Ishinryu training has taken place in the Woodlane Dojo since the mid 1970's. Wood Lane is based in Dagenham on the East London / Essex border and comes under the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The first Ishinryu club was established at Woodlane by sensei Fred Kidd. Sensei John Walton ran the club from the mid 1980s until his retirement from karate in 1991 - at that time John handed the club over to sensei Chris Vant and sensei Tony Postbeschild.
The next major change occurred in 2003. At that time the other major Dagenham Ishinryu club, based at Goresbrook and led by sensei Lee Smith, merged with Woodlane. Goresbrook had formed in the early 1990s from ex-Woodlane students, so this change was really just a unification of the original Woodlane club.
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