Liverpool NSW

Meet Our Instructors

The head Instructor of Yoseikan-Ryu Karate NSW is Abdul Zahra.

• 5th Dan Black Belt

• Graded by Chief Instructor of Yoseikan-Ryu Karate Australia, Branco Bratich

• Practicing Karate for over 35 years

• Karate NSW State coach 2010 – Present

• Australian Karate Federation National team representative

• NSW Karate Federation State team representative

• Coach of multiple national and state champions

We offer age-specific classes and within all age groups, we offer beginner, intermediate and advanced classes. This enables us to provide personalized instruction in small class groups.

Our professionally trained and highly qualified Instructors provide the ultimate martial arts learning experience to our students.

Our instructors receive ongoing training to ensure that they provide the highest quality experience for every student in every one of our classes.

Our programs provide a fun, disciplined environment that helps your child reap the many benefits available from Karate training.

Learning martial arts at Yoseikan-Ryu Karate is life transforming! This is done through driving children and adults whether male or female, to achieve their complete potential. Not just in the art of karate or in their physical aspects, but also in critical life skills such as discipline, focus, self-confidence, self-defense and much more. Yoseikan-Ryu karate runs classes for men, women and children of all ages and levels of ability at the Liverpool Whitlam Leisure Centre.

Yoseikan-Ryu Karate (養正館流空手 – literally “House of Honesty and Education”),  is the name given to the variant of Shotokan Karate taught at the Yoseikan Dojo in Shizuoka, Japan, under the direction of Minoru Mochizuki (望月 稔 Mōchizuki Minoru, 1907–2003).

Minoru Mochizuki trained directly under Gichin Funakoshi, the man who formally introduced Karate to the Japanese mainland in 1921. In the 1970s, Minoru Mochizuki formally organised his arts into Yoseikan Budo.

Our style stems back to the early 1900’s involving many different styles of martial arts including; karate, aikido, judo, Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, jujutsu, kobudo, iaido, kendo, jojutsu, and kempo.

We also extended the style and included self defence suited to our day and age.

The Chief Instructor for Yoseikan in Australia is Branco Bratich, 9th Dan. Branco, who, with the assistance of his senior instructors, has built Yoseikan-Ryu Karate into an Australia-wide organisation. Branco opened his first club at the Girrawheen Recreation Centre in Perth in 1978.