Kancho Liven was born in Tel Aviv on the 3 of march, 1949 and has been living in Denmark since 1981. He started training Karate when he was 9 and graduated to the first Dan when he was 15. From then on he decided to dedicate his life to the way (jap. do) of martial arts.

The style he started to train was a blending of Kung-Fu, full contact Karate and the original Okinawa-te. Nowadays he is one of the highest ranking Karate masters in Europe.

Over the last 43 years he has trained many different systems including Shotokan, Kyokushinkai-Karate, Thai-boxing, Kendo, Judo, Aikido, Kobudo, Kick-boxing and Full-contact Karate. His philosophy is that a person should never stop to learn and to keep an open mind to everything.

In 1967 Kancho Liven fought the 6-days war and in 1973 in the Yom-Kippur-war and worked after as an instructor for the special forces in Israel.

After his time in the military he traveled a lot and went for a longer time to Japan to train under the masters of the originally Okinawa-te and to take part on many competitions. At all the places he came to he was invited to teach Karate and self defence.

During 1977-1978 he worked as a bodyguard for a president on the island of Martinique. Also in this years he became two times a european champion in Full-contact Karate.

In 1980 the doctors found a malignant tumor in Kancho Livens sinus. Allready short after the dangerous surgery and irradiation he started slowly training again, and as he explains it himself the physically and mentally power which he dad developed through the many years of intensive training helped him to defeat the cancer. In 1981 Kancho Liven was invited to Norway to prepare the norwegian nationalteam for the European Championchip and there he found out that the cool climate was good for his health. He decided to settle down in a country with a climate like in Norway. At the end of 1981 he moved to Denmark and started his first school for Karate there.

In 1985 Bushido Sports Center where Sho Shin Karate Do has it’s mainquarter until today was opened. In the 43 years where Kancho Liven was training and teaching different martial arts included Karate styles he never found a perfect one. He was all the time very grateful for what he could learn from different masters but he always felt that something was missing. At the end of the 80th he started therefore to develop his own style Sho Shin Do what means the genuine way.

In 1992 Kancho Liven saved the life of a man who was attacked and tryed to stab down. With a yoko geri (sidekick) he send the attacker through a shopwindow. This episode made him famous in the danish media because of the man was a policeman in civil. When Kancho Liven is asked about this episode he reacts amazed. Allready many times before he saved other peoples lives. Most times people who were attacked by criminals. But the first time that the media were interested in this, was when it was a policeman ans even than anly for a short period of time. When somebody kills people he is remembered forever but when you are saving others lives people remember it only very short. Something is wrong with peoples attitude. In Kancho Livens opinion many people could help others but this requires an extensive training and preparation.

Becide Karate Kancho Liven was teaching self-defence all the time. And after saving the policeman also for Falck-Securitas and other security staff in Denmark. Krav Maga the self-defence and close combat system of the israeli army proved to be the most effective system of teaching self-defence to people also with no backround in other martial arts. After Krav Maga stoped to be a secret of the israeli army Kancho Liven founded his own organisation - Krav Maga Liven International.

To test his physically and mental strength Kancho Liven allways made tamashiwari. He is the holder of the worldrecord of breaking 199 briggs in shortest possible time - 60 seconds in 1990. In 1991 he broke 113 briggs with Gyaku Tzuki in 30 seconds and in 1992 he broke 130kg of massive concrete with one Yoku Geri. 

Many times in a year he is traveling around the world to follow the invitations of different clubs from Norway, Israel, Germany, Russia, Italy, Thailand or Iceland to teach Karate and Krav Maga. In 1993 he was a guest at the Norsk Budo-gala in Oslo where a broad spectrum of the world best martial artists were represented

On 10.12.1999 Kancho Liven received his 9. dan from Jon Bluming (10. dan from Holland) and Kenji Kurosaki (10.dan) from the Kyokushin Budo Kai Organisation.

The images are taken from the book of Jon Bluming.

When asked about his planes for the future Kancho Liven answered that he wants to spend all his energy now to transport his knowledge and experience over the borders of Europe. So he invites any organisation or club from all over the world especially from America that is interested in building a relationchip to one of his organisations Sho Shin Karate Do and Krav Maga Liven International to contact his headquarter in Denmark.

Some Impressions

Article about Kancho Raffi Liven written by Tom Madsen (3.Dan)

SAMURAI TRÆNEREN – Kancho Raffi Liven

Mesteren, der har grundlagt karate systemet Sho Shin Do og Krav Maga Liven International er eftertragtet som aldrig før.

Kancho Raffi Liven præsenterede, i kraft af sin position som præsident for Pankration Athlima i Scandinavien, i sidste uge de 1. Europa mesterskaber og den 4. World Cup i den spændende, livlige og realitetsnære kampsport Pancration Athlima i Århus, Danmark.

