White Lion Academy
Hakuda Kempo Toshu Jutsu:
The real fighting arts of Karate, Jujutsu & Kobudo

Pictured: Chief Instructor Simon Keegan 4th Dan Renshi with Jamie Tozer 1st Kyu, Dan Sanchez 2nd Kyu and Ben Gaunt 2nd Kyu. Simon, Jamie and Dan are based in Salford/Manchester and Ben in London.


SC1 Senior International Instructor:
Simon Keegan (4th Dan Renshi)

Chief instructor Simon Keegan who holds the grade of 4th Dan Renshi has a unique blend of martial arts training behind him. As the third generation of his family to study martial arts, he began on the Budo path early in life. His primary interests are in Karate and southern Japanese Jujutsu. He is keen to research and develop some of Okinawa's oldest fighting arts including Toshukuken, Toshu Jutsu, Taku and Hakuda.

He spent many years studying Karate, Jujutsu, Aikijujutsu and Tai Chi and has also studied many other styles including Hsing-I, Judo, Iaido, Ninjutsu and Aikido as well as western arts such as fencing, boxing, kickboxing and archery.

In the last ten years he has made pioneering studies into kata bunkai and the exploration of Karate's relationship with Tai Chi, Hsing-I and Pakua. Following in the example of masters like Kanken Toyama he has formulated a system of Karate and Jujutsu based on the original methods of Hakuda and Toshu Jutsu. His studies have featured in magazines like Traditional Karate and Kata Unlimited.

Simon's grades are recognised in Japan and internationally. He holds the grade of 4th Dan Renshi, awarded with the blessing of the national director of Dai Nippon Butokukai (Kyoto) the oldest Japanese governing body; and his previous grade of 3rd Dan was awarded by Kokusai Budoin (Tokyo), one of Japan's oldest martial arts fraternities. His Renshi grade and 3rd Dan were awarded by Reiner Parsons (a student of Tadanori Nobetsu) who was himself graded by Ikuo Higuchi, the successor of Shinken Gima (Shoto Ryu) himself a student of Kanken Toyama, Gichin Funakoshi and Kentsu Yabu.

He believes in the concept of Sogo Budo (many martial arts unified in a single system with a strong underlying principle) and has looked to old masters such as Minoru Mochizuki in unifying arts like Karate, Jujutsu, Aikido, Jodo and Kobudo into a single self defence based system with the strongest influence being Karate.

Kokusai Budoin also awarded Simon the grade of 2nd Dan Nihon-den Jujutsu, a system of Jujutsu pioneered in the group by Minoru Mochizuki and later Shizuya Sato. Simon was admitted into Kokusai Budoin on a seminar with Mochizuki's successor in the group Mitsuhiro Kondo and his grades were endorsed by Sato Sensei and stamped by the hereditary shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yasuhisa. He has also trained on seminars with Karate Jutsu and Jujutsu masters like Terry Wingrove and Patrick McCarthy.

Simon was previously a personal student (uchideshi) of both Sensei Stephen Bullough and Sensei Robert Carruthers, training with each of these teachers for around eight years.

Simon is the director of the United Kingdom Budo Federation and Chairman of The Empire Martial Arts Association. He was also a founding member of English Karate Federation. He is also the vice president of a new organisation called the International Toshu Jutsu Federation.


Grades held by Simon:
- 4th Dan Renshi Hakuda Kempo Toshu Jutsu awarded by WKA (P.Lewis)
- 3rd Dan Shoto Ryu Karate/Niseikai Karate awarded by IMAF Japan (R. Parsons)
- 2nd Dan Nihon-den Jujutsu awarded by IMAF Japan (S.Sato)
- 2nd Dan Shotokan Karate/Seiki Juku Karate Jutsu, awarded by FEKO (R. Carruthers)
- 2nd Dan Kiai Yamabushi Ryu (Jujutsu, Aikijujutsu, Ninjutsu & Kobudo) (J Lee-Barron)
- 1st Dan Jin Hu Quan Fa (Metal Tiger applied Yang Style Taiji) awarded by UKBF (D.Keegan)

Dan Sanchez (2nd Kyu, Sempai)

Dan is a serving police officer whose experience brings a unique perspective to his teaching. He has trained with the Bushinkai Academy to the grade of brown belt in both Karate and Jujutsu having previously studied Shukokai Karate. In total Dan has studied Karate for about eight years and has a keen interest in Mixed Martial Arts and Jujutsu.

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C4 Club Instructor (Basingstoke):
Ben Gaunt (2nd Kyu Sempai)

Ben has trained with the Academy for about four years and  studied Wado Ryu Karate in the Basingstoke area in a club headed by Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka II and chief instructor Masafumi Shiomitsu. Ben is currently setting up his own branch of Bushinkai for London as well and studying Karate Jutsu under Sensei Alan Platt. He recently trained on a seminar with two legends of Karate Jutsu, Hanshi Patrick McCarthy and Hanshi Terry Wingrove.

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SC1 Senior International Instructor (Wigan):
Sifu David Keegan 4th Duan

Sifu David Keegan is the principle of the Metal Tiger Academy. He is adept in both Yang Style and Sun Style Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan) as well as Taiji Jian (Tai Chi Sword). Although Sifu has a good repertoire of martial applications and is a superb performer of the forms his main expertise lies in the transmission of internal energies known as Qi Gong (Chi Kung).

Since 2004 he has been head of Chinese martial arts divisions for organisations such as the UKBF and TEMAA and he is in demand as an instructor who teaches his Taiji to masters of arts such as Karate, Aikido and Judo. He is also a senior student of Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu one of the oldest Japanese styles of Iaijutsu and has trained with many masters of this school from Japan and the West.

Bushinkai International Representatives

Metal Tiger Academy: email:  Tai-Chi2010@runbox.com