Ramón Zambrano

Director and guide of USKTV

Hanshi Ramón Zambrano, 9th Dan, is the current director of the Traditional Shotokan Karate Union of Venezuela (USKTV) and a reference for traditional karate in the country. A student of Hanshi Vincent Cruz, he embodies the fourth generation of the lineage that began with Funakoshi.

Dojo Ishiyama

From Dojo Ishiyama in San Cristóbal, Táchira state, Hanshi Zambrano leads the training of instructors and students throughout Venezuela. He has delivered seminars, grading examinations and refereeing courses, sustaining the high technical and ethical standard proper to traditional karate.

Mission

Under his direction, USKTV has consolidated as the association uniting Venezuelan dojos committed to tradition. His work joins two inseparable demands: fidelity to the lineage and complete formation of the practitioner — karate as art, as discipline and as a way.

"Karate is not only technique. It is a way of life practiced every day, inside and outside the dojo."