The World Grandmaster Council, the foremost collective group of Accredited Internationally Recognized Masters and Grandmasters in the World, released their April – June 2026 newsletter. In it they announced the recent New Year Seminar held at the Methuen Karate Association dojo:
Also in Massachusetts news, the METHEUN KARATE ASSOCIATION (MKA) under GM Larry Giordano held its first-ever Winter Seminar on January 3rd of this year. The event was part of the NORTH AMERICAN KYOKUSHINKAI KARATE ORGANIZATION (NAKKO) transformative “Karate – Mind, body & spirit initiative. Designed to deepen the understanding of Karate beyond physical techniques”.
GM Larry Giordano & Metheun Karate’s first winter seminar
(GM Giordano is at far left standing)
The seminar was attended by students and instructors from the Methuen Karate dojo, the Tiger’s Quad dojo in Dorchester, and the Central Catholic High School Karate Club in Lawrence.