DARIO LONZA - Tecnical Coordinator of Shihan-Kai KISA
Black Belt 4. Dan
Before the training, while waiting to go into the dojo, we warmed up in the school hall on the floor that in winter wasn’t too comfortable I practised willingly because the movements are faster than in the other styles of the same discipline and I appreciated the shortness of competition present in the other schools. I particularly loved the seriousness of the practice and the application of the Budo, following the rules of the Sensei Murakami, and even though the trainings were hard and tiresome, I continued assiduously.
YEAR 1980 31 JANUARY exam for the brown belt
FEBRUARY I started the activity with Sensei Giorgio Vecchiet, Sensei Murakami’s untimely death and the Sensei Mileto’s persistent signs of wanting to change the style convince a sempai of this school to leave the TORA NO KAI school and to start to train by himself with the aim of not getting influenced by the fashion and of not abandoning the Shotokai style origins. Giorgio Vecchiet asked me to practice under his guidance. I accepted and we trained together for a certain period of time in a small garage in a house on the outskirts of Trieste. It was a very engaging time and, even if the room was very small (to perform the katas was quite hard) we often trained and my knowledge of this art was progressively increasing but maintaining and also reinforcing, thanks to the experience of the person who was guiding me, the philosophy and the technique of the traditional karate.
I took again contact with Sensei Vecchiet who had just opened his dojo in via Valmaura. It was a big joy to me to start again under his guidance.
It was a hard test preceded by a lot of months of daily trainings both in dojo and in the open air and with its 20 Katas Taikyoku Shodan performed on the first day of the stage only to be allowed to do the exam.
So hard was the exam, so deep was my happiness and my satisfaction when the Sensei gave me the so yearned black belt.
YEAR 1993 26 JULY exam for BLACK belt 2 DAN
YEAR 1997 29 JULY exam for BLACK belt 3 DAN
YEAR 2003 24 JULY exam for BLACK belt 4 DAN
YEAR 2005 28 JULY the new federation, founded by Sensei Vecchiet and the chairwoman P.Claut, was born.
After so many years passed in the IKDS Federation, Sensei Vecchiet, who was one of the founder members , decided to propose with many sacrifices and a great sense of responsibility to the assembly a new organisation of the Technical Board necessary to maintain the Murakami’s Shotokai style
A new Federation was born to which I’m happy to adhere sure that our Sensei’s experience and devotion will give a new strong impulse to the Karate’s practise.