Sensei Elodia Flores

Sensei Elodia P. Flores is a Yon Dan in the Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Association. She is under Taketo Nakamura Chomo Grand Master of the Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Association. She started karate in Okinawa with Sensei Odo 1976-1981. She lived on top of Sensei Odo’s dojo with her husband Nick and her two sons Gonzalo and Juan. She has a dojo in George West Texas. She teaches kids under nine years of age and all females. She is the senior Sensei and Director of, The All Women Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo Association. Susi Shmitt is her Assistant Director.

While training in Okinawa she used to Bogu Kumite with Marines and did knock out a few, she also got knocked out herself, “Win a few, loose a few, but never quit.”

She strikes the machi wara 100 times each morning and does her kata and yoga. She is a very private person and does not like publicity. She teaches The Old Way, maybe one kata every two or three years. She teaches as she was taught by Sensei Shigeru Odo, Maehara, Hanzen, Hideyko, and Gushiken Tokobu without any change to their teaching. She also had a private Sensei, Nakamoto. He used to practice with Choki Motobu.

She gave a seminar to her son’s Dojo in Portland Oregon only because he is her son.

She is like the old Sensei’s of Okinawa where they did not go around giving seminars for their ego and money, but stayed in their dojo’s doing kata. If somebody wanted to learn they go to the Sensei. The Sensei does not go to them.

She got introduced to karate December 1965 when her husband, then her boyfriend, came back from Viet Nam. She got married to Nick Flores 12/9/1967 and started going to the Dojo of the gym of where-ever her husband was teaching. She considers her real training only in Okinawa starting in 1976.

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