Sensei Svetlan Skenderovski

Svetlan Skenderovski was born in Kumanovo in 1958. He had finished primary, seondary and high school in Belgrade. He has been practising martial arts since he was 12. The first fighting flame he felt in ‘Mašinac’ Judo Club with the famous judo trainer Vuk Rašovic. The next skill he had encountered with was ‘Kyokushinkai’ which he had practiced under guidance of Dragan Filipovic, the legendary master of this skill who had unselfishly shared his knowledge and secrets of this fighting style.

Due to his fanatic and persistant trainings, Svetlan had won the status of the best one in his group an then the title of the skill master. The master title Svetlan had verified in practice when he had won the tenfights organized against masters of other martial arts. Although he was well-known in the martial arts circles of the time as a good and fearless fighter and an admirer of full contact fighting, he could not fulfill his carrier of a competitor because at that period this skill did not have the appropriate sports and social status.

Sensei Svetlan Skenderovski ahead Shaolin monastery

That was the reason to start working as a trainer and committing himself to the popularisation of this martial art. Several generations of champions have matured and effectuated very significant sports results under his leadership. Among them, in the first generation there were Aleksandar Baclija, Srdan Babic and Branko Vasiljevic, then in the second generation Svetlan Spasic, Saša Andelic and Željko Mandic. In the third generation of champions there were Sandra Spasic, Marina Vukovic, Marko Maljevic and Marko Vukovic, and the representatives of the last generation are Danijel Ðermanovic and Dejan Ðordevic.

During his martial arts career Svetlan Skenderovski had attended numerous seminars in Serbia and abroad wishing to improve himself and to acquire knowledge of different fighting styles (kyokushinkai, kyokushinjutsu, jujutsu, gojoryu, shotokai, shotokan) and he had also used to visit kickboxing clubs in Belgrade (’Olimp’ and ‘Arena’) not hesitating to participate the training as a common trainee.

Sensei Svetlan Skenderovski in usual meditation pose

In his everlasting aspiration to reach perfection in the martial arts domain, the road led him to the Shaolin monastery where in the monastery complex in school Shaolin Monastery Wushu Institute at Tagou he was studying the technique of working with pole and the technique of overmastering chi kung (energy) under the conduct of eminent master and teacher Liu Guang Po. As a way of testing the obtained knowledge, in front of the instructors and trainees of the school, he carried out a form of working with pole ‘I shi guan’ and as a test of checking chi kung he carried out breaking a spear at the throaty chakra.

Svetlan Skenderovski is also known as the first master of international rank that together with his trainees in an attractive way have started the popularization of martial arts in Serbia demonstrating tameshiwari (breaking techniques) that previously could had only been seen with the foreign masters.

Sensei Svetlan Skenderovski with practise group

His constant need for travellings through magic world of martial arts as well as pursuit for new cognitions has brought him in contact with the newest skill named ‘Ashihara Kaikan’ fighting style.

The mentioned fighting style has captivated him at once and completely by its dynamic, technique as well as by the perfect combination of three martial arts – aikido, karate and judo. With full enthusiasm that has arose from discovering the new fighting skill Svetlan Skenderovski as a men of action and enormous energy brought and conceived ‘Ashihara Kaikan’ in Serbia.