O'sensei Urban And Verycken

1970 Cover of Official Karate Magazine

O'Sensei Urban copyright by E.J. Verycken photo background taken from O'Sensei Sensei Urban's diploma.

O'Sensei Urban and Verycken 1972 at the first South Jersey karate tournament held at the Cape May NJ Convention hall - Sensei Verycken promoted this tournament

O'Sensei Urban

and Fidel Montalvan

1St. World Cup

Master Urban and Master Nagle

"THAT WAS THEN"

WHEN MAN WAS MAN & SENSEIS TOO

"The essence of the style is shown in this Photo"

O'Sensei Urban and Grand Master Don Nagle

1970s Alex Saavedra and Sensei Meir - Alex executes a punch to the face, all of the photos taken on the beach were actual fighting scenes.

Alex Saavedra and Manning Meir - Alex executing a roundhouse kick to the face, the photo was taken with a high speed camera

Alex Saavedra and Manning Meir executing a kick to Alex's face, this photo was also taken with a high-speed camera.

Alex Saavedra flying jump kick to Manning Meir,

Wildwood NJ 1970's, Alex executing a jump kick, also taken with a high-speed camera

Sensei Verycken executing a back kick to Sensei Meir-photo taken with a high speed camera; improving balance on jettys at Cape May Point, NJ - 1970s

Alex Saavedra Sensei Verycken and Manning Meir.

Wildwood NJ 1970's

Alex Saavedra Sensei Verycken and Manning Meir,

Wildwood NJ 1970's performing Kata on the Wildwood Beach

Sensei Saavedra and Sensei Gonzalez at their Union City Dojo

Sensei Saavedra at his Union City New Jersey Dojo, Sensei Gonzalez on the left-hand side of the photo.

Sensei Gonzalez giving a demonstration with the sword

Master Ed. Doyle

Karate Club A-Z

Sensei Verycken's Karate Club

1962 O'Sensei Urban's Karate-Ka

O'Sensei Urban

and Sensei Mayers

Sensei Verycken jump kick

on Sensei Doyle

Sensei Doyle

Verycken and others

Wooster DoJo

1968

Verycken Doyle

and others

Wooster St. DoJo

1968

Doyle Verycken

and others

Sensei Doyle, Cavallero

and Master Nagle

Master Padu

and Sensei Venneri

Masters Padu, Funakoshi

and Venngi

Master Doyles Karate Club in Arizona

Master Alexander and Sensei Venngi

Master Hess

Msater Hess his wife

and Sons

N Wildwood Karate club

Master Hess building

his Karate club in Wildwood NJ

With his # 1 Black belt Dave Millard

Sensei Verycken with his student

Sensei Hess teaching law enforcement

with the use of the Nunchaku

Master Hess

Karate Club N Wildwood NJ

1970's

O'Sensei Urban

copyright by E.J. Verycken

Master Hess

Sensei Verycken's Neko Ashi Karate Club In Maine

Shihan Doyle, Ray Herrmann and Ed Verycken

Sensei Verycken's Karate Club in Maine, Sensei Verycken's student Bill Flynn Founder

O'Sensei Urbans original patch the MKS stands for the Metropolitan karate society

Sensei Verycken's Neko Ashi GoJu Karate Club 1980's

1962

Meeting Slated

By Black Belts

Masters Padu & Venngri

Master Hess and Verycken Teaching Nunchaku to 100 Police Officers from Cape May County

Master Hess and Verycken Teaching Police the Nunchaku

1970's

1971 O'Sensei Urban In Vineland NJ"Ai Ki Jiu Jitsu"

DoJo

Sensei Padu and O'Sensei Urban in the old days - Sensei Urban executing a flying jump kick 1960's, at this time Sensei Urban was still teaching JapaneseGoJu--Ryu.

Sensei Venngri, Master Vanclef and Master Padu

O'Sensei Urban teaching in Puerto Rico photo #1

O'Sensei Urban teaching in Puerto Rico photo #2

Photo #1 - Cape May County Karate Club - Sensei Petschler executing a kick to Sensei Pascetta.

Photo #2 - Cape May County Karate Club - Senseis Pascetta and Petschler - late 1970s.

Photo #3 - Cape May County Karate Club - Sensei Verycken's students: Rick Pascetta and Howard Petschler - photo taken with high speed camera by Sensei Verycken - late 1970s.

Sensei Verycken's Cape May County Karate Club - Sensei Alex Saavedra and Sensei Meir

Brenda Hess and her sons, Johnny & Joey 1970s

Sensei Hess, with his wife, Brenda and sons, Johnny and Joey - photo taken by Sensei Verycken - 1970s.

Sensei Joe Hess at his North Wildwood Karate Club, posing with a promotional certificate for Sensei Hach left to right: Senseis Goodman, Hatch, Hess, and Millard - mid 1970s.

Sensei Verycken performing a demonstration for 2nd graders as the Karate Clown.

Sensei Father Will's Dojo in Georgia.

Sensei Verycken posing for his coloring book, The Karate Clown, on Child Safety. Sensei Verycken visited many Schools, campaigning his coloring book.

