WELCOME TO THE W.B.F / K.I.K.A / K.B.M.A WORLD GRANDMASTERS COUNCIL WE RECOGNIZE
ALL LEGITIMATE GRANDMASTERS FOUNDERS AND LEADERS OF THE MARTIAL ARTS TO BE
A MEMBER OF THE GRANDMASTERS COUNCIL YOU MUST HOLD A 7TH DAN OR HIGHER
IN A LEGITIMATE MARTIAL ART OR BE THE HEAD FOUNDER
OF A RECOGNIZED MARTIAL ART.
THESE GUIDELINES WERE PUT IN PLACE BY THE
PRESIDENT SOKE DAVID J KACPERSKI AND THE VICE PRESIDENT SOKE GEORGE T
ROSS
Any
one who is a
legitimate
founder of a martial art system is welcome to be added
to these pages for their country we do not discriminate against
age! please read below:
As for 40 year old Grandmasters, let me shed some light on this
subject. Bruce Lee was only in his
early 30s when he passed away, yet he was and is still highly
respected, yet he never earned a black belt. His art of Jeet Kune
Do is still practiced today by many and Bruce Lee is still admired
throughout the world. At
age 31, Hwang Kee combined Soo Bahk Do with the Chinese T'ang
method and developed Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan. At age 40, Mas Oyama established his
Kyokushinkai headquarters. Grandmaster
Kang Uk Lee of Tang Soo Do was a 6th Dan at the age of 29 and by the time he was 40 received
his 9th dan. From
the information I was able to gather, Grandmaster Ji, Han Jae of
Sin Moo Hapkido studied with Choi, Yong Sool from 1953 until 1956,
only three years before opening his own school, An Moo Kwan. In
1957, Ji held the rank of 3rd Dan in Yu Kwon Sool. Only six years
from his beginning with Choi, Ji Han Jae claims to have founded
Hapkido in 1959. And
lastly, how dare a 22 year old
with only a few years of study in Jiu-Jitsu found his own art and
call it Judo. Jigoro Kano was born in 1860, received instruction
in Jiu-Jitsu for the first time in 1877, and by 1882, he founded
Judo. By the time Kano was 40, Judo had come to enjoy great
popularity.
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