Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate & Kobudo

International Stage WOF 2026
Czech Republic

25 – 27 September 2026 Prague

A three-day international seminar with two masters of the World Oshukai Federation: sensei Maurice Roggero and sensei Alexander Staniszew.

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VenueSportovní Centrum Juliska, Prague 6
DisciplinesKarate · Kobudo
ForAll grades · kyu & dan

Organizers

About the seminar

The seminar is organized by the Czech Federation of Okinawa Karate and Kobudo under the patronage of the World Oshukai Federation — the international body founded by hanshi Kenyu Chinen, 10th dan.

Czech Federation of Okinawa Karate and Kobudo

The Czech Federation of Okinawa Karate and Kobudo (ČFOKK) was founded to officially represent the World Oshukai Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate Do Kobudo Federation in the Czech Republic — teaching and spreading the original techniques and training methods of traditional Okinawan martial arts, alongside Okinawan culture, ethics and the cultivation of physical and mental health.

The founder, president and head instructor of ČFOKK is renshi Jan Kopecký, a direct student of the Okinawan grandmaster hanshi Kenyu Chinen. ČFOKK runs clubs in several Czech cities led by certified instructors who regularly continue their training under both the head instructor and sensei Chinen himself.

World Oshukai Federation

The World Oshu-Kai Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate Do Kobudo Federation (WOF) is an international non-profit organization spreading two traditional Okinawan martial arts: Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate and Okinawa Matayoshi Kobudo.

Founded by hanshi Kenyu Chinen (10th dan Karate, 9th dan Kobudo) — a student of the great 20th-century Okinawan masters Shuguro Nakazato, Katsuya Miyahira and Shinpo Matayoshi — WOF brings together more than 250 dojos in 25 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Okinawa. Its world headquarters is the honbu dojo in Naha, Okinawa, Japan.

Sensei

Instructors

Two senior masters of the World Oshukai Federation will lead all sessions across the three days.

Sensei Maurice Roggero

Sensei Maurice Roggero

Hanshi · 9th dan Shorin-Ryu Karate · 8th dan Okinawa Kobudo

Sensei Maurice began karate in 1972 at the age of 16 in a Shotokan club in northern Marseille, earning his shodan in 1981. In 1976 he met master Kenyu Chinen at an Okinawan Kobudo workshop in Port-Leucate, France, and from then on attended regular summer camps with him in Thonon-les-Bains.

In 1984 he received his shodan in Kobudo directly from master Chinen, and in 1986 — convinced that Shorin-Ryu Karate suited his body better than Shotokan — he committed fully to master Chinen's curriculum and joined the World Oshukai Federation. That same year master Chinen brought him to Okinawa, where he trained for two months in the dojos of master Matayoshi and master Miyahira.

After returning to France he opened Okinawa Te Club Phocéen in Marseille, and in 2019 founded Okinawa Te Club Nîmes. Today sensei Maurice is President of O-Shu France and Vice-President of the World Oshukai Federation.

Sensei Alexander Staniszew

Sensei Alexander Staniszew

Hanshi · 9th dan Shorin-Ryu Karate · 7th dan Okinawa Kobudo

Born in Sofia in 1955, sensei Alexander Staniszew has practised karate since 1970 and is the man who first introduced original Okinawan Karate and Kobudo to Poland in 1981. A direct student of hanshi Kenyu Chinen, he also studied karate under master Katsuya Miyahira — a holder of the status of "Living National Treasure of Japan".

He has taken part in more than 150 international training events — ten of them in Okinawa — and has taught seminars in Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Japan and Canada. He introduced Shorin-Ryu Karate to the Czech Republic, Ireland and India, and has produced over three hundred black belts.

Sensei Staniszew is President of the Polish Union of Shorin-Ryu Karate Kobudo and Secretary General of the World Oshukai Federation. For his contribution to karate he has been honoured by the World Karate Committee under the Governor of Okinawa (1997), and by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Silver (2002) and Gold (2013) Crosses of Merit.

Program

Schedule

Karate and Kobudo sessions across all three days. All lessons led jointly by sensei A. Staniszew and sensei M. Roggero.

Friday 25 September
Karate 17:30 – 18:45 Open lesson · 1st–7th dan
Kobudo 19:00 – 20:00 1st–7th dan · sansetsukon, timbe, kwe
Saturday 26 September
Karate 14:30 – 16:00 kyu & dan groups
Kobudo 16:30 – 18:00 kyu (bo) · dan (bo, eku)
Sunday 27 September
Karate 09:00 – 10:30 kyu & dan groups
Kobudo 11:00 – 12:30 kyu (sai, nunchaku) · dan (sai, kama)

Where

Venue

Sportovní Centrum Juliska

Pod Juliskou 1805/4
160 00 Praha 6 – Dejvice
Czech Republic

The venue sits in the Dejvice quarter of Prague, easily reached by public transport from the city centre. Tram and metro line A (Dejvická / Hradčanská stations) bring you within a short walk.

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Participation

Seminar fees

Three participation options. Final prices are being confirmed and will be published here shortly.

Karate only

TBD

  • All three Karate sessions
  • Fri 25 · Sat 26 · Sun 27
  • kyu & dan grades
Recommended

Karate + Kobudo

TBD

  • Full seminar — all six sessions
  • Best value
  • kyu & dan grades

Kobudo only

TBD

  • All three Kobudo sessions
  • Fri 25 · Sat 26 · Sun 27
  • kyu & dan grades

Prices and payment details will be announced together with the registration form. Please check back soon.

Sign up

Registration

Registration will open via an online form. Please use the link below once it becomes available, or contact us by e-mail in the meantime.

Open registration form

Form coming soon — for now, write to gasshuku@shuri-te.cz.

Stay

Accommodation

We will publish a list of recommended hotels and hostels near the venue closer to the event. In the meantime, the Dejvice and Prague 6 area offers many options at various price points within easy reach of Sportovní Centrum Juliska.

Get in touch

Contact

E-mail gasshuku@shuri-te.cz Phone +420 608 764 647 Organizer website shuri-te.cz