Kim Dunn

KIM DUNN, Shihan 8th Dan

(“Shihan”…Teacher/Instructor of high rank)
 
An Instructor of traditional Karate and self-defense, Kim Dunn has over 50 years of teaching & training experience. He has also studied a variety of martial arts including… Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Judo and Muay Thai. 

Kim has been awarded Black Belt Dan certification from such renowned teachers as Kancho Takemasa Okuyama, Soke Takayuki Kubota (IKA) and the late O-Sensei Masami Tsuruoka and the late Sensei Kim-Hooi Wong.

An accomplished competitor, Kim was a 3-time recipient of the prestigious “Ontario Sports Achievement Award” presented by the Government of Ontario. He competed 4 times at the annual National Black Belt Championships winning a total of 3 Gold medals, a silver and bronze. Kim was also the reigning “Ontario Black Belt Kata Champion” from 1983 -1986. He qualified for the National team 3 times and represented Canada at such events as the AAKF USA National Championships in San Francisco and at the 4TH IAKF World Karate-Do Championships in Cairo, Egypt 1983. In 1994 he was selected to co-coach the winning Ontario Black Belt Team for 4 consecutive years. 

In 2017 a momentous accolade was awarded to Kim Dunn Hanshi. He was one out of nine martial artists inducted into the prestigious Canadian Black Belt Hall of Fame, an honour shared by world famous martial arts masters. 

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