Professor George Canning Snr

George Canning Snr is a renowned martial artist. Some refer to him as the "Godfather". George spent most of his life practicing martial arts. In the blink of an eye, this man can still drop into the full box splits at 80 years, which is something students a quarter of his age struggle to do at times. George is the brains behind Mugendo and its development. He took different aspects of other martial art forms and combined them to develop Mugendo

His passion for martial arts developed while serving in the Royal Engineers from 1959 - 1965. It started with boxing and led onto unarmed combat techniques, Judo and Ju-Jitsu. After leaving the army, George wanted to become more involved with martial arts so began training in Wado Ryu Karate in 1968 under the teachings of Peter Suzaki. George received his 1st Dan in July 1973. While learning from Peter Suzaki, George began establishing and growing Wado Ryu in Ireland and later on became the President of the Irish Karate Federation.

By 1980 George had attained the level of 5th Dan and was begining the development of Mugendo.

In the early eigthies George was conferred with the title of Professor in Croatia. Professor George Canning is also highly involved in Bio- Energy Healing. A technic he learned while out in Yugoslavia. George currently is active martial arts and retired from healing. He takes both sides of his life very seriously.

Achievements Grade	Date	Grading Authority	Technical Positiions Held Organisation	Position
1st Dan	08/07/73	All Japan Karate Do Federation	British Karate Control Board	Referee / Judge
2nd Dan	06/10/74	All Japan Karate Do Federation	European Karate Union	Referee / Judge
3rd Dan	01/11/75	Amateur Karate Association	UK Karate Federation	Referee / Judge
4th Dan	15/04/78	Irish Karate Do Technical Committee	World All Styles Karate Federation	Referee / Judge
5th Dan	08/10/80	Irish Karate Do Technical Committee	Irish Karate Do Federation	Chief Referee / Judge
6th Dan	21/10/83	Mugendo International	Mugendo Intrnational World Mugendo Organisation	Chief Referee / Judge
7th Dan	24/04/84	Mugendo International	University Of Mugendo	Chief Referee / Judge
8th Dan	03/11/85	Mugendo International	All Ireland Karate Do	Wado Kai
9th Dan	Obligatory		England Karate Do	Wado Kai
10th Dan	Obligatory		W.U.K.O Referee Course WACO and WAKO	Chief Referee

Honorary Member Organisation	Expert	Founder of the following organisations
Kempo Int	Ed Parker	Irish Karate Do Federation
Hagishi Karate Do	Peter Spanton	Irish Karate Control Board ( Head of Technical Committee )
Taekwon Do Association of Great Britain	Dave Oliver	Mugendo International
England Karate Do Wado Kia	Wally Seaton	World Mugendo Intrnational
Iwinish Ryu	Ticky Donovan	University of Mugendo
Bristish Association Ren Shin Kia	Joe Johal	All Ireland karate Do Wado Kia
Wing Chun School of Kung Fu	Wally Dillon
New Zealand Chi Kuen Jow Association Kung Fu

World Mugendo University

Professor George Canning Snr