Sensei Adriaan van Vuuren

Sensei Adriaan began his karate career in 1982.

He was graded to first degree black belt in 1994, second degree black belt in 1997, third degree in 2000 and 4th degree black belt in 2004 under Shihan Koos Burger (7th dan,40+ years karate experience).

Sensei Adriaan started a karate club in 1997 in South Africa under the affiliation of SASKA. His students have shown success on national and international levels. In 2002 three of his students were selected to represent the all styles South African team at the all styles World Karate Championships in Yugoslavia.

Sensei Adriaan has also participated in many national championships in South Africa and won numerous medals. He has also been awarded elite Provincial all style colors in South Africa.

He has acted as referee on the national and international level and trained with renowned masters such as: Kase, Opeloski, Sugimoto, etc.

Sensei Adriaan immigrated to the USA in 2002 and started a dojo in Orangevale, California in February of 2003.

In October of 2003 two of his students participated at the World Championships in Buenos Aires where they won a total of three medals. Sensei Adriaan also acted as referee at this championship.

He currently trains and teaches karate four nights a week at his dojo in Orangevale.

Although Sensei Adriaan is enthusiastic about competition karate, he places emphasis on training the “budo’ way .

He regards Shihan Koos Burger as a mentor.

SASKA style head and chief instructor:

Shihan Koos Burger was born in 1943 and started karate in 1963. He was graded to Shodan in 1967 by Sensei Stan Schmidt, Nidan in 1970 and Sandan in 1978. He joined Shotokan Karate International (Kanazawa) and was graded to Yondan in 1984 and Godan in 1988 by Sensei Kanazawa. Between 1983 and 1991, Shihan Koos trained in Japan twice for extended periods of time. In 1993 he joined WKSA under Kancho Taiji Kase (9th dan) as he felt much could be learned from Kancho Kase’s clean and phenomenally powerful execution of martial arts techniques.

Shihan Koos was graded to 6th dan in 1996 and 7th dan in 2002 by Kancho Kase.

He regularly trained with Kancho Kase in Andorra.

Shihan Koos has taken teams to and led teams at many international championships in the USA and Europe.

Shihan Koos also belongs to a Samurai group in Japan.

He currently holds the position of WUKO chairman for the continent of Africa.