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Young “ninjas” learning valuable lessons- Inside a modest building located on Sandbank Road in Cheshire, students are hard at work learning the basics of martial arts, the “unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul,” as the late Bruce Lee once put it.Bergamo’s Martial Arts’...
March 8, 2021 Share this post: Sensei Deborah Jn. Baptiste is a practitioner of a brand of traditional Shotokan Karate developed by the late Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa of Japan who visited Saint Lucia in 2001. She has been a practitioner of Shotokan Karate for the past 30 years. She holds the rank of 4th degree Black Belt from Shotokan Karate-do International Federation (SKIF-Japan) Headquartered in Japan. She is a Founding and Executive Member of Shotokan Karate-do International Federation Saint Lucia (SKIF-Saint Lucia) and Zanshin Karate Dojo. She is co-instructor with Sensei Ezra Jn. Baptist...