Due to a recent pandemic-related hike in blood pressure--too much beer and pizza, not enough working out--Chris has re-committed to 20+ years of intensive martial arts training and practice, performing Yang Tai Chi and other kata regularly in his grassy front yard.

We'd like to find someone vaccinated to push hands with and continue exploring Tai-Chi Chin Na.

There (was) a Sifu teaching Gung-Fu in the Community Center, but we''d like to work with just a couple people at the most until the pandemics wane.

So, here's a picture of the man who gave me my black belt, Sensei Shihan-dai Ralph Rhoads, breaking 750 lbs. of ice with his fist at Bechtel Plaza in San Francisco. He also demonstrated Karate for many years at the Marin County Fair. His Phoenix dojo was recently closed, as Sensei wasn't able to find anyone qualified to take it over.

Sensei Ralph has retired at 75 and is taking better care of his knees, as he works out regularly on a Bowflex, and practices Iaido.

I spent five very happy and productive years in his dojo before Sensei moved to Arizona.

Enshin Karate was developed by Kancho Joko Ninomiya, who won the 1978 All Japan Karate do Championship.

I've also included links to my Tai-Chi, Aikido, and Kajukenbo training, including Sensei Don Buck's School of the Tiger Kyokushinkai dojo where I started.

There's a video of Chris demonstrating karate in Japantown for the 2000 Cherry Blossom Festival for Shihan Naohiro Tomiyama, who finished second in the All-Japan, in the Enshin Folder.