Gojukan Dojo Instructors
Mikinosuke Kawaishi
Kawaishi was born in Kyoto in 1899 and having studied judo and jujutsu at the Dai Nippon Butokukai (Greater Japan Association of Martial Virtue). He left Japan in the mid-1920s to travel and see the world and began by touring the United States of America, teaching jujitsu particularly in New York and San Diego. By 1928 he had arrived in the United Kingdom and soon established a school in Liverpool...
Heribert Czerwenka-Wenkstetten
Shihan Heribert Czerwenka-Wenkstetten born 1932 in Vienna. Jujitsu Training began 1947 in Vienna with prof.Franza Rautek'ai Baron Klinger, Klingerstorf. Later, trained in Paris with Miknosuke Kawaishi, Noritomo Otani, Tadashi Abe, Tokyo Hirano and Nobuyoshi Sato. Since 1952, he studied medicine, specializing in psychiatry and neurology, neuropsychiatry of children and adolescents. Graduate Institu...
Tommy Thomson
I started Jujitsu in 1973 where I trained under Wikus Otto the instructor at the Sunnyside Jujitsu Club. When I received my Shodan I opened a club in Kilner Park, Pretoria. I ran two clubs, one in Kilner Park and the other in Garsfontein, Pretoria. I instructed at the Kilner Park club until I handed it over to my student Michael Nel, who still instructs there. The Garsfontein club has been taken o...
Jonathan Thomson
I started practising Jujitsu in 1988 at the young age of 5. In 2000 I was promoted to Shodan through the South African Ju-Jitsu Federation (SAJJF), where I started assisting Sensei Jeanetta at Amateur Ju-Jitsu Club. In 2002 I received my Nidan and Shihan Tommy Thomson passed his Club, Gojukan Jujitsu, over to me.
I have represented the South African Provincial and National Team on numerous occasi...
