Our club is a newly joined the BC branch of the ISKF. We get access to all the visiting high-level instructors that come to give seminars. We’ve already had 9th Dan Yaguchi-Sensei, and Kline Sensei, a 7th. In June, Yaguchi is back, and in the fall, we get 10th Dan Okazaki. This is very cool, but why are they so nice to BC? We don’t really have a big population here, so why do they bother so much with little old us?
I counted up all the ISKF Dojos in the States, and it turns out they have 180. In the entire USA they have less than ten times as many clubs as BC. Yikes! It seems we’re pretty big.
In fact, only two states have more clubs than BC. The biggest is Pennsylvania, which has 32. This makes sense. The association’s leader, 10th Dan Okazaki, is based there. The state also has 3 times BC’s population. For our population, we actually have more clubs.
The other state with more clubs than BC is California, which has 23. That’s only 3 more than BC, and California has a population greater than the entire country of Canada.
The other 48 states average less than 3 clubs each. Many have none at all.
No wonder they like being nice to BC.
And I’m here, of course.
I am a 68 year old retired teacher living on the west coast of Canada. I spent over 30 years as a student of Karate until my knees stopped liking it. My current passionate activity is Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, which I've been at for about 13 years.
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