Kenshukai Karate
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Kenshukai Karate is a "re-spawn" of Go-Kan-Ryu Karate-Do; it incorporates features of both the Goju-ryu and Shotokan styles of karate, and was founded by Shihan Adrian Sclanders in 1992. Originally founded in Australia, the style recently set up an organisation in the UK. Kenshukai Karate is a 'non-contact style' (although at the highest levels of it, students do engage in contact sparring), exactly like GKR. It started out as a splinter group from the larger, more influential GKR Karate. Like GKR it has red, black and white on its club badge, and has the same kata syllabus.
Kenshukai was formed when Sclanders unsuccessfully tried to wrest control of GKR from Robert Sullivan; he was later dismissed from GKR. Since that time major changes have taken place in Kenshukai, including many instructors being dismissed for failing police checks.
