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About Hennie Bosman

Hennie was bullied as a child and his mother read about Karate in the Reader’s Digest.
When Sensei Eddie Cave opened the first Karate school in Bellville in 1965, Hennie joined as a shy nine year old. He was fascinated by what he saw and never lost that fascination with this martial art. Initially he found the training tough but kept at it and received his black belt five years later.
After school he joined the SA Police and served as a detective in the Vehicle Branch in Cape Town but in 1978 he resigned to open the first of many karate schools.

General Interests:

Hennie has always had a passion for cars and has enjoyed racing modified and sports cars since 1984..
A noteworthy achievement was that of becoming a single handicap golfer and taking part in long driving competitions.
A highlight was assisting the Springboks, SA Sevens as well as the Sharks rugby teams with special Martial art techniques to break tackles, to hand off opponents and to attack the defending players weak points.

Hennie Bosman as Karate Instructor

Hanshi Hennie Bosman started training karate in 1965 as a 9 year old in Kyokushin Karate.n 1978 he started to teach full time opening 4 different dojos in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town. That grew to 30 different dojos at which he and 8 full times instructor teach about 950 students.

He represented South Africa in traditional karate, kick boxing and Kyokushin. In 2002 he won the World Senior title in Osaka in Japan.

He also represented South Africa as coach and manager of national teams. He won several South African titles.

He has visited Japan on more than 50 ocasions to improve his knowledge as well as a competitor and official. He has also been centre referee at several World Kyokushin Tournaments.

He has also attended teaching seminars in most continents as instructor or student.

Over the years his own dojos has produced more than 18000 students that benefitted from karate training to cope with life.

He is very thankful to all the instructors that taught him over the years.

With Kyokushin Budokan he would like to spread the message of Sosai Mas Oyama.

Hennie as Actor and Stuntman

Hennie has acted in more than 30 films as an actor or stuntman. He is normally cast as the Baddy who mostly dies a horrible death.
He had the opportunity to play opposite Morgan Freeman in Invictus; Wesley Snipes in Gallowwalkers and The Marksman; Sam Eliot in Avenge; Jean Claude van Damme in Wake of Death, Sacha Baron Cohen in The Brothers Grimsby, Olga Kurylenko (Bond Girl) in Momentum, Luke Goss, Sean Bean in Death Race 2, Orlando Bloom and Forrest Whitaker in Zulu with special parts as Telemon in Doomsday and Golaith in Dominion.
He has also had the good fortune of doing many television commercials.

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