Milt Calander

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Milt Calander (b. 1949) was a student of Shuri-ryu Grandmaster Robert Trias for 17 years, from 1972 to 1989. He is a 6th Dan in Okinawan Shuri-Ryu karate and has owned his own karate schools. Before that, he served and lived in Grandmaster Trias' headquarters dojo in Phoenix, Arizona as the headquarter's chief staff instructor for both Shuri-ryu and the United States Karate Association from 1974 to 1977. Mr. Calander assisted the Grandmaster in writing down the kata movements for Trias' book "The Pinnacle of Karate."

Calander has travelled throughout the world and the United States promoting Shuri-ryu and was inducted into the Trias International Society Hall of Fame in 1987.