Raffi Liven
About Kancho Liven, 10th dan, The Master of
Sho Shin Do and Krav Maga LI:
Kancho Liven was born in Tel Aviv on the 3rd
of
march, 1949 and has lived in Denmark since 1981.
Kancho Liven started training karate when he was 6 and got graduated with
the first Dan
at the age of
15.
Since then,
he has trained many different systems,
including:
karate( Kyokushinkai - Shotokan), thai-boxing, kendo, judo, aikido, kobudo, kick-boxing,
Krav Maga and
full-contact karate in which he also won 2 European championships.
Kancho
Liven has a lot winnings in underground street fighting with no rules - He won
all his fights.
In 1967
Kancho Liven fought the 6-days war and in 1973 in the Yom-Kippur-war and
worked after as an instructor for the special forces in Israel.
After his time in the military he traveled a lot and went for a longer time
to Japan to train under the masters of the originally Okinawa-te and to take
part on many competitions. At all the places he came to he was invited to
teach Karate and self defence.
During
1977-1978 he worked as a bodyguard for a president on the island of
Martinique. Also in this years he became two times a european champion in
Full-contact Karate.
In 1980 the doctors found a malignant tumor in Shihan Livens sinus. Allready
short after the dangerous surgery and irradiation he started slowly training
again, and as he explains it himself the physically and mentally power which
he dad developed through the many years of intensive training helped him to
defeat the cancer. In 1981 Shihan Liven was invited to Norway to prepare the
norwegian nationalteam for the European Championchip and there he found out
that the cool climate was good for his health. He decided to settle down in
a country with a climate like in Norway. At the end of 1981 he moved to
Denmark and started his first school for Karate there.
As a way of
keeping his mind and body fit, Kancho Liven practices Tamashiwari - The art
of breaking - A discipline in which he is truly a master as he holds several
world records!!
Kancho Liven demonstrations
