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Chief Instructor, Sensei Jim Palmer, began
his martial arts career in 1959, practicing Judo on into his early teens and, at the age
of twenty two, he returned to the martial arts to study Shotokan Karate-do and
was also a student of traditional Aikido under the auspices of the British
Aikikai. During the ensuing thirty years he has been fortunate to train with
many noteable Japanese Instructors such as Senseis Kanazawa, Asano, Enoeda, Kato, Kasuya,
Ichihara, Tsuyama, Ochi, Kase, Shirai, Kawasoe, Masuda, Oumura and Aikido Senseis Chiba and
Murashige etc. to name only a few. He has also taught in such countries as Japan,
U.S.A.,Kenya, India, Nepal and Spain. In 1988, he travelled to Japan experiencing Muay Thai
(Thai Boxing) in Bangkok and Tai Chi in Hong Kong on his way to train at the honbu dojo
(headquarters) in Tokyo. Whilst in Japan, Sensei Jim travelled the country training at any dojo
along the way and in such places as Tokyo, Kamakura, Osaka, Hiroshima etc.
A student of Kanazawa Kancho for well in excess of twenty years, Sensei Palmer currently holds the
grade of Rokudan (6th Dan) personally awarded to him by Kanazawa Kancho, he is also an Internationally
registered Grading Examiner on behalf of S.K.I.F. Tokyo.
email: jimpalmer@skif.co.uk
| Our Instructors are required to have a minimum of ten years
experience of karate-do, displayed the desire and ability to communicate the discipline, techniques,
philosophies and benefits of traditional Shotokan Karate-do in a manner consistent with S.K.I.F.
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CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS 1ST January, 2006
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Chief Instructor -
Jim Palmer (6th Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Senior Instructor -
Mike Bowles (4th Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Senior Instructor -
Anne C. Palmer (3rd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Senior Instructor -
Martin J. Hislop (3rd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Senior Instructor -
Tom Russell (3rd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Club Instructor -
Mike Russell (3rd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Instructor -
Morag J. Smith (2nd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Instructor -
Craig Wilson (2nd Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Assistant Instructor -
Brian McKie (1st Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Assistant Instructor -
Graham Nimmo (1st Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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Assistant Instructor -
Alan Scobbie (1st Dan) S.K.I.F. |
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International Representative (India) -
Satnam Singh Happy,
Chief Instructor Shotokan Karate Institute S.K.I.F. |
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