Master

 

 

Born in Rome on May 16th/1957, Master Vincenzo Alibrandi, creator of the Gojukan Budo method, practices and studies:

 

- KARATE (Go-ju Ryu) since 1972;

 

- IAI-DO (Hoki Ryu and Zen Kendo Renmei Iai): since 1986;

 

- KENJUTSU AND KOBUDO (Katori Shinto Ryu): since 1988.

 

His teaching experience starts with Karate in 1983 followed in 1992 by the other martial arts he's been practicing.

 

- Master Alibrandi has been graduated 5th Dan Renshi of Goju-ryu Karate-do by the I.K.O. (International Karate Organization) directed in Tokyo by Master Yamamoto Gonnohyoe (10th Dan - direct pupil of Master Yamaguchi Gogen) and represented in Italy by Master Alberto Evangelista (9th Dan).

 

- He was also graduated Karate Master within the Italian National Olympic Committee and Iai-do Instructor at the Italian National Fencing Academy in Naples.

 

During his more than thirty years of practice, he studied under the guidance of the following Masters: Alberto Evangelista (Karate Go-ju Ryu and Ko-budo); Bruno Ravignani (Karate Wa-do Ryu and Judo); Maurizio Palombi (Karate Shotokan, Kendo and Iai-do); Luigi Teodori  and Bruno Ballardini (Karate Shotokan); Hatakeyama Goro (Katori Shinto Ryu); Luisa Raini, Fausto Pegoraro,  Andrea Re, Claudio Regoli and Fabio Bardanzellu (Katori Shinto Ryu and Iai-do); Sergio and Franco Morstabilini (Katori Shinto Ryu); Kazuhiko Kumai (Iai-do); Eric Louw (Katori Shinto Ryu e Aikido).

 

Moreover, he attended many stages with notorious Masters such as Yutaka Toyama, Morio Higaonna, Shunji Sudo, Gonnohyoe Yamamoto, Tsuguo Sakumoto, Kohei Yamada, Tetsuji Nakamura, Meitatsu Yagi, Kentaro Miyazaki, T. Yamanaka, Y. Sugino, J. Bernaskewiche, Paolo Spongia, Giancarlo Bagnulo, Victor Cook and many others, from whom he learned not only a multifold heritage of technical knowledge, but also the load of great enthusiasm, perseverance and  dedication that all of them never missed to transmit together with the luggage of their immense experience.

 

To all the above mentioned Masters and to the others not enlisted for space reasons, goes the utmost sincere and deepest gratitude.

 

Having spent part of his youth in the United States, he speaks a fluent English and in order to keep alive the link with his origins (Spanish Grandmother and French Grandfather) he studied with success both languages. His passion for languages extended to German and finally, following his studies and research in the field of Martial Arts, to Japanese.

 

Master Alibrandi can be reached at the e-mail address  alibrandi@gojukanbudo.org at the telephone number 0039-338/7922365, or at his postal address in Via della Fontanella, 3 - 00060 - Castelnuovo di Porto (RM). His knowledge of foreign languages makes him particularily versatile in teaching to foreigners  and he is available for giving lessons, previously agreed upon, throughout Italy and Europe.