My name is Steve Lonsdale and I have created this web site to promote dialogue, share information and create interest in Japanese martial arts and culture. I began studying Shotokan Karatedo in Canada in 1973. My instructors names were Kim Hooi Wong and Ross Smith. We belonged to the Shotokan Karate Association of Malaysia. I achieved the rank of Nidan and started a dojo in Goderich, Ontario. It is still active today in nearby Clinton, Ontario and is run by Lance Anderson, Nidan.

Page author, Steve Lonsdale, performs yoko tobi geri

I also studied Jujutsu and my instructor was Dan Krupa, a Metropolitan Toronto Police Officer. I achieved the rank of Nidan. The style of jujutsu was eclectic and can be seen in a series of books authored by Professor Robert Clark, president of the World JuJutsu Federation. His partner, Professor Richard Morris, split from that organization and now heads the World Kobudo Federation.

Phil Bradley, Dan Krupa, Fred Brown and page author, Steve Lonsdale.

In 1990, I began the study of Hakkoryu JuJutsu and traveled to Japan in 1993. It was then I trained and tested for Shodan under the son of the founder of Hakkoryu, Nidai Soke Ryuho Okuyama. I spent a year in Ohio, at the Eighth Light (U.S. Honbu) Dojo studying under Menkyo Kaiden Shihan Sandaikichu Michael J. LaMonica, the highest ranked non-oriental practitioner of Hakkoryu. I attained the rank of Sandan.

As a Correctional Officer in Canada, I was certified as an instructor in the Koga Method of Self Defense and I also was a certified instructor in Pressure Point Control Tactics. After 18 years of being a Correctional Officer, I moved to New Jersey.

I am currently developing a syllabus of practical self-defense, rooted in Japanese culture, but responsive to the needs of modern society. The system grew out of a series of seminars I have been teaching since 1987.

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