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ADNAN TARSHA
Kyokushin
Instructor Biography
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Adnan Tarsha is a famous Kyokushin instructor. He is the Founder
of Kyokushin style in Saudi Arabia in 1976. He is the branch chief of
International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan since 1982.
In Lebanon:
Adnan Tarsha from Tripoli, Lebanon. Has
started his way in Martial Arts in 1972.
The beginning was to learn the art of
Tae Kwon Do with the Lebanese Instructor
Ahmad Abu Khazaal, and because his perseverance
and dedication to training therein;
has taken quick progress
and became better than the students
began months earlier,
then he became the instructor in
the absence of the instructor
while
is still in the Green Belt.
Then made Demonstration in Tripoli and France
in 1973
[1].
His
instructor traveled to Japan to learn the
style Kyokushin with Master Oyama the founder of this fighting
style,
then
returned to Lebanon as a branch chief of
this
new fighting style which
has been approved by all the students to change to
it and
began intensive training
for this new fighting style.
The instructor stopped coming to Tripoli from Beirut and appointed Tarsha as
representative of this style. In this time he was in
Brown Belt, he began
teaching his students in
various outdoor places. He have been invited to present
demonstrations
on various
occasions attended by many
audiences. A person enthused and presented to him a place to
train in it, so he opened a training hall and began his activities there.
At the same time, he
continued his training with his instructor in
Beirut until he got his
Black Belt (1st
Dan)
certificate from Japan in 1974. Then his
fame increases
day after day
in Tripoli and a different
authorities
invites him to present Karate demonstrations
in their festivals, until he could organize by himself the biggest
Karate festival on the biggest theater in Tripoli in 1975, were he
presented
a series of difficult and dangerous demonstrations which
delighted the audience and raised their interaction. A number of newspapers and magazines published
interviews with him and reports about him
[2], and several authorities
requests from him to train in their places.
Then in 1975
he participated by a team of his
students in the
Lebanon Championship
on the theater of UNESCO in Beirut, and
presented a demonstration
in this championship,
as well as
took the role of
judge.
Founder of Kyokushin in Saudi Arabia:
In the year 1976, and after the fame of Adnan Tarsha
increased
[3]
in the world of Kyokushin and Karate
[4]
he informed
his students that he will travel for three weeks
 to
perform Umrah. He traveled to Makkah and
performed Umrah with
some friends who took him
to the city of Riyadh
which
God preordained to him to remain there
instead of Lebanon. He met
several times with
Prince Faisal bin Fahd
General President of Youth Welfare
who
enthused and
supported him and introduced him to Prince Salman
bin Abdulaziz Governor of Riyadh region,
and also
provided him with a letter to the
President of the Saudi Karate Federation to
cooperate with him in the training field. This federation was
established only few months ago in 1975.
In the same period, Adnan Tarsha
met the President of the
Federation who
explained to him that the federation does not
allow more than one style and
their official style is
"Shotokan" and therefore can not accredit his style
"Kyokushin"
so that there isn't two different
styles.
The meetings repeated between the two men
several times, and in one of the times the President of the
Federation
invited him to join the training of the new
Japanese instructor, to experiment
his training with the other instructors and students; He joined the training with the Japanese who had been
fought the instructors and students and
hit them strongly and
defeated them all to prove his strength and skill
in front of the audiences. When the turn came to Tarsha to fight with
him,
it happened what the Japanese didn't expect,
while it expect their
fight to be for a few seconds then
to change with another player, but
the duration of their fight
was for a long time which made the other players
to stop fighting and sit
down for a rest and to follow up their
fighting. The Japanese failed to
defeat him and
repeating what he has done with the others where
he faced a different way in the fighting
prevented him from achieving what he wants and
made him initiative to stop and
to end the fighting that drew the attention of
audiences.
God
Almighty
preordained the fighting of
the Japanese
with him to be a reason to open a new and very
important way in his life;
among those presents there was a
prince of the Saudi royal family who
joined the training with the Japanese; left
the training with him and asked Adnan
Tarsha to train
him in a private lesson in his palace,
and another three princes joined this lesson. Since
then he began
his way in the private lessons and teaching princes and the other
people, and
began to spread his style "Kyokushin"
which was
not known nor practiced in Saudi Arabia;
thus became
the founder of Kyokushin in Saudi Arabia and the first
person who introduced it in this country
and taught it
in 1976.
