JKA England

JKA England

Abbreviation	JKAE
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	London
Membership	Japan Karate Association
Official language	English
Chief Instructor	Yoshinobu Ohta
Website	www.jka-england.org

JKA England (JKAE)^[1] is the official Japan Karate Association (JKA) organisation for Shotokan karate in England and Wales. Every year JKAE holds Spring and Autumn courses inviting instructors from the JKA honbu dojo to teach.

History

JKAE was officially formed in 2003 by several clubs from KUGB. Following the death of Enoeda, formerly chief representative of JKA in the UK and head of KUGB, there was a disagreement between the JKA, the KUGB, Andy Sherry (the next highest ranked instructor) and Yoshinobu Ohta (Enoeda's assistant). The result was that JKAE was formed with Ohta as chief instructor and the KUGB withdrew from the JKA with Andy Sherry as their chief instructor. Some KUGB clubs transferred to JKAE to form the new association, they possibly wanted to remain affiliated to the JKA or perhaps had a stronger sense of loyalty to Ohta. The division had a strong geographic correlation: most northern clubs chose KUGB and most southern clubs chose JKAE.

Instructors

Chief instructor is Yoshinobu Ohta, ranked at 7th Dan. He is a graduate of Takushoku University and attended the JKA instructor's classes at the JKA honbu dojo in Tokyo. Ohta was the assistant of Keinosuke Enoeda for 20 years,^[2] from 1982.^[3]

Technical Committee Members are Gary Stewart, 6th Dan, Roy Tomlin, 6th Dan and Adel Ismail, 6th Dan.

Competition

JKAE holds an annual national competition. From 2004 to 2008 this was held at Guildford Spectrum sports centre. From 2009 this has been held at K2 Sports Centre in Crawley.

The style of kumite competition rules is shobu ippon (one point match).

International course history

Date	Guest Instructors
May 2016	Minoru Kawawada, Yuko Hirayama, Keisuke Nemoto
September 2015	Takenori Imura, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium)
May 2015	Tomio Imamura, Fujikiyo Omura (JKA Thailand), Mai Shiina
September 2014	Katsutoshi Shiina, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium)
May 2014	Yoshiharu Osaka, Koichiro Okuma, Yasuaki Nagatomo (JKA New Mexico)
September 2013	Masaaki Ueki, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium), Ryosuke Shimizu
May 2013	Yoshiharu Osaka, Osamu Aoki (JKA Spain), Yasuo Hanzaki, Satoshi Takahashi
September 2012	Yasunori Ogura, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium)
May 2012	Katsunori Tsuyama, Yoshiharu Osaka, Yuko Hirayama
August 2011	Tomio Imamura, Seizo Izumiya
May 2011	Masahiko Tanaka, Yoshiharu Osaka, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium)
September 2010	Masaaki Ueki, Minoru Kawawada, Tomio Imamura
May 2010	Masataka Mori (USA), Yoshiharu Osaka, Tatsuya Naka
August 2009[4]	Masaaki Ueki, Takuya Taniyama
May 2009[5]	Yoshiharu Osaka, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium), Yasunori Ogura
August 2008	Masaaki Ueki, Kenro Kurasako
May 2008	Yoshiharu Osaka, Fujikiyo Omura (JKA Thailand), Nakata
August 2007	Masaaki Ueki,[6] Tomio Imamura[7]
May 2007	Masahiko Tanaka,[8] Kazuaki Kurihara[9]
April 2006	Yoshiharu Osaka,[10] Kobayashi, Osamu Aoki (JKA Spain)
May 2005	Hideo Tomita, Kazuhiro Sawada (JKA Belgium), Yoshiharu Osaka,[11] Takahashi
August 2004	Masaaki Ueki,[12] Tomio Imamura[13]

References

1. "JKA England (JKAE) - Japan Karate Association of England". Retrieved 1 January 2015.
2. http://www.jka-england.org/About/aboutjka.html. Retrieved February 22, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20060824105833/http://www.plymouthshotokan.co.uk/history.php. Archived from the original on August 24, 2006. Retrieved February 26, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "JKAE Summer Course 2009 Report". www.theshotokanway.com. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
5. "JKA Spring Course 2009". www.theshotokanway.com. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20080217210810/http://www.jka.or.jp/english/about/01_ueki.html. Archived from the original on February 17, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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9. https://web.archive.org/web/20080213000358/http://www.jka.or.jp/english/about/25_kurihara.html. Archived from the original on February 13, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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11. https://web.archive.org/web/20080126082755/http://www.jka.or.jp/english/about/04_osaka.html. Archived from the original on January 26, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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13. https://web.archive.org/web/20080131173838/http://www.jka.or.jp/english/about/09_imamura.html. Archived from the original on January 31, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)