Four New Zealand exponents of Seido Karate are in the- final stages of training before leaving next week for the annual black belt seminar at their world headquarters in New York. Sensei Renzie Hanham is shown making a defensive
block as another member of the Christchurch branch, Michael Drew,, aged 20, launches a flying kick; at their Barbadoes Street dojo last evening. For the first time most of the senior Seido instructors from all round the world,
including those from South Africa and Jamaica, will attend the five-week seminar. Hahham, as a fifth dan the senior instructor in the world outside the United States, is making his fifth trip to New York and he has also trained
in Japan. Drew, a first dan, will be making his first trip. The Christchurch pair will be accompanied to New York by two other South Island exponents of Seido, Andy Barber (Nelson), a fifth dan, and Murray Creighton (Reefton), a first dan.
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