Dave Hazard
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Dave Hazard | |
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Born | [Canning Town], England |
Style | Karate |
Teacher(s) | Keinosuke Enoeda, Hirokazu Kanazawa |
Rank | 7th dan karate |
Notable students | Ady Gray (6th dan) |
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Dave Hazard (born 1952 in
In 1977 Hazard went to Japan where he studied in Japan Karate Association (JKA) instructor classes under Masatoshi Nakayama.[5]
In 1982 Mick Dewey formed the South of England Karate Union (SEKU). Dewey had been good friends with Hazard for many years and in 1985 invited Hazard to join himself and Mervyn O'Donnell in The South of England Karate Union. At this time Hazard lived in Leyton, East London, and Dewey arranged for him to join the Brighton Karate Club (Dewey had formed the club with Phil Elliott in 1974). Hazard accepted the invitation and moved from London to Brighton where he ran the club for nineteen years, serving as Technical Director and Grading Examiner to SEKU until he left and moved to Nottingham.
Later The 'South of England Karate Union' was renamed The Shotokan of England Karate Union. The Brighton Karate Club is now run by Jess Lavender a 7th Dan.
Hazard later left SEKU and is now the chief instructor of an international association in the form of the
Early years
David Frederick Hazard was born in Bow, London, England, in 1952. His father's family owned a road haulage company and a public house, while his mother's family worked in the docks. At first the family lived in the upper two rooms of a four-room terraced house in Stepney, with a shared outside toilet. When Dave was seven the family moved Harlow new town in Essex, to a house with two inside toilets, space for everyone and a garden. A few years later when Dave was about thirteen, his parents separated and his mother took the children back to the east end of London to a flat in Leyton. While his mother worked hard to support them, he went to Ruckholt Manor Secondary School, an old and tough place. Refusing to join a gang he was picked on by both sides. After a bad beating by a group of boys one day, his mother took him round to their houses so that he could fight and beat them one at a time, after which he had little more trouble.[7] Not being a model student he had a regular Friday afternoon appointment with the headmaster for a caning. On one occasion the drama teacher challenged Dave to a fight for disrupting his classes and gave him a beating. The following day he took Dave out to the pub for a beer and advised him to use his brains constructively. On another occasion a teacher who had beaten a boy about the head causing temporary blindness was thrown out of a second floor window by older boys, breaking his legs and hips.[8]
Working
Hazard left school aged sixteen and became an apprentice hairdresser in an old fashioned barbers shop where he became skilled at cutting hair. While working in another barbers shop a customer told him about Blackfriars karate club where there were Japanese instructors. In August 1969 he went to watch his first session, with Keinosuke Enoeda teaching assisted by Kato, and decided he wanted to become as good as a yellow belt he watched there.[9] In 1972 Dave passed his first Dan grading. At the following training session he was still wearing a brown belt and Enoeda swapped belts with him, telling him to keep the black belt with Enoeda's name embroidered on it.[10] Not long afterwards he was called up to the England national team.[11] By the time Blackfriars dojo closed, the building being needed for a different use, Hazard had risen from beginner to run the club. As a professional instructor Hazard taught a girl called Katy at Goldsmiths College karate club who was known as "Ee-ee" because of her squeaky kiai. Kate Bush was later seen on television singing her high pitched hit song "Wuthering Heights" with dance moves that Hazard said appeared to come from karate.[12] As well as also working as a doorman Hazard worked in a number of jobs including auto-electrics with his uncle and steel fixing, putting concrete reinforcing bars in place.[13]
Training in Japan
In 1977 Hazard travelled to Japan to train with the top masters, where he was invited to train in the
Joining SEKU
In April 1982 twenty clubs in the south of England, led by Mick Dewey of Portsmouth club decided to leave the
Founding the Academy of Shotokan Karate
In 2003, after nineteen years with SEKU (technical director since 1985), Hazard left to set up his own federation the Academy of Shotokan Karate (ASK).[16] ASK is an international organisation founded to promote excellence in Shotokan karate as a
Emphasis is placed on study of the
The association's competitions are held biennially in Nottingham, England. The first competition was attended by Enoeda's widow, who was presented with a photograph of her husband from the 1960s which she had not seen before. At the 2006 Shobu Ippon international competition at Guildford Spectrum a five-man ASK kumite team, all from Kihaku Dojo, won the inter federation team fight, and the federation has placed high in the Shobu-ippon medal table in subsequent years.[18][19][20][21][22]
The Grading Examiner and Senior Instructor for the South of England is Jess Lavender[23] who took over Hazard's Brighton Dojo, after Hazard relocated to Nottingham.
Autobiography
In 2007, John Blake Publishing Ltd published Hazard's autobiography, Born Fighter.[24]
References
- ^ "Brighton Shotokan Karate Club » Sensei Dave Hazard Interview with Shotokan Karate Magazine". Brightonkarate.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Dave Hazard Profile". Theshotokanway.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p35
- ^ [1]< Archived 24 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Brighton Shotokan Karate Club : Dave Hazard 7th Dan". Brightonkarate.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ [2]< Archived 27 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p15
- ^ Dave Hazard, Born Fighter, John Blake Publishing 2007, p.22
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p36
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p65
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p70
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p114
- ^ Dave Hazard Born Fighter John Blake Publishing 2007 p110
- ^ "Terry O'Neil Interviews Dave Hazard". Fighting Arts International, Issue 49, 1988.
- ^ [3] Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dave Hazard Profile". Theshotokanway.com. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Shotokan Karate Magazine Issue 97 October 2008
- ^ "Shobu – Ippon International Shotokan Open 2006 Results" (PDF). 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Shobu – Ippon International Shotokan Open 2007 Results" (PDF). 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Shobu – Ippon International Shotokan Open 2008 Results" (PDF). 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Shobu – Ippon International Shotokan Open 2009 Results" (PDF). 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Shobu – Ippon International Shotokan Open 2010 Results" (PDF). 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Brighton Shotokan Karate Club » Jess Lavender 7th Dan". Brightonkarate.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-84454-480-6.