Friday, January 30, 2009

Looking for a Uechi dojo!

Hi George,

I met you about 12 years ago in New Hampshire. I was training with Nancy Gavenda at the time. I also read your book around 1960!

I'm living in New Jersey nowadays, and I can't find any Uechi-Ryu folks to train with. Any ideas? Would appreciate any suggestions you might have!

Tim Dalton
Dalton Print Consulting

1 comment:

George said...

Dear Tim:

There are several fine Uechi practitioners living and teaching in the New Jersey area. Nancy Simoneschi is most familiar with their contact info, so I'm passing your email along to her, and I'm sure she'll be getting in touch.

Also, though he's not formally teaching there, I understand that Bruce Hirabayashi, another fine Uechi karate-ka who in former years through his teaching in Germany helped spread Uechi in Europe, is now working (and living during weekdays) in northern New Jersey. For info as to how to reach him -- in the event that he's closer to you than the others and is in a position to work out -- you could contact Bob Kaiser whose email address is as follows: rkaiserdc@aol.com.

Good luck and best wishes,

Dave Finkelstein