{"id":118,"date":"2013-01-21T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.120.172.158\/~martial\/?p=118"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:54:40","slug":"sensei-george-kotaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/21\/sensei-george-kotaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensei George Kotaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-119\" alt=\"Sensei George Kotaka\" src=\"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sensei-George-Kotaka.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sensei-George-Kotaka.jpg 275w, https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sensei-George-Kotaka-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>George Kotaka Sensei was born on July 28, 1977, in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 He began karate at age 3 under his father, Chuzo Kotaka Sensei.\u00a0 George tested his skills on a national level at the 1988 AAU National Championships in Richmond, Virginia, where he won gold medals in kobudo, kata, and kumite.\u00a0 In 1996, George made the USANKF national team.\u00a0 Since then he has won at the WKF Jr. World, Pan American, Pan Am Games, World Collegiate, and most notably, two World Karate Federation gold medals and a bronze medal.\u00a0 His last competition was the 19th WKF World Championships held in Tokyo, Japan, on November 15, 2008. After Tokyo he retired from competition.\u00a0 Since then he has devoted his time to teaching his students in hopes of a future champion in the years to come.\u00a0 George credits his father and his mentor John Limcaco Sensei, as being most inspirational to him.\u00a0 George currently teaches at 5 different dojos on the island of Oahu and travels around the world to conduct seminars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Kotaka Sensei was born on July 28, 1977, in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 He began karate at age 3 under his father, Chuzo Kotaka Sensei.\u00a0 George tested his skills on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masters-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkfhonbudojo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}