My kyokushin keepsake
during training in Japan,last summer 2001.

taking instructions

outdoor training,hasunuma beach park,Chiba-ken Japan

with ms.sarah lappin of Australia

with the north american team (canada)

with ranking kyokushin official in Japan during summer outdoor training

1997 world cup winner and champion with senpai mike

with Shihan Kenji Midori

with a russian fighter

Japanese kyokushin fighter

with USA Shihan

senpai mike sitting on the front row right side corner in Budokan in Chiba,Japan during his 1st dan promotion

Senpai Mike Zarate with his Filipino students in Japan

senpai Mike(23)

Senpai Mike conducting basic kyokushin karate course with Filipino overseas workers community

16 years old senpai mike zarate with his supporter international actress/martial artist Sensei Cynthia Luster,on kyokuhin championship held in camp crame Quezon city

on the way to the budokan

after finishing the course with overseas filipino workers community

Shihan hiroaki sekikawa of Niigata branch in Japan during the 1992 national championship in Philippines

facing the then middle east champion

fighting forms Filipino community in other country

senpai mike awarded 1st placer in this kyokushin tournaments attended by Japanese kyokushins delegation from Japan

(center)Senpai mike placing second in this 1995 kyokushin karate national selection

senpai mike students during promotion,ranging from 3 years old the youngest to 12 the oldest in the junior class

senpai mike winning the invitational tournaments in which the blackbelts refused to engaged him,they awarded him champion in non blackbelt category,unfair but just another experience

Senpai MIke Zarate flexing while on training in Japan

the basics

(far right) senpai mike with his team mates in martial arts brotherhood who garnered all the awards.

Senpai Mike Zarate(right) and Shihan Castaneda in japan on better days

senpai mike and room mate ricky farinas of judo global brothers based in Japan

senpai mike teaching his students