![]() Center for SafeSport is designated under federal law) Instructor Certification Rigan Machado Jiu Jitsu 3rd degree Black Belt, Behavior Change Specialization (BCS), AFAA (aerobics and Fitness Association of America) NCSF (National Council on Strength & Fitness) NASM (National Academy of sports medicine) NASM CES (Corrective Exercise specialist) NASM PES (Performance EnhancementSpecialist) CPR, AED ( American Heart Association), SafeSport certified (The U.S. He has a wide range of references and testimonials which speak to his results. His broad range of techniques gleaned from both his study of fitness and martial arts, allows him to uniquely tailor his personal training for each client and their needs. Nobuo teaches his clients “functional fitness” whereby clients learn movement patterns that are powerful, efficient and that mitigate the risk of injury- in other words, how to optimally use their bodies. He has trained professional athletes, celebrities, military and police officers, bouncers, personal trainers and MMA fighters… as well as moms looking to get back in shape, weekend warriors, grandmas and kids. In addition to teaching martial arts, Nobuo is a certified Master trainer at the gym where he trains a wide variety of clientele with varying needs and goals. He has gone on to win many championships and his talent is highly respected by many professional fighters. ![]() With the addition of jiu jitsu and these ground grappling moves, he filled in the last piece of his fighting game and transformed himself into the martial artist he is today. These insights led him naturally to the study of jiu jitsu. He had already been introduced to submission techniques, such as joint locks, by his university professor and instructor of Aiki jiu-jitsu, Kiyokazu Maebayashi. After the fight, and upon reflection, he came to realize the importance of ground defense skills, or grappling. The fight quickly ended up on the ground. He was teaching and trained for two years, gaining life-changing insights into the importance of attitude and discipline in the practice of martial arts.ĭuring his apprenticeship, a challenger entered the dojo who Nobu was forced to fight. He used this expertise to become the 1997 Japanese National Sanda (shoot boxing) Full- Contact Kung Fu Champion.Īfter graduating from university in 2000 with a BA in law and international relations, Karate brought Nobuo to the United States, where he trained and served as a full-time Karate apprentice at the elite Full Contact Karate International headquarters. ![]() In order to deepen his study and understanding of karate, he traveled throughout Asia, training with some of the world’s top martial arts experts, including a world-champion boxer, a Muay Thai champion, and a police kung fu instructor. At 16, he began to study full-contact karate under world Kyokushin champion Makato Nakameura. While we have been devoted to promoting a different Japanese martial art, we have developed mutual respect to each other and forged a strong friendship between us over the past 40+ years, and I very much look forward to our flouring friendship with him in the years to come.Professor Nobuo Yagai has been studying martial arts since he was six years old, beginning his training with Kendo, or Samurai swordsmanship. ![]() Joko Ninomiya Kancho, the founder of Enshin Karate, and I came to Denver at about same time decades ago. How fast time flies!Īlso, another former uchideshi at Enshin Karate Headquarters, Yajima Sensei, a regional director for Shizuoka, Japan and his son will be competing in the tournament. This year, he has brought his daughter with him as she will compete in the tournament. Tetsuji Hayashi Sensei, a team leader and the Head Master of Enshin Karate Japan, was an uchideshi at Enshin Karate Headquarters in Denver from 1992 for 3 years, and he has been devoting himself to further promote Enshin Karate in Japan ever since he returned to Japan.įor the past 10 years, Hayashi Sensei has brought his disciples from Japan to stay at Nippon Kan every year for pre-tournament conditioning before the annual WORLD SABAKI CHALLENGE. A team of 15 Enshin Karate members from Japan stayed at Nippon Kan again this year to participate in this year’s WORLD SABAKI CHALLENGE which will take place on April 21.
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