WORLD BUDOKAN KARATE FOUNDATION. (WBKF)
BUDOKAN THE HISTORY OF KARATE BUDOKAN INTERNATIONAL The following is a brief and interesting story about the founder of Karate Budokan International and the origins of the style we practice today. Mr. Chew Choo Soot was born on the 7th of February 1922. At the age of 15 he became interested in and involved in weight lifting and fitness training. He became the Malaysian national weightlifting champion in 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942. He was introduced to the art of “Karate-Do” at the age of twenty during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Mr Chew made it on to the cover of a local publication and was contracted by a Japanese military officer to be his personal fitness coach. During one of the scheduled visits the young Mr Chew discovered the officer practicing movements, which we now know to be Kata, the styles practiced by the officer were Keishinkan and Shotokan. Mr chew was impressed and asked for tuition, the officer agreed. The founders of Karate Budokan International were Mr Che...