Congratulation to Lee Adams on his August 5, 2018 promotion to 7th degree Black Belt. IUKF President Darin Yee attended the promotional.

I want to thank Sensei George Mattson for his trust in me to carry on the IUKF as president. Along with this position comes a huge responsibility involving fairness, compassion and understanding while keeping in mind our enormous affiliations throughout the world.  We must also maintain our insistence to all rules and guidelines with no …

Announcing the 1st IUKF annual golf tournament. Our tournament will be held at Cross Wind Golf Club a premier golf course in Plymouth on Monday, October 15, 2018. This tournament will be a shotgun start at 9am sharp in a Florida Scramble format which means you will have to arrive at 8am for pre-tournament orientation. …

INTERNATIONAL UECHI-RYU KARATE FEDERATION A CALL TO JOIN IUKF ——– By Henry Thom, 9-Dan, Hanshi   As a brief introduction, IUKF is a federation of Uechi-Ryu practitioners who share a common lineage to Grandmaster Kanei Uechi.  A member of the South China Martial Arts Alliance [SCMAA] and the Okinawa Family of Uechi Organizations, the IUKF …

Rank by David Mott The rank that I really wanted above all ranks was a green belt. Since I started Uechiryu at the Boston YMCA and spent a year as a white belt there, followed by another year at the Mattson Academy as a white belt, It seemed like I was forever a white belt. Remarkably the rest …