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Robert Scaglione [at the time Kyoshi] relocates from New York City to open the first SRKUSA dojo in Merritt Island, Florida, under the direction of Master Ueshiro.  In December of 1996, David Tamir [Ni-Dan at the time] left his previous Shorin-Ryu Matsubayashi American Karate Federation (AKF) to join SRKUSA at this dojo as a white belt, beginning to learn Ueshiro's way of Shorin-Ryu Karate from Kyoshi Robert Scaglione.

Sempai Robert Hodes [Ik-Kyu at the time] left New York City, where he trained at the Lexington Ave Dojo under Kyoshi Robert Scaglione [at the time], and relocated to Israel in September 1986.  After spending 5 months at an absorption center for immigrants [merkaz klita] in the City of Kfar-Saba,  Hodes relocated to Eilat, the southern most City in Israel, situated on the Red Sea.  Shortly after arriving in Eilat, he was sponsored by Kyoshi Robert Scaglione to open the first Ueshiro SRKUSA Dojo at the MOR Center, around February 1987.  He later relocated the dojo to a community bomb shelter, which he retrofitted to a traditional dojo (as shown in the photo below), including a unique vinyl flooring he installed with a cartesian-graph-paper-like pattern, helping the deshi develop their precision movements.  Master Ueshiro was supportive of this first new dojo in Israel, relating to it through his own experience of immigrating to the USA with a foreign culture and language to teach karate.  Consequently, Robert Hodes was promoted to Shodan and later to Sandan/Sensei.

Sensei Hodes' senior most student, Sempai Rafi Kaneti, took over as Shihan of the dojo in March-April 1992, when Sensei Hodes returned to the USA to care for his ailing mother, as well as open the Ueshiro East Meets West Karate Dojo in New York City on 5th Avenue.  A couple years later, Sempai Kaneti left on a trip to India, and transferred the Ueshiro Eilat Dojo's directorship to Sempai Shlomo Dadon, who was the next senior most Sempai at the dojo (an Ik-Kyu at the time).  Dadon continued training and was tested and promoted to Shodan in 1996 by Kyoshi Robert Scaglione, during his first visit to Israel.   Sempai Dadon kept rising through the Dan-level ranks, while serving as Shihan of the Ueshiro Eilat Dojo, eventually becoming a Sensei.  Many  deshi were trained at the Eilat dojo, with several reaching Black Belt rank.

David Seeger [at the time Sensei] opens the Ueshiro Pine Forest Karate School in  his home basement in Palisades, New York.  Seeger's dojo continues to this day under his leadership.  Tamir Sensei has visited his dojo on several occasions.  It is one of our most traditional dojo settings.

After spending 9 years learning Ueshiro SRKUSA Karate at the New York City Lexington Ave Dojo, under Kyoshi Robert Scaglione [at the time], Sensei Nir Zamir returns to his homeland in Israel and starts a Tel-Aviv based Dojo in 1992.  Later Sensei Zamir moved his dojo to its current location in Herzliya.  Denshi-Shihan Zamir's Ueshiro Dojo has trained many deshi and produced several Black Belts since its inception.