Pancration Athlima gælder ifølge kampsport lexica som den første kendte kampsport i verdenshistorien og har sine rødder i oldtidens Grækenland. Der kæmpes i en ring ligesom i karate og der bæres ikke beskyttelsesudstyr udover tand- og skridtbeskytter. Der er stort set ingen regler som begrænser kæmperne ud over tiden og kampfladen. På trods af dette er fair play og etikette nogle af de vigtigste aspekter for kæmperne.

Selv om kæmperne er rutinerede og veltrænede vil der altid være en vinder og en taber. Dette betyder hvis man kæmper må man være forberedt på alt og at man må altid huske på at det er vigtigere at være sund og rask efter kampen end der at vinde -  ”at være med og kæmpe er det vigtigste”.

På denne måde forbinder Pancration Athlima gamle dyder som Fair Play med en yderst effektiv og underholdende kampsport.

Under stævnet i Århus hvor der deltog kæmpere fra bl.a. Nepal, Australien, Iran, Israel, Grækenland, Italien, USA, Tyskland, Norge og naturligvis Danmark var der en del meget interessante kampe. Bl.a. kæmpede en 74 kg Australier mod en 124 kg. Muskelmand fra Irak. Efter blot 30 sekunder kamp kunne den lille Australier med 50 kg mindre vægt række sine hænder i vejret efter dagens første sejr – utroligt.

Alle danskere kæmpede utrolig flotte kampe og stort set alle kunne efter stævnet se tilbage på mindst en sejr i denne traditionelle og yderst effektive kampsport.

Kancho Liven kunne efter stævnet se tilbage på endnu et flot stævne i stil med de traditionelle internationalt anerkendte stævner Liven Cup der hvert år afholdes i Århus.

Stævnet var igen et bevis på at Kancho Raffi Liven er en af verdens absolut mest eftertragtede kampsport trænere. Således besluttede holdet fra Nepal at blive et par dage i Danmark for lære mere om Kancho Raffi Liven´s enestående kampsport metoder ligesom det indiske hold gjorde efter det senest afholdte Liven Cup Stævne.

Kancho Raffi Liven rejser hvert år over alt i hele verden for dele ud af sine unikke erfaringer med alle der ønsker at bringe deres kampsport niveau endnu højere op.

Således lykkedes det i år Tom Madsen, der efter at have trænet løbende de seneste 15 år hos Kancho Raffi Liven, at kæmpe sig til en World Champion Titel i Las Vegas USA i Kickboksning.

Kancho Raffi Liven har været sortbælte i mere end 40 år og i dag bærer sortbælte af 9. grad ( 9. dan) og har undervist kæmpere i hele verden ligesom der kommer kæmpere fra hele verden til Århus hver gang han afholder seminarer.

Raffi Liven der blandt andet har studeret karate i Japan og vundet stort set alle titler der kan vindes skal således til Californien i det nye år for at vise sine enestående evner for den nye guvernør af Californien, -  bedre kendt som super aktion helten - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Der er ingen tvivl om at Århus i kraft Kancho Raffi Liven og hans kampsport systemer Sho Shin Do og Krav Maga Liven International, er et absolut centrum for traditionelle og innovative realistiske kampsystemer. – Og at Kancho Raffi Liven er en af verdens absolut bedste og mest eftertragtede kampsport trænere.

I Klubben i Århus træner både nogle af verdens absolut bedste kampsport folk, såvel som begyndere i alle aldre. Der er således plads til alle, fra de som vil lære lidt basis teknikker og dyrke motion til de som vil prøve kræfter med verdenseliten i diverse kampsport arter og nå helt til tops.  

Vil du vide mere om denne grandiose super træner kan du besøge ham på internettet under www.shoshindo.dk og www.shoshindo.com eller direkte i hans smukke Dojo (træningssal) på Klosterport i Århus.          

Tom Madsen
3. Dan
 

He fights against a cancer and he still beats it! 

The doctors gave him 6 month back to live. This was in December 1980. He is still strong like   a bull, faster than a jet and still running on. If you want to learn to survive against anything, learn from him.

 In 1980 the doctors found a malignant tumor in Kancho Livens sinus. Already short after the dangerous surgery and irradiation just after the operation he started training very serious again, and as he explains it himself the physically and mentally power which he had developed through the many years of intensive training helped him to defeat the cancer. Until today Kancho Liven is fighting the cancer day by day and he proofs every human being can do it if he has the will to live, power and believe included doing positive things fx. open hand – Karate or Krav Maga what means hard training and to give always for the people around you. If you can give for the people around you without any border and not being greedy you can fight any sickness and live happy. That also means to give also even what you don’t have for yourself. Never forget the physically training. People  are normally materialistic and greedy if they can change themselves they can do anything and the god gives back.

Kancho Liven is helping people from time to time to fight against cancer, giving them his spirit and experience. If you have any questions or need help please contact Kancho Liven by phone: +4526272527 or email: info@shoshindo.com.