UConn Karate Club
Instructors


SKDI = Shotokan Karate-Do International
JKA = Japan Karate Association

Master Masataka Mori, 8th dan
Chief Instructor, Shotokan Karate-Do International

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Robert Jacobs
Chief Instructor, UConn Karate Club

 Rank: 6th dan, July 2005

 Began Training: UConn, 1973

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 1991

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "B"
Examiner - Class "C"
Judge - Class "B"
Margaret Thomas
Chief Instructor, Karate Spirit

 Rank: 5th dan, July 1998

 Began Training: Philadelphia, 1975

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 1995

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "B"
Examiner - Class "C"
Judge - Class "B"
Mark Blake
Instructor

 Rank: 5th dan, July 1998

 Began Training: UConn, 1976

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 1995

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "B"
Examiner - Class "C"
Judge - Class "B"
Craig Elkin
Chief Instructor, Yale Shotokan Karate Club

Rank: 5th dan, July 2007

 Began Training: New York, 1980

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 2003

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "C"
Examiner - Class "D"
Judge - Class "C"
John Henderson
Instructor

 Rank: 4th dan, Dec 1995

 Began Training: UConn, 1979

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "B", 1989

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "D"
Examiner - Class "D"
Judge - Class "D"
Thomas Hine
Instructor

 Rank: 4th dan, July 1999

 Began Training: UConn, 1980

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 2004

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "C"
Examiner - Class "D"
Judge - Class "C"
Holly Danowski
Instructor

 Rank: 4th dan, July 2001

 Began Training: UConn, 1982

 SKDI Certification: 

Instructor - Class "A", 2003

JKA International Certification: 

Instructor - Class "D"
Examiner - Class "D"
Judge - Class "C"
John Seifert
Instructor

 Rank: 4th dan, Dec 2003

 Began Training: UConn, 1989

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "A", 2007

JKA International Certification:

Judge - Class "D"
Andrew "Bako" Bakoledis
Chief Instructor, JKA of Montville

 Rank: 4th dan, July 2004

 Began Training: UConn, 1990

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "B", 2001

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "D"
Examiner - Class "D"
Judge - Class "C"
Mike Jacobs
Instructor

 Rank: 3rd dan, Apr 2003

 Began Training: UConn, 1990

 SKDI Certification:

Instructor - Class "B", 2007

JKA International Certification:

Instructor - Class "D"
Judge - Class "D"

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