Instructor Profile - Sensei Paul Uren

Chief Instructor Sensei Paul Uren 4th Dan   Sensei Paul Uren is the founder and chief instructor at Plymouth Karate-Do.  Paul started training in 1982 at the original Plymouth Karate Club, and became the junior instructor their in 1990.  After years assisting and learning under two excellent Sensei, he became chief instructor at his own club, Plymouth Karate-Do in 1998.  Paul is a former SEKU Open and SEKU national Kata champion, as well as training many other junior and senior champions. From 2006-2008 Paul was the head coach to the SEKU senior squad, during which the squad won 45 Gold medals. Plymouth Karate-Do Since forming his own club, Paul has enjoyed a huge amount of success at gradings, with more than twenty students of the club gaining Dan gradings during this time. Sensei Paul's personal achievements are listed below: Dan Gradings Yondan  -  September 2004 (Awarded by SEKU) Sandan  -  September 1994 (Awarded by SEKU) Nidan     -  November 1991 (Awarded by SEKU) Shodan  -  May 1987 (Awarded by SEKU) Other 9 grades up to Shodan were achieved between 1982 and 1986 Selected Competition Achivements Paul has been a junior and senior SEKU champion and has also achieved much success as head coach for Plymouth Karate-Do and the SEKU Squad. At senior level Paul has won numerous Individual and Team Kata titles at the SEKU Nationals/SEKU Open.  He has also been an Individual and Team Kumite medalist on many occassions and in 2003 Paul won the prestigious SEKU Technical Excellence award.  Paul has also been an Individual/Team medalist at many other tournaments outside of SEKU including the Legend Open, FEKO open and Slovakia Open. In 2007 and 2008, under Paul's leadership, the SEKU squad dominated the Shotokan Alliance events winning 45 Gold medals.  As well as this, Plymouth Karate-Do were the most successful club at the 2007 & 2008 SEKU championships and the 2006 & 2007 SEKU Open championships. On the 23/24 August 2008, two of Sensei Paul's students at Plymouth Karate-Do won individual Gold medals at the JSKA World Championships.  Shaun Eglinton and Scott Clements became the first SEKU individual World champions and Shaun also helped the veterans kumite team to the Gold as well. Paul was a proud member of the SEKU squad from 1993-1995 and again from 2003-2008. Thanks For over 25 years Paul has been lucky enough to have had guidance from some of the finest Shotokan exponents around.  Sensei Mick Dewey, Sensei Dave Hazard (now ASK) and Sensei Mervyn O'Donnell are three brilliant Karateka, who Paul is indebted to for their years of instruction and inspiration. At a local level, many people have helped Paul progress as a student and instructor. Most notably Karen Hicks and Shaun Eglinton gave Paul numerous years of great instruction and motivation which moulded him as a Karateka, more recently Steve Hollister has been a great source of help, as well as Sensei Donald McIntosh who has given great advice, knowledge and experience to Paul for over 20 years. Thank you Osu!

Instructor Profile - Sensei Shaun Eglinton

Sensei Shaun Eglinton 3rd Dan   Sensei Shaun Eglinton has trained in Shotokan Karate for over twenty years.  He is the current veterans JSKA World Kata Champion and veterans JSKA World Team Kumite Champion, and has had a great success as an instructor and competitor since he began training. Dan Gradings Sandan  -  1993 Nidan     -  1989 Shodan  -  1986 Selected Competition Achivements Since Shaun's return to training after a five year break, he has had a huge amount of competition success.  His titles include 3 SEKU kata titles and 2 SEKU Open Kata Golds as well as winning the Shobu Ippon Shotokan Open in 2007 and 2008.  He has also been a team kumite and team kata champion with Plymouth and the SEKU squad.   Prior to Shaun's break his finest acheivement was winning lightweight Kumite Gold at the EKGB nationals in 1993. Recently Shaun topped all of his acheivements by winning Gold in the veterans Kata at the JSKA World Championships on 23/24th August 2008.  Then at the same tournament he was part of the veterans Kumite Team which also won Gold for SEKU.