Instructors

Fred sensei began training under Kimo Wall sensei in 1986, while a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While living in Kagoshima, Japan in the early 1990s, he trained under Sakai Ryugo sensei, a student of Matayoshi Shinpo and Higa Seiko in the 50’s and 60’s. He has visited Okinawa a number of times, and studied with the late Matayoshi Shinpo sensei, with different members of

Matayoshi sensei’s Kodokan and Higa Seiko sensei’s Shodokan, and in a number of other Goju dojo.

Other martial arts experience includes limited training in Aikido, fencing, Kyokushinkai, Judo, Kali, Uechi Ryu, and 6 months training in Jigen Ryu Hyoho, in Kagoshima. He has taught seminars on Goju Ryu and Matayoshi Kobudo in Japan, Holland, Canada, Great Britain, and around the US, and has written on the social and cultural aspects of martial arts training.

He has been ranked godan by Kimo sensei. He joined the Boston dojo in 1993, and acts as the dojo’s chief instructor. He also does other stuff besides training, but if you want to know about any of that, you have to ask

She has taught karate and self defense seminars in the Cambridge area since 1993, and has been ranked yondan by Kimo Wall sensei.

When she is not training karate (or working on this web site), she can be found in Somerville frequenting one of it's many coffee shops.

Seniors

Mike Piscitello

Mike Larimore

Mike began training American Kempo in 1989. In 1996, he began undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During his first semester, he was introduced to Goju-Ryu Karate during a physical education class taught by Giles Hopkins-sensei and soon decided to train with the Kodokan dojo which offered additional instruction.

In 1999, Mike earned the rank of sho-dan and continued to train with the Amherst/Northampton dojo until he moved to Boston in 2001.