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This is a book you will not only be glad you purchased but which you will be happy to recommend to your colleagues.

Bill Hayes

Major, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired)

“Old Student” of Okinawan Shobayashi-ryū Karate-dō

Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

Fig. 1: Donn F. Draeger.

In each of my previous books – Okinawa Dento Karate-do, Karate Kata no Rekishi and Okinawan Bo-jutsu – my autobiographical notice is rather long, so I want to make it short in this one.

I was born in July, 1949, in Malaysia. I was brought up in a middle class family. At a very young age, I started learning the Indian martial arts of Silambam and Vajramushti. Later, I was taught “Western” boxing at the British army camp with which my father was associated.

After Malaysia’s independence from the British, I started weight training, and soon, got into karate. Due to circumstances, I was forced to change styles. I trained Shitō-ryū, Shōtōkan, Keishinkan, Budōkan, Gōjū-ryū, and a mix-up of the Malaysian Shōrin-ryū Seibukan Karate. I later changed the latter style to the “orthodox” Okinawan Shōrin-ryū Seibukan under the tutelage of Shimabukuro Zenpo Sensei. It is to this style that I still belong.