Dr. (hc) Saman Kapila Wijenayake (Saman K. Wijenayake) was born in February on the 27 in 1977, in Hettipola City Matale in Sri Lanka. He established Seishin Karate School & Seishin Mixed Martial Arts Club UAE. Saman K. Wijenayake started his carrier in Sports Martial Arts in March 1988. He Practiced Kyokushin Karate. Further he improved his style with Ashihara Karate (NIKO) for 4 years from 1994 under Sensei D. C. M. Karunathilake.
Then He Was Appointed As A Branch Chief And Chief Instructor From 2003 To 2008 For Ashihara Karate (NIKO) In Italy. Saman Won The Kick Boxing Championship In Europe In 2004 Under The Weight Category Of 70kg Which Was Held In Belgium. He Learned Mumonkai Budo Karate In France From The Founder Kaicho Togashi Yoshimoto With 2008 Uchi-Deshi (3 Month In Japan) And Achieved The 3rd DAN Black Belt Level. Saman Went To Japan In 2010 And Reached The 4th DAN Black Belt In “50 Men Kumite” And Then Was Appointed As An Asian Leader Of Mumonkai Budo Karate For South Asian Region In 2009. In Addition To That He Was Appointed As The Branch Chief Instructor For Sri Lanka, Dubai And Italy For The Style Of Toshin Kaikan Karate And Toshin Kickboxing. He Learned Yoga In India And Achieved The Level Of Yoga Instructor In 2008.
He Was Appointed As International Japan Karate Organization Josui Kai East And South Asian Chief And The Chief Instructor In 2012.
Saman Won The 42 All Japan Budo Karate Championship & World Championship Mumonkai MMA In 2012 Under The Weight Category Of 70kg Which Was Held In Japan. He Was Appointed As International Kyonewaza Federation (Submission Techniques) Group Leader And Sri Lanka Chief Instructor In 2014.
In 2015 He Was Appointed As Italian Sport National Centre As A SHIHAN ( Master) 2016
He Was Awarded University Of Martial Arts World Martial Arts Masters Association Japan Doctor Of Philosophy (PhD) 2024 University of Washington
Sri Lanka Karate Do Federation 7 Th Dan Black Belt, 7 Th Dan Black Belt World Karate Federation (WKF), 3rd Dan Black Belt Ashihara Kaikan New International Karate Federation From Japan, MuayThai Coach Under The International Federation Of MuayThai Assocation. & 3rd Dan Master Black Belt International Arashi MMA Federation.
2022 Member & Coach Of The UAE Karate Federation And UAE Muay Thai & Kickboxing Federation. UAE Official County Respective New International Karate Federation Ashihara Kaikan, International Kick Jitsu Shoot Boxe Federation & International Arashi MMA Federation.
7 Dan Black Belt from Japan Budo Mixed Martial Arts Federation
Zendokai Budo Karate Mixed Martial Arts Sri Lanka Country Representative
Born in 1961. Born in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture.
He started karate in junior high school and began teaching karate to young people around 1983.
From 1985, he became a coach in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, and while training many powerful players, in 1988, he built a karate hall in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, and worked on youth health development activities. At the same time, he kept socially inadjusted youths, such as truant students, delinquent boys, and hikikomori youths, at home, and while living together, he worked hard to rehabilite independently through martial arts. His achievements were recognized, and in March 2000, he was awarded the first letter of appreciation from the sports world from the local department of Ina County under the prefectural youth countermeasures.
In May 2001, he established the “Japan Martial Arts Federation, a specified non-profit organization” with martial arts education as the main purpose. In the same year, the technical book “Barritud KARATE” was published by BAB Japan.
In 2002, he was recognized for his achievements in establishing a practice system to safely acquire karate, and received the Higashikunomiya Memorial Award.
In November 2003, based on the experience of rehabilitating socially mladapted youth through martial arts, the educational book "Unconscious Education" was published by MC Press, which was well received. In the same year, he produced a video and DVD version of the technical book "Barritud KARATE".
In addition, he has been promoting tie-up activities in both education and welfare for a long time, and in February 2004, he was awarded a letter of appreciation from the Federation by the Social Welfare Corporation Welfare Association for the Visually Impaired for activities such as charity conferences mainly for the visually impaired. In addition, we are conducting various educational activities not only in Japan, such as charity activities to support AIDS orphans and street children in Asia, mainly focusing on youth health development activities.
In June 2006, BAB Japan published the second educational book. In July of the same year, he started a self-reliance support project for socially inadjusted people, such as "Hikikomori" and "NEET" for Japanese people in the Philippines. Take care of children with various problems and lead them to the path to rehabilitation. I feel the need from the current situation where there are many children who do not have high school qualifications,
In April 2008, he partnered with the wide-area communication high school "Sakura International High School" in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, and launched the high school graduate support school "Dyana International Gakuen". From the outside, there are people who enter for the purpose of obtaining high school qualifications. It is a groundbreaking support school where you can get high school credits while providing life guidance in school facilities, unique learning, and various activities, and the Karate Zendo Association's unique martial arts education is also included as part of the curriculum. The children who have been entrusted to them have clearly improved to varying degrees.
In April 2010, BAB Japan Co., Ltd. released the third book, the collection of episodes of youth independence through martial arts education, "Practice of martial arts education". Get a response from all over the country.
In addition, he continues to give lectures vigorously for healthy youth development activities in each district, and writes variously for national magazines, local newspapers, etc.
Japan Pancration Association Tenth Rank
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