{"id":1400,"date":"2019-07-16T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T23:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7.io\/dance\/?post_type=dt_team&#038;p=1400"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:18:56","slug":"sensei-jerrad-sagan","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/shokenkarate.com\/index.php\/shoken_team\/sensei-jerrad-sagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerrad Sagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensei Jerrad Sagan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rank: Renshi-Rokudan (6th Degree Blackbelt)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When you reach those times when you think you know everything, it just means that you did not look hard enough to improve what you already know. Then let&#8217;s talk about what you don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensei Jerrad Sagan began training in 1986 while he was still a child. He has been teaching since 1995. He likes to run High energy classes that focus on conditioning and Karate theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A word from Sensei Jerrad Sagan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am a supervisor of an IT department in an international IT company and Karate instructor by night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karate has been a positive part of my life since I was a kid and I first met Sensei Neil Dunnigan.&nbsp; His ability to motivate and teach karate in a way that made sense to me, while also instilling an attitude of respect and control was always a positive aspect in my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my years of training I gained an appreciation for the subtleties of the movements in Uechi-Ryu, the training regiments and their purpose and their real world applications through Sensei Dunnigan and his senior students who taught there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the request of Sensei Dunigan I began teaching and observed how it helped to take my understanding of Karate to a new level. &nbsp;I started seeing the improvements it brought to people&#8217;s lives through greater confidence, strength (both physical and personal) and abilities.&nbsp; I continue to train and teach today to help others grow in their martial art.&#8221;<br><br>From the Admin:<br>Sensei Jerrad Sagan is known for his classes that are a good mix of high intensity exercise and traditional karate. He can explain quite a lot while saying very little. He has something that his Sensei, Sensei Neil Dunnigan, has: the ability to correct you without making you feel small. 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