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Shotokan Karate-Do Academy of Serbia, Seminar in Nis, June 1993.

The spread of  Karate-Do on the territory of  the former Yugoslavia was closely connected with Taiji Kase Sensei.

From the early seventies until 1980 he was the Technical Advisor of the Karate Association of Yugoslavia. It was estimated that at that time Karate-Do was the second most popular sport in the country with almost 300.000 followers. During that period the National team of Yugoslavia was one of the leading in Europe and among the best in the world.

Due to the political changes and wars that followed from 1992, the  country broke up, and today there are five separate countries. During that time political,economical, and sport embargo was imposed on Serbia. It was in those difficult times that Shotokan Karate-Do Academy of Serbia was born. Taiji Kase Sensei was the first to break the sport embargo. He dared to come and show his devotion and loyalty to his students and with Sensei Velibor Dimitrijevic and Sensei Dragoslav Bozovic held a seminar in Nis. It was a pure spectacle.  For  two days almost 200 karateka attended the course and almost 3000 visitors had a privilege to see a great teacher again after many years. Two years later in 1995 he came again and two courses were held in Nis and in Belgrade.

The Shotokan Karate-Do Academy of Serbia is not a political organization. Following the Kase's Karate-Do concept, the main aim of the Serbian Academy is to educate and develop instructors, while accepting Karate-Do as a Budo martial art and life philosophy. Members of the Academy vary from instructors to high level competitors, as well as people who have minimal knowledge of karate. They all share the same passion, finding  the Academy idea as a real challenge to improve themselves.

Normally four to six instructor courses are organized during the year in different places in Serbia. Some of them are open courses and others are by invitation only. This is done in order to preserve the high level of training and the instructors improvement. Club courses are organized for all levels and ages in order to spread the idea and concept of Kase Ha Shotokan Ryu Karate-Do. Internal Academy competitions for all levels are organized when required.

Razvoj Karatea na prostorima bivse Jugoslavije vezan je za ime Taiji Kasea. Od pocetka sedamdesetih do 1980 godine on je bio Tehnicki savetnik  Karate Saveza Jugoslavije.   Veruje se da je u tom periodu  Karate bio drugi sport  po popularnosti u zemlji i procenjuje se da je imao preko 300 000 sledbenika.  U tom periodu Nacionalni tim Jugoslavije je bio jedan od vodecih u Evropi i medju najboljima u Svetu.

Nakon politickih promena i ratova koji su se dogodili nakon 1992 godine, zemlja se raspala i stvoreno je pet novih drzava.  Srbija je u tom periodu bila izlozena politickom, ekonomskom i sportskom embargu.  U tim teskim vremenima stvorena je Shotokan Karate-Do Akademija Srbije.  Demonstrirajuci svoju lojalnost i privrzenost sledbenicima Taiji Kase je imao hrabrosti i prihvatio poziv,  i sa sensei Veliborom Dimitrijevicem i Dragoslavom Bozovicem odrzao seminar u Nisu.  Bio je to pravi spektakl. U dvodnevnom seminaru ucestvovalo je 200 ucesnika a gotovo 3000 gledalaca je imalo privilegiju da nakon 13 godina ponovo uziva u majstorstvu velikog ucitelja.  Seminar je bio i prvi dogadjaj kojim je probijen sportski embargo u Srbiji. Taiji Kase je nakon dve godine, 1995, ponovo dosao u Srbiju i odrzao dva seminara, u Nisu i Beogradu.

Shotokan Karate-Do Akademija Srbije nije politicka organizacija.  U skladu sa Kazeovim konceptom karatea osnovni cilj Akademije je da skoluje i razvija instruktorski nivo u duhu Karate-Doa kao borilacke vestine i zivotne filozofije.  Medju clanovima Akademije se nalaze kako vrhunski instruktori i takmicari tako i oni sa minimalnim karate znanjem.  Svi oni dele zajednicku naklonost prema Akademiji i njenu ideju osecaju kao izazov ka licnom usavrsavanju.

Program rada Akademije podrazumeva  4-6 redovnih seminara tokom godine. Neki od njih su otvorenog tipa dok su drugi samo po pozivu kako bi se odrzao visoki standard razvoja instruktora.  U cilju pravilnog propagiranja Kase Ha Shotokan Ryu Karate-Doa organizuju se klupski seminari za sve nivoe i uzraste, a u istom cilju, po potrebi, i interna takmicenja Akademije.

Summer Camp 2005, on Vlasina Lake