MARTIAL ARTS SPECIALIST IN STRATFORD (E15 & E20), EAST LONDON & ILFORD (IG1), SEVEN KINGS (IG3) & GANTS HILL (IG2), ESSEX.

THE BEGINNINGS

The Poon brothers started their training in 1982 and later taught in the late eighties to the mid- nineties assisting Sensei Alan Clemens at the Blue Dragon Karate Association. Sensei Alan Clemens was a direct student of Hanshi Hirokazu Kanazawa (one of the first Japanese Karate Master to teach in England) in the 1960s and 70s at the legendary ‘Blackfriars Dojo’. The first student of the Poon brothers was in Italy, Rome in 1990. In 1994, Poon Dojo was established in Stratford where the headquarters still remain to this day.

OUR TRADITION

In addition to being trained and graded by Sensei Alan Clemens the Poon brothers have also trained and been graded by high ranking international teachers including Shihan Chris Rowan (high ranking Goju Ryu master) and Hanshi (Grand Master of old style ‘Koryu Uchinadi’ Karate) Patrick McCarthy who awarded Ko Poon one of his Dan grades (black belt). It is the tradition from these lineages that is continued today at Poon Dojo.

POON DOJO & HANSHI PATRICK MCCARTHY

Sifu Ko with Hanshi Patrick McCarthy taken at the Curtain Road dojo in the mid to late nineties. Hanshi Patrick McCarthy is known in the Karate community/society as one of the most prominent Karate historians. He is also the founder to Koryukan or Koryu Uchinadi, a Karate system based on Hanshi McCarthy’s extensive research in Japan, Okinawa and China to unlock and decode the modern day interpretation of Karate providing life protection skills.  

Link to Hanshi Patrick McCarthy’s website: http://www.koryu-uchinadi.com/the-koryukan/