Meet our instructors
Chief Instructor
Sensei Hkanhpa Sadan
Sensei Hkanhpa is 3rd Dan All Japan Karate-Do Seiwakai; 3rd Dan JKF Gojukai. Prior to training in Goju Ryu karate, Sensei Hkanhpa trained for many years in Kyokushin, achieving his black belt in Burma, and teaching from his teens at Myitkyina YMCA. He is also a founder and secretary of the Kachin Relief Fund, a registered charity in the UK, which promotes karate as physical education for Kachin internally displaced camps. You can learn more about this at https://kachinrelief.org.uk.
other instructors
Sensei simon beaufoy
Sensei Simon is 1st Dan All Japan Karate-Do Seiwakai; 1st Dan JKF Gojukai. Prior to training in Goju Ryu karate, Sensei Hkanhpa trained in Shotokan karate.
sensei charlie lovell
Sensei Charlie is 1st Dan All Japan Karate-Do Seiwakai. Prior to training in Goju Ryu Karate under Shihan Paul Coleman, Sensei Charlie trained in Shotokan karate.
previous chief instructor
Shihan Paul Coleman
Shihan Paul was 8th Dan All Japan Karate-Do Seiwakai; 7th Dan JKF Gojukai. In his youth he trained in Judo for 11 years, achieving his black belt. He started training with Oxford Karate Academy, then run by James Rousseau, in 1974, and started teaching in 1975, taking over responsibility for all teaching in the 1980s. Shihan Paul competed, trained and taught internationally, and was European and World Champion in Iri-Kumi. He passed away from cancer in Katharine House Hospice on 31 August 2023.
