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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 one of the most senior JKA Master worldwide, and
the Chief-Instructor of the Japan Karate Association-American Federation, a JKA
national organization 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, 5th Dan JKA,
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 | Dimitri Papadopoulos dimitripops@gmail.com | |||
| 5th Dan JKA, JKA instructor (B), examiner (C), judge (B) | 5th Dan JKA, JKA Instructor (C); examiner (D); judge (C) | |||
| A professor of chemical engineering at Tulane since 1981, Kyriakos 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 and teaches other martial arts: he is a 4th Dan in Judo (USJF), and has tested successfully under Nariyama Shihan in the Osaka Honbu dojo for his Shodan and Nidan in Shodokan Aikido. He prides himself equally for the accomplishments of his students, as well as for having trained in karate without interruption since he started. | Dimitri started his karate training at the Tulane Karate Club in 1990 and has trained and taught in that club since. Five-times national champion for the US JKA organizations, as a member of the US JKA national team since 2000, he has represented the US in Pan American and World tournaments. He has won the All-South tournament 10 times for kumite and six times for kata. He obtained his BA in History in May 2005 and a second Bachelors (concentration in biological sciences) in 2008. In 2011 he got his Masters (concentration in biological sciences) and he is currently working full-time as Instructor of Biology at Delgado Community College, where he teaches Human Anatomy and Physiology. Besides the Tulane Karate Club, he is the instructor of the New Orleans JCC Karate Club, and also teaches karate at Newman School in New Orleans. |
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| Devin Fadaol cdf@mcsalaw.com | |||||
| 4th Dan JKA | |||||
| Devin started karate 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 five times and has placed almost every year since the late nineties. In the ISKF Nationals he got a bronze in kumite (2006), was the Men's Kumite National Campion of JKA-AF on 2008, 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, and the 2011 JKA Funakoshi Cup (11th Shotocup) in Bankgok, Thailand. 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, has been working as an attorney since 2000 and is a partner in his law firm. |
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