SHIHAN KOOS BURGER - 8th Dan
He represented N-Tvl in kata and kumite during the period 1966 - 1970. From 1983 to 1991, Shihan Koos trained three times in Japan for extended periods. He also trained and took teams to Europe and the USA, several times. He attended many national and international competitions as a referee during the period 1966 - 1993.
He was graded to Shodan by Sensei Stan Schmidt in 1967, Nidan in 1970 and Sandan in 1978. He joined Shotokan Karate International (Kanazawa) and was graded to Yondan (1984) and Godan (1988) by Sensei Kanazawa.During 1993 he joined WKSA under Kancho Taiji Kase (9th Dan) as he felt much was to be learnt from Kase's clean and phenominally powerfull execution of martial techniques.
Shihan Koos regularly trains with Kancho in Andorra and was graded to 6th Dan in 1996 and to 7th Dan in 2002 by Kase. In 2009 he was accredited 8th Dan by ISKS, awarded by SASKA as well as WUKF. A junior team was taken to the World Karate Confederation Cup in Spain in 2000, a senior team in 2001 to Scotland, Junior team to Novisad in 2002, SASKA team to Argentina in 2003, Junior team to Germany in 2004 and a Senior team to Brazil in 2005. In 2005 he travelled to Greece with a team, in 2006 he trained in Japan and the same year he took a team to Romeinia for the World championships and he also took a team in 2007 to Spain for the World chapionships. In 2008 he took a team to the 2nd Pan Americam open in Brazil and the same year he took a team to Italy for the World championship. In 2008 he gave Karate Instruction in the USA. Shihan Koos also belongs to the Shinsengumi Samurai group in Japan.
Sensei Koos is currently the Chairman for the Africa continent for WUKF (For more about WUKF go to http://www.wukf-karate.org) The high standard he expect from us could add to the anxieties of grading, but reinforces the style with steel. There is also a briming sense of possibility and diversity, depicted by adventures like scaling many of the world's highest mountains in his youth to sailing the world's oceans with his wife and children more lately. He takes us for an annual gashuku in the Drakensberg mountains where we train in the shadows of the Injasuthi peaks. A love for science is revealed by a devotion to understand the mechanisms behind the power of karate techniques and a previous occupation as a bacteriologist.
We know him though for his modesty and constant willingness to listen and help us where possible. Shihan Koos always say "that after 46 years of karate, the strongest stance that I found was not a karate stance, but the stance on my knees when I pray to my role model and Chief Instructor Jesus Christ. With God as our Chief Instructor we can use karate to make the world a better place, and give our karateka a happy life"
Not only is Shihan an apt kareteka but he also participated in mountaineering and sailing.
His passion for the mountains is that something in the mountain air that inspires the mind with great thoughts. He was an expedition member in different South African mountaineering expeditions who climbed many of the worlds highest mountains eg. Himalayas, Andes, Mount McKinley, etc.
Private karate classes for individual karateka and self defence classes
for groups of non karateka, can be arranged with Shihan Koos Burger.