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Dave Hazard (born 1952 in London) is a well known British 7th Dan Karateka and instructor of Shotokan karate and was one of the few students present at the very beginning of British Karate.〔(Shotokan Karate Magazine interview. August 1986 )〕 He is a former KUGB national champion and British team member. Like many of the early karateka he first trained in judo before starting karate〔(The Shotokan Way instructor profile )〕 in 1969 at the Blackfriers club in London, where he trained under Keinosuke Enoeda, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Kato〔Dave Hazard ''Born Fighter'' John Blake Publishing 2007 p35〕 and Takahashi.〔(Dartford SKC Profile )〕 In 1977 Hazard went to Japan where he studied in JKA instructor classes under Masatoshi Nakayama〔(ASK Instructor profile )〕 In 1982 Mick Dewey formed the South of England Karate Union (SEKU). Dewey had been good friends with Hazard for many years and in 1985 invited Hazard to join himself and Mervyn O'Donnell in The South of England Karate Union. At this time Hazard lived in Leyton, East London, and Dewey arranged for him to join the Brighton Karate Club (Dewey had formed the club with Phil Elliott in 1974). Hazard accepted the invitation and moved from London to Brighton where he ran the Club for nineteen years, serving as Technical Director and Grading Examiner to SEKU until he left and moved to Nottingham. Later The 'South of England Karate Union' was renamed The Shotokan of England Karate Union. The Brighton Karate Club is now run by Jess Lavender a 7th Dan. Hazard later left SEKU and is now the chief instructor of an international association in the form of the Academy of Shotokan Karate, which he founded in 2003,〔(Academy of Shotokan Karate Website )〕 feeling in need of an environment that would allow him personally to evolve his approach to Shotokan Karate-Do. He is assisted within the ASK by senior instructors and karate-ka like Jeff Westgarth, Jess Lavender, Simon Staples and Paul Herbert. He is also the former kata coach for the English national squad, due to the restructuring of the EKGB. He brings to many training courses his expertise in kata and their applications to differing situations. ==Early years== David Frederick Hazard was born in Bow, London, England, in 1952. His father's family owned a road haulage company and a public house, while his mother's family worked in the docks. At first the family lived in the upper two rooms of a four-room terraced house in Stepney, with a shared outside toilet. When Dave was seven the family moved Harlow new town in Essex, to a house with two inside toilets, space for everyone and a garden. A few years later when Dave was about thirteen however his parents separated and his mother took the children back to the east end of London to a flat in Leyton. While his mother worked hard to support them he went to Ruckholt Manor Secondary School, an old and tough place. Refusing to join a gang he was picked on by both sides. After a bad beating by a group of boys one day his mother took him round to their houses so that he could fight and beat them one at a time, after which he had little more trouble.〔Dave Hazard ''Born Fighter'' John Blake Publishing 2007 p15〕 Not being a model student he had a regular Friday afternoon appointment with the headmaster for a caning. On one occasion the drama teacher challenged Dave to a fight for disrupting his classes and gave him a beating. The following day he took Dave out to the pub for a beer and advised him to use his brains constructively. On another occasion a teacher who had beaten a boy about the head causing temporary blindness was thrown out of a second floor window by older boys, breaking his legs and hips.〔Dave Hazard ''Born Fighter'' John Blake Publishing 2007 p22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Hazard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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