IOGKF International Magazine | Page 19

This Gasshuku had a special feel about it from the moment the idea was conceived, a feeling born of historic prestige and achievement. 40 years is worth celebrating for any organisation but for the EGKA the journey has been very special, a journey inspired and led by some of the finest martial artists past and present. A total of 462 individual Karate-ka registered for the Gasshuku Including representatives from Denmark, Spain, Iceland, Scotland, France & Belgium. On the English Goju-Ryu Karate Association (EGKA) webpage set up for the Gasshuku Sensei Ernie voiced his thoughts It seems a life time ago when Sensei James Rousseau formed what was to become the EGKA in1973, and it is