Sensei Glen Moulds was born in Hull, Yorkshire in August
1957. Educated in Hull he joined the Army from 1972 to 1978
serving 4 years in Germany. It was here that he received
his first taste of the Martial Arts with a short course in
TaeKwonDo.
Leaving the Army to join the Metropolitan Police in 1979
Sensei Moulds then took up Shotokan Karate seriously under
Sensei Eddie Whitcher in Dagenham, Essex. Training was five
days a week compulsory to keep your place in the club and
was based on the JKA system where Sensei Whitcher had been
in the Instructors class.
Grading to Nidan (2nd Dan) under Sensei Whitcher the
highest Kata still taught was Bassai Dai.
Upon the death of Sensei Whitcher in 1990 Sensei Moulds was
handed the position of Chief Instructor of Kenshinkai. It
was Sensei Whitcher's last wish that Kenshinkai joins
Sensei Kanazawa and the SKI. A short while later S.K.K.I.F
(Shotokan Karate Kanazawa Ryu International Federation) was
formed dedicated to the teachings of Sensei Kanazawa.
Sensei Moulds was one of the founding members of SKKIF, holding a senior position in the organisation
and graded Sandan (3rd Dan) under Sensei Kanazawa in 1993.
Sensei Moulds went on to represent the S.K.K.I.F. England
squad in Las Vegas.
Four years later Sensei Moulds was a Detective Sergeant on
the ‘Flying squad’ and made the difficult decision to leave
the police force and follow the "dream" of teaching Karate
full time.
Due to the politics of ‘western non-gi-wearers’ Sensei
Moulds sadly resigned from S.K.K.I.F and joined a London
based Toyakwai group under Sensei Joe Anderson while waiting for the right moment to
rejoin a Japanese Karate organisation.
In January 2003 Sensei Moulds joined Kenshinkai to the
Japan Karate Association – UK (JKA-UK) under the guidance
of Senseis Robert Sidoli 7th Dan and Jim Lewis 7th Dan.
Within 9 months of joining Sensei was fulfilling his
lifetimes ambition and training in Japan with Sensei Mikio
Yahara 8th Dan. While there he paid his respects to the
graveside of Gichin Funakoshi.
In July 2005 Sensei Moulds sat and passed a grading examination in front of Sensei´s Yahara 8th Dan, Kawasaki
6th Dan, Sidoli 7th Dan, Lewis 7th Dan, McCusker 6th Dan, and several other senior ranks. As well as his 5th Dan Sensei
Moulds also successfully passed Japanese Examiners, Referees and Instructor qualifications. This was after a grueling 4
day course in 30 degrees of heat.
Sensei has had over 2500 students join him since 1990 and several of his students have gone on to attain high ranks such as Dave Lewin 4th Dan and , Geoff Mitchell 3rd Dan of the London Matsukai Karate Clubs and Dave Barker 3rd Dan head of KWF Norway. Christina Traher 2nd Dan is Captain of the Oxford Blues Karate Squad, and Jenan Wijayasri is Captain of the Cambridge Blues Karate Squad. Anil Bhudia in Australia and Bibhor Bannerjee of India. Sensei is proud of all his previous students who are spread across the world and who continue to either train or teach.
In 2006 Sensei Moulds built his own dojo incorporating a
fully equipped Gym for himself and his members to
enjoy.
For Sensei he has a beautiful wife Julie and 4 beautiful daughters Jade, Yasmin, Paris and Charlene, he has two beautiful Dojo´s and is about to start work building the 3rd and biggest one purely for his own members. He enjoys Archery with his friend Mac Robertson 5th Dan Kyokushinkai Karate and an occasional beer with his members.