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Founder of Shinbudo International Association is Dr.
Ivica Zdravkovic.
Dr. Zdravkovic is KAICHO of ISA ("founding president, head of
association"). He is running Shinbukan school of martial arts in Serbia, and Serbian Budo
Council, a non-goverment amateur martial arts organization. He also founded Kenjutsu International Association of Instructors
(KIAI) in 1999, now with HQ in USA. Back in 2005 Dr. Zdravkovic has founded European
Budo Council (EBC), which organized European Budo Games and other major
events.
Dr. Ivica lives in Serbia. He is
married, has two children and works as a physician, specialist of family
medicine. Kaicho's martial arts career includes intensive work on organizing national and
international competitions in sport jujutsu, chanbara/sport kenjutsu, etc. He
was successful organizer, coach, referee and competitor. Also, he wrote numerous articles for local, international
and electronic martial arts magazines. All of this has resulted in many awards in Serbia, Europe and USA for
his instructional work, refereeing, organizational and other
activities in popularization of modern budo.
Kaicho has over 30 years experience
in Japanese martial arts and sports. He begun as a judo
practitioner in 1979, then started cross-training in karate
(shotokan), weapons, aikido, full contact karate etc. He
earned first black belt after 12 years of practice, back in
1991. Officially, Dr. Zdravkovic is Nihon Jujutsu and Nihon
Kenjutsu shihan, with 7th Dan Jujutsu and 5th Dan Kenjutsu, registered in Japan, USA and Europe. Also, he holds Dan grades in
Aiki Jujutsu (5th Dan), Sport Chanbara (5th Dan Tanto, 4th Dan Choken and Kodachi), Judo
(3rd Dan), Karate-Do (2nd Dan) and Aikido (1st Dan). In
addition, he practices Sekiguchi Ryu Batto-jutsu under
Toshiyasu Yamada shihan. Despite all the Dan grades, Kaicho
strongly believes that martial arts should in future reject
the devalued Dan-system and accept the simplified hierarchy
structure (Senpai, Sensei, Shihan).
Beside traditional martial arts instruction, Dr. Ivica also
proved himself as a contestant in various combat sport
disciplines. As a child he competed in judo. On World
Martial Arts Games held 2007 in Regensburg, Germany, he won
Champion title in sword kata demonstration and Vice-champion
title in jujutsu fights (heavyweight). On 3rd European Budo
Games in Germany 2008 he placed 3rd in jujutsu fights. He
also won champion titles in Jujutsu Kata (self-defense
demonstration) on international competitions in Europe.
In 2005 he was 3rd in Choken Iai discipline on European
Sports Chanbara Champion held in Russia. Next year 2006 he
became European Sports Chanbara Vice-champion in Tanto
discipline in Italy. In 2007 he placed 4th in Europe in Team
Kihon Dosa kata competition in Ukraine. Finally, he took 5th
place in Kihon Dosa on World Sports Chanbara Championship in
Japan 2008, thus ending his competitive career.
Dr. Ivica served as board member of several national and
international martial arts organizations. He introduced JJIF
and WMAG Sport Jujutsu and Sport Chanbara (Sport Kenjutsu) competitions
in most former Yugoslavian countries. During his martial
arts career he was a
guest-instructor, referee and active participant on seminars and competitions in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, USA
and Japan.
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