Jon Bluming

John Cornelius Bluming ( born February 6, 1933, Amsterdam) is a Dutch master of traditional Japanese martial arts (Budo ) and high graduated in Bojutsu, Iaijutsu, Jodo, Judo, Karate and Kendo.

Life

As a student of judo pioneer Dr. Gerhard Schutte FM 1950 he studied at the Korean Yudo College ( KYC ) in Seoul, led by Choi In - Do. After the end of the Korean War, actively participated in the Bluming as a member of the UN forces, he continued his judo studies continued on the recommendation of renowned historian Donn F. Draeger Budo in the Japanese capital Tokyo. In 1958 there its inclusion in the famous Kenshusei, a special class for the 25 best members of the Kodokan Judo Institute ( Judo ), which at that time was headed by Kyuzo Mifune. In 1960 he won 3rd place at the National Olympic judo qualifying heats (after the later Olympic champions Akio Kaminaga and Isao Inokuna ) and then began an intensive Budo Studies: Nihon - the Kobudo under Ichitaro Kuroda and Takaji Shimizu and Karate in the style of Kyokushinkai under Masutatsu Oyama, his master pupil he became.

The Dutchman was in 1964 instrumental in building the International Karate Organization ( IKO ) involved and the first foreigner to Karate taught in the country of origin. Bluming, now one of the highest ranking Judoka (9th Dan Kodokan ) and pioneer of Kyokushinkai in Europe ( 1961), granted in 1965 as the first non - Japanese karateka 6th Dan and 1994 10th dan. The former Dutch and Belgian Karate coach founded in 1962 Nederlandse Karate Associatie ( NKA ), 1968 European Karate Organisation ( EKO ) and 1996 after retiring from the International Budo Kaikan IKO ( IBK ).

He appeared in numerous film productions, published in 1967 two trade books ( Kyokushinkai Karate 1/2. Co-author Kenji Kurosaki ), and in 1999 his biography ( The History of Jon Bluming ). Among his numerous pupils, among other things include the Karateka Hideyuki Ashihara, Juan Carlos ( King of Spain ), Jan H. Kallenbach, Geert J. Lemmens, Otti Roethof, Alain Sétrouk and Peter Valentin and the judoka Chris Dolman and Wim Ruska.