Kancho Takemasa Okuyama 8th dan in action

Kancho Takemasa Okuyama demonstrating how to throw your opponent during seminar in Warszawa (Poland) before the 7th World IKA Karate Championships in 1997. Assistant in the second half: JD Dolan, highly appraised author and college professor Takemasa Okuyama is the head of the International Karate Association of Canada and has the Kancho title. He began to train in Japan at the age of 7. In line with the family tradition, he practised sumo and judo. At the aged of 13 he started to learn karate fro