​Shotokan Karate Academy

Ehsan Malaki is currently official representative of Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation (SKIF) in British Columbia and chief instructor of Shotokan Karate Academy.

 

He started Shotokan karate in 1978 and received his first degree black belt (Shodan) in 1983.

 

In 1988 he joined Shotokan Karate International Federation (SKIF) and was training and teaching at Iran's SKIF head quarter between 1988 and 1991.

 

In 1989 he started Electrical Engineering program at IUST (Iran University of Science and Technology). He was the head coach of IUST from 1989 to 1993. During this time, he became 4 times champion of all Iran university championships. He graduated from university as top student in 1993. His thesis was "Digital Makiwara" that was able to measure power and speed of karate techniques by using computer analysis.

 

In 1991 he opened his own Dojo and continued teaching Shotokan karate until he moved to Canada in 1998.

 

He was coaching team BC (British Colombia) in 2003-2004. In 2006 he received his 5th degree black belt (Go Dan) from kancho Hirokazu Kanazawa and holding 7th degree black belt (Shichi Dan) from Iran Karate-do Federation. He is also a member and certified coach of Karate BC.

 

Because of his engineering background he made lots of research in mathematics and dynamic of karate techniques and movements. He has very vast knowledge of Kihon, Kata, Bunkai (Kata application) and different types of Kumite.

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Ehsan is an entrepreneur and investor in technology and healthcare sector, also involve in some development projects as an investor. He is the Co-Founder of Promis Medical Centre (www.promismed.ca) and Georgia Healthcare Centre (www.georgiahealth.ca).