{"id":15,"date":"2021-03-31T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:02:20","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"gmba7c287\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4 section-gmba7c287 gutentor-module gutentor-advanced-columns\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div id=\"col-gm787511\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gm787511 gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-4 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gm787511\" class=\"section-gm787511 gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/shikon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Steve-and-Toru-Facing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"col-gmdcbcc7\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gmdcbcc7 gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-8 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gmdcbcc7\" class=\"section-gmdcbcc7 gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Shi Kon Martial Arts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shi Kon Martial Arts was established in 1988 By Steve Rowe and named by his Iaido Instructor Okimitsu Fujii who drew the calligraphy that hangs in the Chatham Honbu Dojo.\u00a0 Shi Kon means &#8216;Warrior Spirit&#8217; being the spirit or heart of a cultured Samurai warrior.\u00a0 Shi Kon is the coming together of Steve&#8217;s training in Karate under the late Toru Takamizawa (he was the Chairman of the Takamizawa Institute of Karate), his Tai Chi training under James Uglow and Ma Lee Yang, his Iaido training under Okimitsu Fuji and Vic Cook and his Jodo training with Vic Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shi Kon has affiliated clubs all over England and in the Czech Republic. It is recognised by the British Council For Chinese Martial Arts and Sport England who have recognised it with Clubmark accreditation. It is also approved by the Safeguarding Code In Martial Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a community association Shi Kon work with many local, national and international charities, taking part in many of their events.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shi Kon Martial Arts was established in 1988 By Steve Rowe and named by his Iaido Instructor Okimitsu Fuji who drew the calligraphy that hangs in the Chatham Honbu Dojo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shikon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}