HABERSETZER ROLAND (born 1942)
HABERSETZER ROLANDRoland Habersetzer was born in 1942.Since 1958 he is occupied with Karate and was one of the first black-belt-Karateka (1961) in France. Even before he practised Judo and Jiu-Jitsu.
He opened up a section Karate in the sports club of the university Strasbourg (France) in 1962.There he was headmaster / technical leader till 1990.
He attempted to promote the development of Karate in France at the organisation „Fédération Francaise de Karaté“ for ten years, but he was disappointed of the tendency to Sports-Karate. In contrast to that he understood Karate as a martial art, therefore he went his own way.
Thus he founded the „Centre de Recherche Budo“ (CRB), an organisation with the aim to lead back to the roots of the martial arts – not only for students of Karate.
Habersetzer learned among others under tutelage of OGURA TSUNEYOSHI, YAMAGUCHI GOGEN(„the cat“) and GIMA MAKOTO. In 1982 he got the 7th Dan from Ogura. One other teacher of Habersetzer was OTSUKA TADAHIKO, who is the leader of the Goju- Kensha- School.
Habersetzer is the author of more than 60 books and he regularly arranges courses in Europe. He deals with different Japanese martial arts, for example Wushu or Taijiquan. In 1992 he got the 8th Dan from Shihan Ogura for his intensive work for Budo.
The Hombu-Dojo of the CRB is situated in Strabourg, near the boarder to Germany.
Books of Habersetzer: Karate für Meister. Mit Körper und Geist
Copyright © by Thomas Heinze 2005 (www.kusunoki.de) - Translation : K. Birlem, A. Tille, Th. Heinze
last changes May 30th 2005
