David Riddell | Japanese Shiatsu Practitioner

Dave Riddell – Japanese Shiatsu Practitioner

Dave has been involved with the Japanese Arts since 1968, His Father had lived in Japan in the 50s and was inspired by the Japanese people and their Culture, in 1960s the Japanese Karate Association (JKA) sent Japanese Instructors to teach Shotokan Karate in the UK, Dave’s 9th birthday present was he joined the JKA in 1968, and started training four nights a week, after many years of training Dave realised that he was not only learning the Art of Karate, He realised that lots of the warm up and stretching techniques and the post-isometric relaxation techniques were from the Japanese art of Sotai these techniques were done before and after training along with pressing on points of the anatomy in areas that were sore or injured during training known as the Tsubo or Ah shi points, Ah shi meaning “Ouch” or tender points along the twelve (jingjin) referred to as the tendino-muscle meridians.