Seikido: Biography of Maxime Mazaltarim

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A Biography of Maxime Mazaltarim Doshu

      Maxime Mazaltarim was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He started studying Shotokai Karate in 1955, under the direction of Master Harada (founder of this methode). In 1959, he practices Judo (Kawashi) and Ju-Jitsu under Master Panza in Strasbourg (France), .

      He then quits university to travel to various countries of the Orient seeking to deepen his knowledge in the arts of breathing, Yoga, meditation and energy (Ki). In Japan, he trains in Shito-Ryu Karate under Master Tani, founder of Shukokai and meets in 1967 Master Yoshinao Nanbu, who later created Sankukai Karate (1969). He then becomes Nanbu's principal disciple.

      He arrives in Canada in 1966, where he meets several Karate practitioners. A year later, Yoshinao Nanbu Sensei comes to Montreal and authorizes Maxime Mazaltarim to teach Shito-Ryu . In 1969, Master Nanbu creates the Sankudo method wich draws its source from the Shotokan, Shito-Ryu and Goju-Ryu styles. Maxime Mazaltarim then opens several schools where he teaches and propagates this art.

      From 1969 to 1977 he also assists Master Nanbu during a number of proficiency workshops and training seminars taking place in various European and Far Eastern countries. He founds the Fédération canadienne Sankukai Inc. (Canadian Sankukai Federation Inc.) in 1972, wich allows to increase the number of adepts and to regroup the different regions where this style is practiced. He trains a group of black belts in order to further the teaching of Sankudo in various Quebec schools and Dojo. He becomes one of the main promoters of the first Nanbu-Sankukai Karate Championship taking place in Monte Carlo (Monaco).

      Chosen as technical and educational advisor to the Association Internationale de Karaté Sankukai (AIKS) (International Sankukai Karate Association) in 1976, he heads training camps in Marseille, Arles and Salan de Giro (France), and the following year in Nice (France) as well as in Florida (U.S.A.).

      He also went on several training trips in more than sixty countries: Cameroun, Côte d'Ivoire, Iles Maurice, Iles de la Réunion, Togo, Taipei, Australia and Honolulu in 1974, in Lomvivien, Norway, in 1975, Bruxelles, Belgium, in 1975-1976, Monaco, in 1976-1977, Fort Lauderdale (U.S.A.), in 1977, Los Angeles in 1978, Longport, New Jersey in 1984, in Spain in Playa de Aro, Costa Brava and in France, from Britany to the Riviera including the Université de Jussieux in Paris, for Taijitsu International, as well as in Japan in Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Ako and Chimane.

      Maxime Mazaltarim equally works within the Fédération Québécoise de Karaté et des Arts Martiaux Affinitaires (Quebec Karate and related Martial Arts Federation, the only institution recognised ans subsidised by the Quebec gouvernment) as a member of the Technical Commission and the Refereeing Commission and also as an administrator. He holds the Federation's presidency from 1980 to 1982.

He founds a new method in 1978 : "Seikido", wich he introduces that year on "Second Regard", a program on the national television network (C.B.C.). Seikido International's incorporation chart is drawn in june 1981. This corporation also houses Seiki-Jutsu, a non-competitive self-defense technique addressing men as well as women, and Seiki Taiso, a form of energy gymnastic .

He then trains black belts in Seikido, opens schools in the Montreal region, multiplies his international contacts, sets up and heads intensive seminars every year in the U.S.A.. Two workshops take place yearly, allowing a deeper practice of meditation and a priviledged study of techniques refering to symbolic universal body movements.

      During the fall of 1982, Tai-Jitsu International asks him to head a proficiency workshop. Representatives from the Fédération Internationale de Ju-Jitsu et Tai-Jitsu (International Ju-Jitsu and Tai-Jitsu Federation) including master Roland Hernaez (6th dan) from Austria and master Henegan (7th dan) from Australia are present. During that same period, he heads an other seminar in Marseille (Provence), gathering several tens of practitioners.

      In February of 1984, he gives a seminar in New-Jersey to over two hundred advanced students from eleven different Karate schools. Maxime Mazaltarim is then recognised as an authentic master, these Martial Arts student thus showing their need of guidance in their philosophical journey.

      Moreover, he lends his martial arts expertise to the Commission on implemantation of martial arts study. This commission mandated by the "Ministère du Loisir, de la Chasse et de la Pêche" handed a report to the minister. The commission's prime objective was to run an exhaustive study on all self-defense, Karate, Wendo and other martial arts classes listed and offered to women in Quebec as well as to present means to better the aquisition of the physical reflexes of self-defense.

      In light of that aquired expertise, Maxime Mazalatarim conceived a complete self-defense study for women named "Prevention face à la Violence" (prevention against violence) that is now part of the regular cursus of Lasalle College (private school) in Montreal (Canada).

      In September of 1991, he becomes the first male teacher at the YWCA in Montreal since he was asked by head of tuition to offer prevention against violence classes to the women who wished so.

      The number of martial arts practitioners who benefited from Maxime Mazaltarim's teaching stands in the thousands including many black belts who now successfully promote Seikido on an international level.

      Expansion of the Art of Seikido has reached over the Atlantic ocean. Maxime keeps making new international contacts and new schools incorporate Seikido International.

      By his neverending engagement, Maxime Mazaltarim has made of the Art of Seikido a living source of development on the levels of physical, philosophical and spiritual energy. But who is really Maxime Mazaltarim? You will discover more by reading this message he wrote.

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