Great Masters

In 1970 he was invited by Master Suzuki to participate in the W.U.K.O. "senior" European championship held in London. In this city he made a decision that would change his life. "Four representatives of the Goyu Ryu went there. Masters Ogawa, Tokyo Funashako, Gosen Yamaguchi, the second son of Yamaguchi Gogen and I, who in those days was teaching in Dusseldorf. In this city it was quite normal to be five to seven degrees below zero. The city was covered with snow all winter long. Because of the weather you couldn't be very sociable. It seemed to me that people were very sad, dry. It's hard to imagine how much the sun influences a person's character. Throughout the winter months, weeks went by without sunshine and almost every day it snowed. In the evening, it soon became dark. I was not at ease, something was wrong. I thought I was like