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Instructors | Officers | Black-Belt Earners
| Master Takayuki Mikami, 8th Dan JKA and
several times All-Japan Champion, founded the Tulane Karate Club in the
late 1960's. Mr. Mikami was one of the very first instructors sent from Japan
to the United States, is officially the fourth-most-senior JKA Master worldwide, and
the Chief-Instructor of the All South Karate Federation, JKA's Southern Region of the
United States. He comes to Tulane once a semester to give a belt test and clinic,
and TKC members supplement their training at Master Mikami's dojo, the
Louisiana Karate Association. Kyriakos Papadopoulos
has been the principal instructor of the Tulane Karate Club since 1989.
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(with part of the Tulane team in the 2000 ISKF/JKA Nationals in Philadelphia) |
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| Kyriakos Papadopoulos kyriakos@tulane.edu | Devin Fadaol cdf@mcsalaw.com | |||
| 5th Dan JKA, JKA instructor (B), examiner (C), judge (B) | 4th Dan JKA | |||
| A professor of chemical engineering at Tulane since 1981, Kyriakos is one of the seven currently certified JKA instructors in the Southern Region. He started training in karate as a young Tulane professor in 1982, by taking a PE class taught by Takayuki Mikami at Tulane. He made black-belt in 1988 and started teaching the TKC in 1989. He took third place in the heavy-weight black-belt kumite of the All-South in 1996 and 1998, years he also competed in the ISKF Nationals. In addition to teaching the TKC, Kyriakos trains regularly with Master Mikami. He has also practiced several other martial arts and holds a USJF 4th Dan in Judo. He prides himself equally for the accomplishments of his students, as well as for having trained in karate without interruption since he started. |
Devin started karate while in high-school and came to Tulane as freshman with a brown belt in 1993. He has been junior National Champion (AAU), National Champion of the light-weight division in the 1996 Championships of the USAKF, National Collegiate Champion of the ISKF in 1996 and several-times member of the kumite National Team of the USANKF, as well as of the team of the Southern Region in the ISKF National Championship. As a member of the ISKF National Team, he won a men's team sparring gold medal in Panama City, Panama, in the 10th PanAmerican Karate Championship on Aug 15, 2004. He has won the All-South twice and has placed almost every year since the late nineties. In the ISKF Nationals he got a bronze in kumite (2006), has placed in the top eight several times and has been member of its US Team several times, including the combined 2006 US JKA team sent to the Shotocup in Sydney. In addition to his tournament successes, Devin has contributed to TKC since he was an undergraduate student by serving as club treasurer and president. After graduating from Tulane College, Devin attended Tulane Law School and has been working as an attorney since 2000. |
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| Dimitri Papadopoulos dpapadop@tulane.edu | |||||
| 4th Dan JKA, JKA Instructor (D); judge (D) | |||||
| The current JKA WF America kumite national champion, Dimitri started his karate training at the TKC in 1990. As a junior competitor, the first time he competed outside Louisiana was in the 1998 World Shotocup in Paris, where he won 2nd place in the 15-year-old boys kumite. After that he had many successes in National, PanAmerican and World tournaments, and has won the All-South several times. He obtained his BA in History in May 2005. |
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