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Abdallah Saleh, BS
Seventh (Nana) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
DSKI Chief Instructor - for the Middle East and Mediterranean Region
Lebanon
A direct student of Sensei Hiroshi Nakayama, Abdallah Saleh began his Karate training in 1969 with Japan Karate Association. With a career spanning 40 years, Abdallah has taught Karate to thousands of students in the Middle East and Mediterranean Region. He has trained with several top-ranking Karate masters including the legendary grand master Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama.
Sensei Abdallah has served as the Chief Instructor for SKI Lebanon and the Middle East, and Chief Instructor of WSKF Lebanon. Abdallah brings a wealth of Karate experience as a competitor, instructor, judge and examiner.
Ali Darwish, PhD
Shihan Seventh (Nana) Dan
Founder and World Chief Instructor
Head of the Senior Technical Committee
Ali Darwish began his Karate training in 1969, first three years in Wado Ryu Karate, attaining Shodan, and then under the tutelage of Sensei Hiroshi Nakayama and Sensei Hideki Okamoto of the Japan Karate Association. As a national team member and coach, he participated in several local and regional championships, and as one of the leading instructors, played a vital role in promoting Karate in the region.
In 1974, Ali co-founded The Shotokan Karate-Do School of Lebanon (known today as Beirut Karate Association) with Sensei Abdallah Saleh and in 1980 affiliated Lebanon to Sensei Kanazawa's Shotokan Karate International (SKI), serving as the Technical Adviser and international non-resident General Secretary of SKI Lebanon and the Middle East in the UK for several years.
While in the UK, Ali continued his Karate training with top-ranking Japanese Karate instructors such as sensei Enoeda, Kanazawa, Kase, Yahara, Shirai, Asano, kawasoe and Kasuya. Sensei Ali has taught Karate for over 36 years in Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Australia (since 1989). He has also served as the Technical Adviser of World Shotokan Karate-Do Australia from 1995 to 2009. He received his Godan in 1994 (WSKF), Rokudan in 2002 (WSKA) and Nanadan in 2010.
Riad Nahas
Sixth (Roku) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
Poland
Riad Nahas began his Karate training in 1970 in Lebanon and has continued his training with world-renowned Japanese Karate masters such as the formidable Sensei Nakayama, Nishiyama, Yahara and Tatsu Otaki. He ran several dojo in Greece for three years (1983-1986), trained in Japan for one year with top JKA masters such as Sensei Nakayama, Asai, Abe and Tanaka, and ran his Karate dojos in Tunisia for ten years producing hundreds of fine Karate-ka, before moving to Poland.
He has traveled all over the world to get a hands-on experience of what is going around in the karate world. He always implements the scientific approach in his training, so that his students may benefit the maximum from his wide and long experience.
Sensei Abdallah is also a member founder of Lebanese Karate Federation, a National Team head coach, and DC Technical Member West Asia Karate Federation.
Aseem Hodeib
Fifth (Go) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
Aseem Hodeib began training under Sensei Hiroshi Nakayama of Japan Karate Association in 1973. He continued his Karate training with Sensei Darwish and Sensei Saleh. Aseem is a former excellent Karate competitor. He teaches at two dojo.
Hussein Daaboul
Seventh (Nana) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
DSKI Chief Instructor for United States
Hussein Daaboul began his martial arts training in 1969, focusing in his first three years of training on Tae Kwon Do and attaining the status of Shodan. In 1971 he began practicing Shotokan Karate with the Japan Karate Association under Grand Master Sensei Heideki Okamoto and Sensei Hiroshi Nakayama, continuing his intensive training under their direction until 1976.
During this time, Daaboul represented Lebanon in several championships, taught at a variety of establishments across the country, including the American University of Beirut, the Academy of Combative Arts, and the Lebanese-Armenian Club.
In 1980, Daaboul moved to the U.S. where he taught at athletic clubs in Irving and Dallas, Texas and associated with the Grand Master Alex Fernandez. Daaboul became the senior martial arts instructor of the black Taekwon Tun in 1989. Holding the rank of Godan (5th degree), he then began studying Aikido and Kendo under the Grand Master Shihan Doug Hale. Daaboul continued his Aikido and Kendo practice for over 20 years as a sensei, and is now a teacher who holds the rank of Godan in Ni-Taishite Kogeki Gakai Kobujuitsu and Godan in Samurai Kaiki Juitsu. As an accomplished martial artist, Sensei Hussein Daaboul has taught martial arts for over 40 years in both Lebanon and the U.S.
In Poland, Riad has been teaching Karate for many years. He has also participated in several world and regional championships.
Aboud Al Sayed
Fifth (Go) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
Aboud al Sayed started karate in 1975 with the Palestinian Karate Federation and continued with Sensei Abdallah Saleh at Beirut Karate Association (BKA). He is a full time instructor at the BKA headquarters. Aboud is well-known for teaching good basics and producing excellent karate-ka.
Shawki Salman
Fourth (Yon) Dan
Member of the Senior Technical Committee
Shawki Salman joined the Beirut Karate Association in 1989 and attend the Instructor Program of the Association. He teaches in the Bekaa district in his dojo were he has produced top competitors for the national team, especially the women's team winner of the Middle East championship.
George Venkov
Third (San) Dan
Queensland State Instructor
George Venkov was born in 1989 in Sofia, the capital of Republic of Bulgaria within a family of an actress and martial artist. His father George Venkov Snr. is one of the pioneers of the Bulgarian Karate since 1973. In 1990 he became a charter member of the Bulgarian National Karate Federation, member of the board of directors. George Venkov has been practising Shotokan Karate Do from the age of 5 at "Karate Club George" in Sofia, under the directions of his father Shihan George. In 2006 George Venkov was promoted to Shodan (1st Dan Black Belt) in Shotokan Karate Do. In the same year he was invited to Australia with a sports scholarship for tennis from Pro-One Tennis Academy situated on the Gold Coast, where he began his studies for a Sports Development Officer.
Along with his professional tennis career, George continued practicing Shotokan Karate, Kick Boxing and Boxing and followed the path of Kobudo with the traditional Okinawan weapon Nunchaku. In 2008, George was promoted to Nidan by "Shotokan Karate-Do Club George". He currently holds the rank Sandan.
