Sensei Antonio Cadeddu 4dan born In Verbania Pallanza 04/12/1967 at present living in Sudbury (Suffolk) England .I started to practice Martial Arts when I was very young, my first taste was in the form of
Tai Chi Chuan style (Chen) watching this fluid movement and so powerful .
after spending 8 years studying and practising this style I travelled around
Italy many times to do some courses with different International Instructors.
During my travel I met lots of people as equally enthusiastic as me too share information and new techniques. I remember meeting an Aikido teacher who was talking about Ueshiba Shirai a man who delivered a lot of power and throwing people on the other side of the tatami in just a single and easy movement.( looks & sounds easy but is not ) i think that was the reason I swapped to Aikido.
As I was still learning I grew curios about the differences and I wanted to learn a new and possibly better style. The more interesting aspects for me were 1) Grabbing 2) Locking 3) Throwing,and more importantly using your opponent’s power, size and strength against them.
My first teacher in Aikido was Sensei Carta who now holds a 5 Dan in aikido and 6 dan Judo ex Italian Squat,
I spent 9 years training to achieve my Nidan, in this period of time i been all over Italy, Switzerland, Germany in different courses with different instructors of Aikido During my studies I also practiced Karate Shotokan, in 1980 I belonged to the FIKTEDA which was founded From M* Hiroshi Shirai.
I was very surprised by the way he demonstrated the techniques of the kata or how to apply and most importantly he was always there for any questions .I studied and completed many courses all around Italy with very good Italian’s. Filippo Masi 6 time European champion in Kumite, or Sensei Gianni Pera, Carl Henke,Sensei Carlo Fugazza, i remember travelling miles just to be there in any course where there was always something new to learn. In 2002/03 I arrived in England where I found many good federations to join and chose the TSKA (traditional Shotokan Karate Association) which was running under Peter Manning, a 6 dan and Chairman of the some association and Vice Chairman of Nakmas National Governing Body www.nakmas.org.uk In 2003 I moved to Sudbury, Suffolk and I joined the JKA under Chief Instructor Sensei Y. Otha. but I spent only 2 years here. In the same year I started to training In stoke -by-nayland he opened his club almost 6 years ago which belongs to the KUGB Opened in 1967 from Sensei Enoeda Now under the chief and Chairmen Sensei Andy Sherry, 8 dan (click images) which regularly come down from Liverpool to do the grading and Courses. Since the day I joined KUGB I have completed many other courses with Sensei Simon Oliver, 5 dan http://www.budopromotions.co.uk/.
At present as you can see, I run my own club Under the federation KUGB Lately I attended a course with Sensei Akita, 5 Dan, in the Kent area.