17 Facts About Dave Hazard

Dave Hazard is a former KUGB national champion and British team member.

In 1977 Hazard went to Japan where he studied in Japan Karate Association instructor classes under Masatoshi Nakayama.

Dave Hazard accepted the invitation and moved from London to Brighton where he ran the club for nineteen years, serving as Technical Director and Grading Examiner to SEKU until he left and moved to Nottingham.

Dave Hazard later left SEKU and is the chief instructor of an international association in the form of the Academy of Shotokan Karate, which he founded in 2003, feeling in need of an environment that would allow him personally to evolve his approach to Shotokan Karate-Do.

Dave Hazard is assisted within the ASK by senior instructors and karate-ka like Jeff Westgarth, Jess Lavender, Paul Herbert and Juli Pops.

Dave Hazard is the former kata coach for the England national squad, due to the restructuring of the EKGB.

Dave Hazard brings to many training courses his expertise in kata and their applications to differing situations.

David Frederick Dave Hazard was born in Bow, London, England, in 1952.

When Dave Hazard was seven the family moved Harlow new town in Essex, to a house with two inside toilets, space for everyone and a garden.

Dave Hazard left school aged sixteen and became an apprentice hairdresser in an old fashioned barbers shop where he became skilled at cutting hair.

Kate Bush was later seen on television singing her high pitched hit song "Wuthering Heights" with dance moves that Dave Hazard said appeared to come from karate.

In 1977 Dave Hazard travelled to Japan to train with the top masters, where he was invited to train in the JKA Instructors Class.

Dave Hazard had met Tomita when he had first come to England and now Tomita was repaying him.

In 1985, with SEKU growing, Dewey asked his old friend Dave Hazard to join the organisation as Technical Director.

At SEKU Dave Hazard started an instructors' class on the lines of that he had trained in Japan, to improve quality and uniformity of teaching.

In 2003, after nineteen years with SEKU, Dave Hazard left to set up his own federation the Academy of Shotokan Karate.

In 2007, John Blake Publishing Ltd published Dave Hazard's autobiography, Born Fighter.