About Us
Matsudoden Kobukan Karate Federation
HANSHI GREG POITRAS
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF INSTRUCTOR
Hanshi Greg has studied and trained in martial arts for over 40 years with more than 25 years of teaching martial arts in the Western Pacific, Far and Middle East. He is the President and Chairman of the Matsusoden Kobukan Federation. He specializes in teaching Matsumura Shorin Ryu Karate, Matsubayashi Shorin, Hakutsuru White Crane, and Okinawan Kobudo.
His federataion is one of the only remaining organizations teaching the authentic Matumura Family lineage of martial arts.
He has instructed Military Police in Japan and U.S. Customs Air Interdiction Agents, as a Certified U.S. Customs Defensive Tactics Instructor, in advanced self-defense techniques while performing Southern Border, Central and South American drug interdiction ops.
Hanshi Poitras holds the following ranks: 9th Degree Black Belt (Hanshi) in Matsubayashi Ryu, and a 8th Degree Black Belt in Matsumura Shorin Ryu and Hakutsuru White Crane, in He is a 25-year retired Navy Veteran who has served as a Combat Air Crewman serving more than 17 years in the Western Pacific and Middle Eastern Theaters of Operation.