 In 1981
he began to give a unique private
Kyokushin lesson where
Prince Abdulaziz bin
Sattam
son of the deputy governor of Riyadh region
asked him to give him a lesson in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia
where he started his studying
at King Fahd University;
so
he
started to travel by plane two flights
every
week from and to Riyadh to give this lesson which lasted
several years
until the prince
graduated from the university and
continued his training with him in Riyadh.
In Japan:
 In
1982 he traveled to Japan to train with Master Masutatsu Oyama
founder of
"Kyokushin". Master
Oyama received him in the headquarter in Tokyo in a very well
reception, and organized a
Special
Welcome Demonstration
on his honor where a number of Japan and world
champions like
"Royama",
"Nishida" and others
performed
a
Karate
demonstrations.
An Arabic
[5],
English
[6]
and Japanese
[7]
magazines wrote about this event and made
interviews with him
[8].
He stayed
in Tokyo more than a month
training with Master
Oyama
who also ordered
Japan champion Senpai Matsui (2nd
Dan) to train with
Tarsha
in a private
lessons alone in addition to the black belt class
where both of them were training together with Master Oyama.
(Matsui
became in 1987 the World Champion, then became the successor of master Oyama
after his death in 1994). In this training trip
Adnan Tarsha got the (3rd
Dan) in Black Belt, which
was supposed to get it some years ago, but circumstances did not allow it.
When he decided to
travel from Tokyo, Master
Oyama prepared a
Farewell Ceremony
for him and presented several gifts
to
 him.
Master Oyama chosen his successful picture and published it on a
large full page in the
1983 year calendar
of
the International Karate Organization "I.K.O."
which distribute to the branches of the
organization around the world.
Master Oyama continued sending him a special
invitations to attend the
World Tournaments
in Tokyo as a special guest, and nominated him in 1990 to be the
chairman of
"I.K.O."
in the Middle East in addition to being
a "Branch Chief" of this organization
and has published his photo in the
Kyokushin Power Map
in the world as a candidate for the chairmanship
of group of Middle East branches chiefs.
And also has
published
his photos for the second time in the
1990 year calendar.
In 1996 Adnan Tarsha was appointed
as
"I.K.O."
Advisor in the Middle East, and In 2003 was
appointed by
"I.K.O."
as the Middle East Team Manager to the World Tournament in Japan.
Various Activities:
On the other hand,
and in 1983,
Adnan Tarsha produced the
first sport work of its kind in the Arab world
[9],
where he produced
two programs
of exercises
[10]
on video tape
[11]:
One for all kind of people and the other for
pregnant woman
[12].
Then in 1988 he
began presenting his program
"Come and Train"
in the Saudi
Arabian Television,
and was also the first exercises program of this kind in the Saudi TV
[13].
 The
instructor Adnan
Tarsha is teaching Kyokushin Karate in different public and
private
places, and organizes
camps
and
championships.
He and his sons
are also presenting
demonstrations
on different occasions,
participates by teams of his students in the local, regional and
international
championships. He is the
Supreme Judge or Chairman of
Judges Committee
or a member of Supreme Committee in the
championships in different countries. In 2001,
he
has published his own
website
www.adnantarsha.com
which is about his variety of activities such as:
His published Islamic books, his activities
in
Karate, his video programs of exercises, his sport program in the
Saudi
Television, his movie films,
a various video clips and scenes about these different activities
and various other topics
[14],
also has a channel on
youtube,
pages on
facebook
and other social media.
Shihan Adnan Tarsha
(8 Dan) is now a
Branch Chief of The International Karate Organization
"I.K.O."
since 1982. He is known as the oldest
Kyokushin instructor in the Middle East, and Founder
of Kyokushin in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1976
[15],
and has three sons
teaching
Kyokushin Karate
in different places:
Muhammad
Tarsha,
Abdullah
Tarsha,
Abdulaziz
Tarsha. |
