The Shinshinkan Dojo, Isshin Ryu Karate Kobudo born in March 1993. It was founded by Master Gerardo Cantore. Master Gerardo Cantore, born in Montevideo Uruguay, on July 16, 1961. In 1967, at 6 years old he start practicing martial arts. He was a student of legendary dojos Uruguay, as the Kamakura Institute and erwing and Karate School in Aikijujitsu respectively. In the 70s, has a normal life, pra
cticed in most dojos Uruguay, playing rugby, the only sport practiced, begins civil aviator pilot studies. in the late 70s, he moved to Argentina, Entre Rios, and studied philosophy and theology, its strongest inclination was always the cultural perspective, anthropology,
Always practicing karate and aikijujitsu as place estubo, then decide, without money and with a small bag, start traveling, aimlessly, a research trip, personal, multicultural, and so besides Uruguay and Argentina, crosses South America, knowing almost all countries, living years in many of them, along the way, practiced and taught karate and aikijujitsu, while the multicultural experience, always with a center of moral, is getting bigger, that as expected, takes him to Asia, so he lives for years in countries such as Laos, China, Nepal, India, Thailand, Japan etc, living with local people, like local people, always within the moral, always practicing martial arts, living in schools and temples, even came to live as a Buddhist monk, retired in the Himalayas in Nepal, and there begins to detach, developing a thought, universal, non-competitive, using the legacy of the Budo to their mental, physical, and spiritual strength,
In the 80s, in Okinawa, while practicing Okinawa Shorin Ryu in Japan, he met the Isshin Ryu, and his initiation tube Hand Angi Uezu Sensei,
The base of the Isshin Ryu Katas and technical concepts, inevitable influence of the Shorin and Aikijujitsu, its multicultural, universal, non-competitive influence,
It was developing a very strong dojo in quality and quantity, and also the Dojo Shinshinkan wins international fame, with videos and magazines worldwide,
For a time, a lot of pressure from some sectors, only calls his work the Shinshinkan, but clearly, it was and is a solid version, and healthy Isshin Ryu, Masters seniors, Isshin Ryu, recognize their work, but then, by pressure, to them, they go to back with this :), but we and we like,
until a grandmaster, Japan Okinawa, with an open mind, unquestionable, that you can see, development, evolution, comprencion, and level, Gerardo Cantore appears, and delivers the 10th Dan Judan Hanshi, Kancho in Shinshinkan Isshin Ryu , the pressure continues, but the level, technical and human, students, Gerardo Cantore, made from scratch, today speak, in itself, and are mostly degree
