I started writing articles when I was twenty-two years old – what did I know? Four short years earlier my A Level history teacher had called me semi-illiterate after I handed in a sloppily written essay. However, youth is wasted on the young and wisdom is wasted on the old. With childlike...
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It was July 2002 and Scott Langley had just graduated from the Japanese Instructors’ Course in Tokyo. He returned to Europe with a mandate to build a strong karate group in the UK and Ireland. In a decade that witnessed the implosion of most groups, he built up one of the largest organizations in...
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The Japanese Instructors’ Course is infamous in the Karate world. In 1997 it had been running for 50 years, with less than one hundred people successfully completing it – only four of which had been non-Japanese. In the same year Scott Langley was at the top of his game, a third degree black...
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