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Roland Habersetzer was born in 1942. He began
to study the arts of fighting in the section of Ju-do and Ju-jitsu in
1957. He completely devoted himself to the occupation and owing to his hardworking he got his 1st Dan in this art of fighting in 1961. He became the first and the youngest possessor of Black Belt in Europe of that time. In 1962 Habersetzer opened the section in Karate/Ko-Budo attached to Strasbourg University club. He was the director (and later the technical adviser) of this club up to 1990. It was the first Dojo in the East of France, which produced a great number of Karate Masters. After the foundation of the French Karate Federation during 10 years he was one of the key figures and, as a matter of fact, its willing hours. As Habersetzer was one of the best specialists in the arts of fighting in France, he conducted seminars and probation periods. He carried out training of the system in Europe through which hundreds Karatekas had come. In 1974, being on the top of his sport career, Habersetzer was disappointed with sport karate and left the French Karate Federation. He established the BUDO RESEARCH CENTER. This international Center is called to unite all the admirers of Budo who are worried about the spiritual future of development of arts of fighting of Japan and China. Habersetzer was one of the firsts who spoke
about the tragic results to which the developing of arts of fighting without
taking into consideration cultural Habersetzer teacher, with whom he is up to now close friendship relates, was one of the greatest Japanese Master's, the possessor of the 10th Dan - Tsuneoshi Ogura. , in his turn, studied the art of Karate with the help of Gogen Yamaguchi and Gima Makoto. Yamaguchi is well known by all the admirers of Karate and Gima Makoto should be said about: he was one of the firsts and, perhaps, the best student of Gichin Funakoshi. Makoto was the first to receive the Black Belt from the hands o the Great Master. So, it was Ogura who gave Habersetzer the 7th Dan in 1982 in Japan and the 8th Dan in 1992. It is a rare honour to the master of non-Japanese origin and this proves Habersetzer great achievements in the sphere of Arts of fighting. There's another one master whom Habersetzer considers to be his teacher. It is the Master of the 9th Dan, the head of the Goju-Kensha school - Tadahiko Otsuka. He devoted all his life to arts of fighting. For more than 15 years he, together with his wife, had been living in China, studying the arts of fighting. It helped him in investigations of the vague parts of Karate-do history. Mr. Otsuka is said to be one of the greatest connoisseurs and investigators of Okinawa traditional Budo schools and Mrs. Otsuka is a specialist in Tai-Chi-Chuan. Uniting words and deeds, Mr. Habersetzer continues to conduct his seminars in Karate-do, Ko-Budo, Kung Fu, Tai- Jutsu which have become well known and popular all over the world. Today the CRB unites thousands of Karate
admirers and a great number of fighting arts clubs from New Caledonia
to Canada, from Morocco to Norway, from Portugal to Russia. Habersetzer
was the expert of such a rank that he began bringing Karate-do into the
countries of the Eastern Europe: Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria ÃMr. Habersetzer is a technician of a very high rank, talented artists and expert in such Karate styles as Shotokan and Wado-ryu. He is an expert in Tai-Chi-Chuan (Yang style) and in the Kung-Fu styles: Hun-gar, Choy-Lee. He combines all these things with a post of a teacher of history and geography. Today his research goes beyond the frame of the classical martial arts, which he enriches to maintain them alive and up-to-date in a world which moves all the time. Indeed, having a passion for the art of combat in all its forms, and convinced that the pursuit of efficiency must leave no stone unturned, he was led naturally to open up his practice to other techniques, some of which use contemporary weapons. So, while continuing his numerous Budoka activities, Roland Habersetzer is also conducting research, in the context of his "TENGU INSTITUTE", which aims to perfect an overall concept of self-dÈfence through the study and the comparative practice of many different forme of combat, both with and without weapons, and which is more in keeping with the realities of modern times. What is original about this new system is that it is based on the possibilities of a multi-directional response and on its ability to integrate changeable components to meet needs and circumstances, with or without weapons. The theorical and practical reflexion he has been leading for a dozen years for the return to a real warlike dimension of the traditional art of the "bare hand combat" thus takes all its meaning, as something rooted in the present and the concrete. Maintaining this searching mind inherent to what the long tradition of martial arts has left, and in the mean time adding restlessly to the means brought into play to reach a realistic attitude rooted in the present and the concrete, that is the meaning of the author's reasoning. Centre de recherhce Budo |
A year later he discovered Karate-do for himself, which just began
to develop in France at that time and a very limited circle of people
were engaged in Karate-do.
and spiritual matter can lead. Even
at that time Habersetzer had foretold the crisis of arts of fighting and
this crisis of cabn be observed now. For more that thirty years Habersetzer
is constantly involved in the developing of Karate-do trend which is based
on the Budo conception - the theory and the spirit of which he spreads
through his numerous books on technique and history of arts of fighting.
Since 1968 till 1998 there were published more than 60 books about Eastern
arts of fighting, some of them were illegally copied and published in
the USSR and Russia. There were not only fundamental works on Karate and
Ko-Budo but such little known books as "Iai-do", "Tao Kung-Fu", "Kata
Judo", "Nin-jutsu", "The Kung-Fu Art of fighting" (a technique of Shaolin),
"Ju-jutsu", "Trenings in Arts of fighting", "Koshiki-no-kata", "Bu-Bi-Shi"
and many other books.
and the
USSR. 
