Affiliated African Dojo
Kodokwan - Jujitsu Zambia
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Jonathan Kruger, 4th Dan Judo Zambia Judo Association- International Judo Federation.
8th Dan Hoshiyama Ryu Jujitsu. PO BOX 22293,Kitwe,ZAMBIA,Africa.
Email: judojonathan1987@gmail.com
Websites: www.kodokwanzambia.com www.medalofkar.com
Cell phone: +260 964490267 +260 966782339.
5th Generation instructor to the Kodokwan Judo Jujitsu club of Zambia,founded in Southern Africa in 1928
Sensei Jonathan Kruger 7th Dan, Shihan
General Secretary
Executive Director for Africa
Sensei Kruger, has more than 30 years of experience in martial arts, (7th Dan
Ju-jitsu; 4th Dan Judo). He is the senior instructor Kaiden Menkyo to the
Kodokwan Judo Ju-jitsu club of Zambia founded in 1928 in Cape Town, South
Africa from Dr. Henry Johnston who learnt it from Jujitsu Grandmaster Seishi
Teppei in from Hong Kong who came from Japan in 1920s. Jonathan studied Judo
Jujitsu in Osaka, Japan from 1991 to 1998.
While working there as a Christian missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM),
working among the University and high school students in Osaka city and Kyoto
city.
He was a Bible smuggler into Shanghai, China in the early 1990s, and also
worked with the boat people escaping from Vietnam while he was living in Hong
Kong.
Jonathan studied the Japanese language and Japanese history for 4 years while
living in Japan. He won the Takatsuki city and Ibaraki city inter high school
Judo championships from 1992 to 1994 in Northern Osaka, Japan.
Jonathan represented Zambia on the national team from 1991 to 2001. He fought
in the 1995 World Judo Championships in Makuhari, Chiba, Japan in the 95kg
weight category against the European World Champion Frank Muller.
He also have trained in Seoul, Korea with the national Korea Judo team coach in
1991 and in England with Sensei Keith Tiger Brown 7th Dan in Judo from
Sheffield city, and in jujitsu under the late Kancho Joe Grant Grierson 10th
Dan, Grandmaster to the Kodokwan in South Africa.
Jonathan has 85 underprivileged youth he is teaching at the Kodokwan Judo
Jujitsu club of Zambia a dojo based in Kitwe city, Zambia, where they also
learn Godly Biblical principles and values for their lives. The club has three
in international Judo champions who represent Zambia internationally around
Africa. Jonathan is a minister under the Shinja Martial Arts University, Shinja
Ministerial Association and Church Ministry. Jonathan is a General Secretary of Yeshua-Do Int'l, and the Executive Director for Yeshua-Do Africa.
Blessed be the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands to fight, and my fingers for warfare"
- Psalm 144:2