Sakura Kobudo is instructed by Curtis Stolaas. Although not
being a member of the Jinenkan very long, he has trained in martial
arts since 1999 in Shotikan and American Freestyle. He was a
member of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Freestyle tournament
team. In 2004
Curtis found
himself wanting more from his training efforts and decided to look else
where for inspiration.
His wife pointed him to a traditional martial arts associationwhich
taught the arts of the samurai.
This was what he was looking for and scheduled a meeting
with his soon to be instructor, Dojo-Cho Matt Stennett. Since
that meeting Curtis has been training under his Dojo-Cho who in turn
was taught by the original Jinenkan Master, Unsui-Sensei
