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| Brian Hinchliffe 7th Dan Goju Ryu Karate DNBK Kyoto, Japan. 5th Dan Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai Jutsu (Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, Kyoto, Japan). |
| Brian is the chief Instructor to his own group in the U.K. The Ho-Ei Juku. A group that practises the arts of Japan in the traditional way. He achieved his 7th Dan at the Honbu of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai in Kyoto Japan. Having well over 30 years training experience behind him, both at home and in Japan. Initially he started training in Judo in 1972, moving over to Shotokan Karate a few years later. However, a move to France led him to take up the challenge of ring fighting in Vietnamese Boxing. This was followed by a search through the Martial Arts of Japan before finally discovering Goju Ryu Karate. |
| There then followed a number of years training with the most senior Goju Ryu practitioners in the UK at the time. Then the later few years of the eighties,and in to the early nineties, were spent in serious training in Japan. The Master of the Goju Ryu group in Kyoto, the Seishikan, was Kancho Heiji Tada 8th Dan. Who arranged for Brian to live at the Obaku- San Mampuku -Ji Temple. This daily life and training at the Mampuku -Ji changed Brian's whole out look on life and the Martial Arts. Studying the Chinese forms of Chi Gung, and health exercises such as the Eight Pieces of Brocade. Whilst in Japan, Brian also had the good fortune to have met and been accepted as a student by Sensei Masakatsu Morinaka 8th Dan. He is the president of Ehime branch of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, and holds a Menkyo Kaiden in Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai Jutsu. |
| Brian has been an adviser and friend to the Shinken Dojo for many years now. Who's advice, tuition, and guidance has been invaluable to our development in Japanese Goju Ryu Karate and the Japanese Martial Arts generally. |
HO (Treasure)
EI (England)
JUKU (Training School)
Guest Instructor / Adviser
| Glyn Jones and the Shinken Dojo have over the years relied heavily on forming close relationships with various instructors and teachers. Not in a way so we just bring in different people to teach for us every week or month or so. As we feel this is counter productive. But by forming a close friendship and Dojo bond over many years, between ourselves and a teacher who has specific areas of the Fighting Arts as a speciality to offer. This way both the members of the Dojo and the instructor will benefit, as their methods are taken on board at the highest levels and come to fruitation. No difference really to the traditions of most fighting arts, where by teachers sent their students off, to be taught, or to learn different skills from specialised teachers. |
| Shinken Dojo Okinawa Goju Ryu Karate |
