More about Romualdas Navickas:

• President of International Baltic Shindokai league

• Chairman of International Bushido Federation coach council and referee council

• President of Lithuania Shindokan Federation

• Vice-president of World K-1 Amateurs

ROMUALDAS NAVICKAS (W.W.K.C. 8 DAN, Shindokai 6 DAN, Bushido 6 DAN, combatant self-defense 5 DAN, Shindokan 4 DAN, Goju Ryu 2 DAN) was born on 7 February in 1955. He became interested in Greek-Roman wrestling in Kaunas back in 1966 (coach A. Liaugminas). From 1970 he was one of the creators of the karate system. On request he even carried out training sessions on the basis of his own system of karate workouts. In 1973 R. Navickas started collaborating with masters from Kiev and a while later – karate masters from Vietnam and Kong. During the period from 1974 to 1981 he actively trained karate sportsmen and participated in various competitions in the Soviet Union himself. In the same year he established a sports club Ąžuolas (Oak).

In 1981 by the initiative of R. Navickas Lithuania Combatant Self-defense system was developed. Various specialists and coaches were involved in this activity, for example, A. Gečiauskas, S. Veprauskas, Č. Jezerskis, J. Škerys, E,. Rūkas and etc. In 1988 Lithuania Combatant Self-defense Federation was established. The system of combatant self-defense was used in Lithuanian army from 1992. On January 1991 the club’s sportsmen were actively participating in the events that took place: they were defending the independence of Lithuania.

In 1992 R. Navickas was improving his skills according to the style of Goju Ryu in England. His coach was 7 DAN master R. Honiball. During the same year he passed combatant self-defense 5 DAN and Goju Ryu 2 DAN in 1993.

Lithuania Shidokan Federation was established in 1996 and European Shidokan Federation in 1998. R. Navickas was elected as a chairman (vice-president) in the European Coach Council. In 1999 he was awarded with the name of Lithuania Branch President (Certificate No. 210) and in the same year he received W.W.K.C. 6 DAN. Yoshiji Soeno awarded R. Navickas with Japanese Shidokan DAN in 2002.

During 40 years of work in the field of sports R. Navickas trained and prepared a lot of excellent sportsmen and coaches, who are now members of different federations of karate sports. Sportsmen who were trained by R. Navickis achieved a lot of victories in both World and European championships as well as international tournaments.