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Karate
Alex Sternberg
- ALEX STERNBERG, the founder and chief instructor of Shotokan Karate USA, is a 7th dan from the prestigious International Shotokan Research Society. He has also earned a 6th Dan from the Japan Karate Association (JKA personally issued by Master Tetsuhiko Asai), the World Karate Federation (WKF-member of the International Olympic Committee), and the USA National Karate-do Federation (USA-NKF- member of the US Olympic Committee). He has been practicing Karate for over 45 years.
He began his karate training in 1962 at the age of 12, and attained the rank of Shodan in 1968, under Master George Cofield, one of America's early Karate pioneers. Dr. Sternberg was a prominent competitor from the 1960s through the early 1990s, winning close to 90 national and international events, including a bronze medal at the 1969 World Championships, organized by the International Convention of Martial Arts, the direct front runner for WUKO, later the World Karate Federation. Due to his outstanding tournament record, several US Karate magazines listed him in their “Top 10 Champions” category in 1974 and 1975. After retiring from active competition, he coached scores of United States National teams in junior and senior World Championships, Junior and Senior Pan American Championships, and World and Pan-American Maccabiah Games. As a coach, he has produced more medal winners for the USA than any other American coach.
Dr. Sternberg has been a leader of the USA karate development, spanning over thirty years, as a coach and referee in the AAU, USAKF and USANKF programs. He earned his national referee license in 1976 in the AAU program in Joplin, Missouri..
A founding member of the USA-NKF, he served as a Vice President, member of the Board of Directors and Team Selection Committee. His crowning achievement, however, was as the Chairman of the Referee Council from 1994-2000. During his tenure, he raised the number of referees in the USA-NKF from less than 40 to well over 300. In 2006, he was appointed to the USANKF Technical Committee and is presently the chairman of its Education sub-committee. He has been a member of the American College of Sports Medicine since 1988 and is the NY State Demonstration Center coordinator for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
He returned to graduate studies in the early 80’s and has earned a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology from Queens College (City University of NY) and a Doctorate in Sports Science (ERU). In 2007 he earned an additional Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. He has been spearheading research in respiratory physiology, sleep disordered breathing, exercise intolerance and asthma in his capacity as the Technical Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Function, Sleep and Exercise Physiology Laboratory at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn NY. He has published several books on the benefits of martial arts training and numerous articles related to his work in pediatric exercise physiology. His special area of interest is the application of karate training to increase fitness and in the weight management of obese children.
Hayashi Kino Ho (Woodside) Dojo of Kåze Arashi Ryu and Hoshiyama Shotokån Kårate