Sensei Verycken's Neko Ashi Goju Karate Club - George Ragu and Rob Smithgall - 1980s.

Sensei Verycken demonstrating slicing a potato in half on Sensei Millard's stomach - this is a skill - Do not attempt to try this! Photo taken at the Wildwood High School Gym in the late 1970s.

Sensei Verycken free-sparring with his student, Sensei Smithgall.

O'Sensei Urban at his home in Woodlynne NJ, watching over his dog.

Sensei Mike Hurley's Karate Dojo in Florida.

Sensei Joe Hess - at the time, a 3rd Degree Black Belt student of Sensei Verycken, already cleaning up the tournament scene.

Sensei Joe Hess promoting his student, Dave Millard at the North Wildwood, NJ Karate Club in early 1970s.

Sensei Ray Hermann's Fighting Tiger Dojo - photo taken after first Seminar.

Sensei Ray Hermann's Fighting Tiger Dojo - photo taken after Seminar - 2007

Ray Hermann's Fighting Tigers Dojo.

Sai Seminar By Shihan Verycken.

Senseis Verycken and Doyle at Wooster St. Dojo.

Kaaaaaaa Korner By O'Sensei Urban

Sensei Verycken's Neko Ashi Goju Karate Club early 1980s - From left to right: Senseis Solis, Chris Leahy, Bill Leahy and Rob Smithgall

Senseis Doyle and Verycken working out at the Wooster St. Dojo in NY.

Joseph Leahy was a Vietnam vet, he received a number of medals while stationed in Vietnam, His platoon was sprayed with agent orange and, after returning to the states, he slowly started to deteriorate and was placed on multiple medications. He suffered every day of his life but never gave up hope, his meditating power was un-believable; he recently passed on. Joe's favorite book was The Karate Dojo and he could recite the entire book. Please read his prayer on Infinite Stillness

This award was given to Shihan Verycken by Joseph Leahy's family. It is an award that was given to Joseph Leahy by the President of the United States; Shihan Verycken was Joseph Leahy's Sensei since the early 1970s.

Infinite Stillness by Joseph Leahy 1995.

Master Woodbury, Venneri and Dr. Padu. 1998

1969; Master Joe Louis and Verycken after teaching a Seminar in Bridgeton N.J. Sensei Louis asked Sensei Verycken if he would like to box with him, Verycken accepted the challenge, of course he was no match for the heavyweight Joe Louis. Verycken stated Joe Lewis could have creamed me however he was a real gentleman and taught me a great deal in boxing.

O'Sensei Urban,s 1st. Dojo at 13th St. Union City, New Jersey. This photo was very old, I touched it up the best I could. The sign over the windows was also touched up, the original sign said Goju - Ryu Karatedo school of self-defense.

Hoboken YMCA, O'Sensei Urban taught here for three months before moving to New York, teaching at the JuDo Twins Dojo. Senseis Verycken, Shaffer, and O'Sensei Urban's relative, Kenny Urban, helped teach at the Hoboken YMCA

Crosby St, Dojo, one block away was Canal Street, I often visited Sensei on Saturdays. He would always send me around the corner to buy a chocolate malt, that was one of his favorite breakfasts. Six blocks away was Chinatown, we often went there for dinner or lunch. He also liked going to the Chinese movie theater, sometimes after the movie we would go back to his Dojo and practice some of the moves from the movie

Masters Kim, Norris, Funakshi and Venneri

Masters Venneri, Vancliff and GM Dr Padu-1998

Back in the early 60s Shihan Verycken was a Boy Scout leader of troop # 2 in Hoboken N.J. He always enjoyed working out with youth groups, in this photo he is teaching a Boy Scout troop in North Wildwood N.J. He would teach a number of youth groups absolutely free. Photo taken in 1989.

The black round disc on the ceiling was one of the training aids that O'Sensei Urban created. We used to do jump kicks and tried to kick it with the ball of our foot, if you did not kick it exactly right you could break your toe.

The following photos were taken in the old days at the Metropolitan Karate Society. Freestyle fighting was rough and tumble, there was no such thing as protective gear

This photo of Louis Delgado and Verycken free sparring was taken before Delgado moved to California. When Sensei Delgado came back to New Jersey he, along with O'Sensei Urban, Verycken and Ric Pascetta, had very hard workouts at Pascetta's Dojo in South Jersey

Respect between teacher and students was mandatory

In this photo students are executing double punching techniques. All workouts were non stop, some workouts lasted three hours

We would spend 15 to 20 minutes just on the ground fighting techniques alone

When O'Sensei Urban shouted lineup there was never any hesitation, one could hear a pin drop. There was complete silence as we all patiently waited for O'Sensei to enter the dojo floor

O'Sensei Urban's first command was Zar-Zan, all of the black belts would line up right to left followed by the brown belts, purple belts, green belts and so on down the line; sometimes on the right side and left side of him were his two highest rank black belts.

After bowing to one another the workouts immediately began, after all warm-up exercises a double line system was formed. In the double line system a number of exercises were executed, the exercise in the photo on your left is called pulling

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