Instructors

 

Frederick Lohse III

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

 

 

 

David Nauss

David Sensei is a founding member of Kodokan Boston and has served as one of its head instructors since its inception in 1990.

He began training under Kimo Wall Sensei in 1983 while a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has been ranked godan by Kimo sensei. In the mid 80’s he traveled to Okinawa and studied with Matayoshi Shinpo Sensei and with Gibo Seki Sensei.

He has studied, taught and demonstrated Karate, Kobudo, and self defense in many places including Holland, the US and Japan.

He has briefly studied a variety of other martial arts and is known to spend hours practicing and discussing various aspects of Martial training with Fred Sensei, Corey Sensei and other training buddies.

 

Corey Tedrow

Corey sensei was introduced to Goju Ryu in 1990 and has been practicing it ever since. She began training under Giles Hopkins sensei while at UMass Amherst. In 1992 she started training and teaching with Kodokan Boston.

She trained kick-boxing for 9 months in 1999 while living in Dublin, Ireland - however, her primary training has been in Goju.

 

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.

Luckily, he has been able to train with the great folks at Kodokan Boston since his move. Mike currently is a sandan, and is employed as an environmental engineer in the Boston area.
   
 
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