Sensei Guido has been practicing Shotokan Karate since 1982. He started training under
Senseis Ken Whitstock and Stan Schmidt in Randfontein, South Africa. After relocating to
Pretoria to attend University, Guido trained with the university Shotokan Karate team and soon
thereafter joined the SKI organization in Pretoria headed by Sensei Koos Burger and Soon
Pretorius. He graded for Ni - dan in 1991. While with the SKI, several seminars and training
camps were attended with the likes of Kanasawa Sensei, Norman Robinson, Mike Ducas and
Nigel Jackson Senseis. In 1995, Guido immigrated to the Netherlands where he trained with
Senseis Wilbert Derks and Eric van Uden. During his stay in the Netherlands, seminars were
attended with Kawawada Sensei, Sawada sensei, Enoeda sensei and others. A company
transfer brought Guido to Hillsboro, Oregon in 2000 where he initially trained with the JKF
organization for 2 years. He joined the Intel Shotokan Karate club and the AAKF in November
2002 where he taught classes at the Jones farm Dojo until 2005. Throughout his Karate career
Guido has dedicated much of his life to teaching traditional Shotokan karate to adults and
children. In 2005 he started his dojo in Hillsboro and began running a very successful Shotokan
karate program at an athletics club in Bethany a year later. In February 2007 he was awarded
his Sandan by Master Hidetaka Nishiyama 9th dan (JKA/AAKF/ITKF). Sensei Guido’s student
base now totals close to 100 students of all ages and rank.
Sensei Guido Fischer, San-dan (3rd dan)