book a first class and meet the instructor at the dojo nearest you.
Or call Sensei Edward on 0402 631 721
