Instructors

Chief instructor – Sensei Rangan Ravindran, 5^th dan

Rangan has been training martial arts for over 30 years and started training Shotokan Karate with Rick Jackson in 1996 at the University of Leicester. Rangan has trained in a variety of martial arts including Judo, Muay thai, Goju-ryu karate however his core training is fudochi shotokan and has undertaken all his gradings under Sensei Jackson.

Rangan has over 10 years of karate teaching experience at the University of Leicester and has also 14 years of experience in Muto-Ryu Iaido (Japanese Sword).

For information visit Surrey Fudochi club.

Instructor – Sensei Alice Guellich, 1^st dan

Alice first started karate as a teenager in 2001. Alice quickly found her love for the shotokan style and discipline. Gaining all of her kyu grade belts by the time she was 18. Unfortunately failing her Shodan grading at 19 and life getting in the way meant that she took a 13 year break from karate till the age of 32. That was when Alice found Kanshin karate club in Jan 2021 and started training again towards 1st Dan and finally passing after almost 2 years of constant training in April 2023. Alice started helping out teaching the kids classes on a Tuesday with Avi and took over teaching them soon after.

Founding instructor – Sensei Neil Jerome, 6^th dan

Kanshin Karate was created as a sister club to Neil’s own successful club in Sutton – Kenmei Karate – and follows the same philosophy toward karate training and teaching. Neil was the inspiration behind the creation of the club, helped greatly in setting it up and initially taught all the lessons.

Neil has relocated to Norway where he reopened Kenmei, but he continues to teach at Kanshin occasionally.

Instructor – Sensei Avi Wolfsthal, 1^st dan

Avi was born in 1969 in Israel and moved to the UK in 1997. He works as an IT consultant and holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science. Avi started training in 2011 at the Rising Sun Karate academy in Woking under Sensei Jamie Sims. Whilst still a brown belt he qualified as an assistant instructor under Sensei Neil Jerome and together they set up Kanshin Karate in Guildford. Avi passed his shodan in 2014 and then taught most of the lesson until moving away at the end of 2023.