Sensei Enoeda "The Tiger" - Rare Footage (1966)

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This rare footage is filmed in Seften Park, Liverpool in 1966, when Sensei Enoeda first came to Britain. Andy Sherry, Terry O'Neill and Bob Poynton are among the students training with Sensei Enoeda.

Sensei Keinosuke "The Tiger" Enoeda (1935-2003)

Sensei Keinosuke Enoeda was born in Kyushu, an island in the South of Japan, on July 4th 1935. A strong and natural athlete, he initially took up baseball, kendo, and judo, as did many of his contemporaries - these being the popular sports in Japan at that time. He proved particularly adept at Judo, and by the age of 16 he had reached 2nd Dan. However, as is often the way, fate guided him to a demonstration by two top Karate exponents from the famous Takashoku University. The two Karateka, Senseis Irea and Okazaki, so impressed him, that there and then, he decided to channel his energy into Karate.

He enrolled at Takashoku University, joined the Karate section, and within two years was the proud holder of Shodan. Another two years found him Club Captain.

One his teachers was the great Master and founder of modern Shotokan Karate, Funakoshi Gichin, whose instruction and advice is still a source of inspiration to him to this day.

He graduated with a degree in economics before joining the JKA instructors class which he attended for three years, during which time his main instructor was Sensei Nakayama. He also trained with many of the top Sensei of other schools and styles of Karate. It was this quality of instruction, combined with a fiercesome determination, which moulded Sensei Enoeda into one of Japan's finest ever competitors and instructors.

After achieving his aim of becoming JKA Champion, Sensei began to receive invitations to instruct in various countries - Indonesia, South Africa, Hawaii - and eventually joined his friend, Hirokazu Kanazawa, to instruct in England.

So it was, that in 1966, Sensei Enoeda found himself in a place called Liverpool, where he was to spend some considerable time. He had a flat in Percy Street, in Liverpool City Centre, close to the Anglican Cathedral, and his transport was a bright orange Volkswagen Beetle.

He was instructing full-time at the Liverpool Red Triangle Dojo, and the quality of instruction and the spirit he engendered was soon to bring the club competition success. If you were there in those early days, you would have found it difficult not to be inspired by the intensity of his coaching. No less inspirational was the intensity of his training - every morning at 7am in Sefton Park he would meet with a small group of students and train with them, showing by example that even All-Japan champions need to make training part of the daily lives. These students included Andy Sherry, Terry O'Neill, Bob Poynton and Bill Christall.

Thus, Sensei's 'way' has permeated through to KUGB Club Instructors and to the current generation of Junior and Senior Squad members, and goes a long way to explaining the high standards of Karate within the KUGB.

When he went to Australia for the World JKA Championships in 1989, he would have the British Squad out training every morning at 7am. Sensei would talk about how his life had changed since he had left Japan to teach in England in 1966. He confessed that he had worried about the changes he would have to face - both in culture and climate - something he had not experienced so much when, for example, he was teaching in Hawaii. The climate there is similar to the Summer months of Japan, and there is a long established Japanese community.

At first he found English food strange - he could not believe we make a pudding from rice! - and the British weather! What did emerge from the conversation however was that he had grown to love the British people and their culture, and that he was so proud to be Chief Instructor to the KUGB.

He was once asked was he getting used to British food and he replied "of course! I feel that now I AM British!".

Sensei married in England in 1969, and lived in Kingston, Surrey, with his wife Reiko. His two children, Daisuke and Maya have both graduated from university and are working in England.

Sensei lived as an English gentleman, whilst developing the KUGB and on his behalf we will continue to work to make the KUGB even stronger.

Sensei would have it no other way.

Please note I am not the editor of the above - this was copied from a site in tribute to Sensei Enoeda.

Thank you

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• shotokan
• karate-do
• sensei
• keinosuke
• endoeda
• JKA
• KUGB

[MishkinSan]

SUNDOME спасибо за отличные ролики !!!

[Sundome1]

@MishkinSan Спасибо

[icehockeyboy1]

Is that Terry O Neil in the vid, the one with the lightest hair?

[Sundome1]

Yes

[Bassai]

notice they all have the same pants? except the guy furthest back. wonder why...

[Sundome1]

@Bassai Maybe the shop had run out!!!

[janaxel1]

Two tactically different kicks. One is offensive, the other the opposite. You may want to hit an oncoming opponent and then go back. Response kick.

[icehockeyboy1]

Thanks Sundome, back in the halcyon days of The Red Triangle if I;m not mistaken.

[quakk]

I had the privilage of training with Terry O'neil (whom is in this video) for 10 Years. Biggest regret giving up martial arts.

[tinnochka1]

Такая хуйня

[78a67]

Liverpool 1980: Shotokan is by far the dominant style in the city, practised everywhere, even at far-flung places like the Bridgefield Forum in Huyton. There was however, a Goju club at the YMCA, a small Kyokushin club at the University, and even one unconventional Wado club at a church hall in the outskirts.There was, of course, a Shotokan club at the University, usually tought by Darryl Lyman of S. Africa. I often wonder what has become of Mr. Lyman. Anybody?

[PnutButter1986]

I would have felt so blessed to have trained with these people - before Karate became a commercial enterprise

[ndileonardo]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has an awkward time doing a front snap kick in sneakers...

[BodomChildBreeder]

will be graded by sensei sherry tonight for my 7th kyu.. what a privellige - watching this video is surreal as he is shown becoming one of Shotokans most (if not the) most respected and experienced non japanese practitioner.... before i was even born

[nostatus]

Was 110% that it was Jimmy Brennan but thinking about I now, I most likely is Bob Poynton.

[mrthebillman]

Japanese. Slow.

[WarriorBoy]

@AndrewTooyak: I say this all the time about martial arts!!! Yes!

[Bassai]

That's the same front kick that Anderson Silva used to knock out Vitor Belfort.