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| Master Benito Higa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2, 1940, the son of Master Jintatsu Higa, with whom he began practising karate-do. Alongside his university studies at the Faculty of Engineering, he devoted himself to baseball, a passion handed down to him by his father. In this sport, he was an Argentinian national first division champion as a player with the Seibu club. In the seventies he dedicated himself to practice and teaching karate-do, working together with his father and brother Oscar with the aim of promoting the discipline more widely throughout Argentina; he helped actively as an athlete having been Argentinian champion of kata. As an ardent devotee of Kobudo, a complementary activity to karate training, Benito Higa travelled to Okinawa several times, not only to perfect the art of karate in the Naha Hombu Dojo, where he trained with his uncle Master Yuchoku Higa and other eminent masters, but also in order to attend the dojo of the Master of sensei kobudo, Kataro Iha, president of the Ryu Kyu Kobudo Ryu Kon Kai, of whom he was a disciple.. |
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At present Master
B.Higa is a Kyoshi 7th Dan; he is vice-president of the World Okinawan Shorinryu Kyudokan
karate-do Federation, director and chief instructor of the Argentinian Karate-do Center,
responsible, along with his brother Oscar, for the Kyudokan School in Argentina and South
America, as well as being a member of the technical committee. He is the president and
technical director of the Argentinian Kobudo Association and Ryu Kyu Kobudo Ryu Kon Kai
representative for the whole of South America. He is a member of the organizing committee
for the diffusion of karate-do, of the Okinawan Center of Argentina, as well as chief
referee in national and international competitions. |
Master Benito Higa sees karate from a universal perspective; his thoughts can be summed up as follows: "...humanity is made up of different races, habits and customs, but when all is said and done, we must all converge towards a single common goal, based on unity and friendship, and also through the precepts of the "Do"; that is to say, the discovery, whist proceeding along "the path towards life", of the real aim of our existence".
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