My Sensei, Saiko Shihan Pavao Piacun, was born on June 19th, 1948 in Trpanj, Croatia.

1964 he began by Tetsuji Murakami with Karate Do and taught thereupon on his order all over Europe.

He counts as pioneer of Karate Do in Switzerland and contributed significantly to its countrywide spread. Since 1973 he teaches in his Dojo “Karate Do Bern” and had both as Karateka and teacher innumerable successes.

Shihan Piacun distances himself from the actual trend, which lets the martial art Karate Do wither to a purely sports oriented training. For this reason he both retired from the Swiss Karate scene and broke contact to many of his former students. His formative influence though is still clearly noticeable.

1991 Shihan Piacun founded the Swiss Traditional Karate Do Federation (STKF) which master and president he was until 2008.

2007 he founded his style Shisui Ryu Karate Do.

2008 Shihan Piacun got the 8th Dan.

At the end of 2008, the 1991 founded federation STKF was reorganised, restructured and completed by the martial art Kobudo. STKF now stands for Swiss Traditional Karate Do and Kobudo Federation. Further informations about the STKF and Shisui Ryu Karate Do of Shihan Pavao Piacun are to be found on the website of the STKF www.swiss-karate.com.