Helmut Moldners Shihan commenced training in Judo in 1961 approx, as a teenager. After a number of years he also joined the Goju Kai School of Gogen Yamaguchi Hanshi at the age of 15years, and has been a member ever since. After training at Sydney Goju Kan Dojo with Paul Starling Shinan he moved to Melbourne to become a full time Instructor during the latter months of 1972, with the Melbourne Goju Kai.

After 5 years of full time teaching he transferred to the North Coastal Region of New South Wales near to the border of Queensland, in Grafton, where he opened his own Branch of North Coast Goju Kai Karate do in 1977.

Helmut Shihan has trained in Japan on 2 seperate occasions, and some of his senior members have also taken the opportunity to travel to the Goju Kai hombu for advanced training with Yamaguchi Goshi Shihan, and on other occasions to compete in World Goju Kai IKGA tournaments.

Long time students of Helmut Shihan, such as Anne Geary [Trimble]4th Dan, & Paul MacLeod, 3rd Dan, have represented Australia as national team members for the Federation of Australian Karatedo Organisations, now AKF , and have both been State and National tournament champions.Helmut Shihan's training methodology however is not aimed at tournament training, but rather the emphasis is on traditional methods of close quarter goju ryu training.

Helmut Moldners Shihan- BA Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Major.
Macquarie University.

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