Heizaburo okawa biography of martin

In this undated picture, fencer Heizaburo Okawa poses for photographs in Japan.!

Heizaburo Okawa fenced at three Olympics for Japan (1960-68), finishing in the top 10 individually in the foil in 1964 and 1968.

Besides Michael & Charlie, they had Heizaburo Okawa, the ever-popular Dan DeChaine, and 1975 Pan Am Champion Martin Lang (who won Men's Foil.

Pictured above is my fencing master, Heizaburo Okawa, circa the mid-'60s, doing his signature counter-riposte in an impossible yoga-like.

In this undated picture, fencer Heizaburo Okawa poses for photographs in Japan.

JPN, Olympics/Referee, FEN, 1960—1988.

Martin Leonard.

Okawa frequently fenced in the United States, finishing fifth at an international competition in New York in 1965. At the invitation of Torao Mori, he then went to Los Angeles and joined the Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC). Mori was a renowned kendo master, holder of the rare Hanshi degree and 8th Dan, the highest rank held outside Japan.

Okawa fenced in the 1966 US national foil championship where he finished third and in the épée championship where he finished fourth.

In the 1967 US championships, Okawa won the individual foil and was on the LAAC team that won the team foil championship.

OKAWA Heizaburo, 1939, M, JPN. 4, SHIMIZU Fujio, 1940, M, JPN. 4, TABUCHI Kazuhiko OSIIER Ivan Joseph Martin, 1888, M, DEN. 4, N, RASMUSSEN Poul, 1896, M, DEN.

At the 1968 US foil championships, Okawa repeated as the individual champion. Okawa also returned to Japan for the 1967 and 1968 Japanese fencing championships and won those titles as well. After the 1968 Olympics, Okawa turned professional, married Torao Mori’s daught