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Place of Birth: Belgium
About Serge Mol
- Serge Mol (/'s?rd? 'm?l /; katakana: ????·??; Russian: ????? ????) (born 1970) is a dedicated martial artist, martial arts historian and martial arts book author from Belgium.
- He is among a select number of Westerners who hold authentic Japanese credentials in koryu martial arts.
- He is the first non-Japanese person who has received the top-rank of menkyo kaiden in Enshin-ryu Iaijutsu, suemonogiri, kenpo, and yawara-jutsu.
- He also holds the rank of menkyo in Hoki-ryu jujutsu.
- Mol has trained jujutsu for more than 30 years.
- He has also studied various gendai budo such as the modern kendo, iaido and jodo.
- In order to immerse himself in Japanese culture Mol lived for several years in Japan, where he was a disciple of the Japanese grandmasters Fumon Tanaka and Atsumi Nakashima. Mol is also a collector of authentic historic Japanese martial arts manuscripts from various jujutsu schools and other martial arts.
- He has also built out a large collection of period Japanese arms and armor. Today, Mol lives with his family in Belgium, where he is a writer and teacher of classical martial arts.
- He is one of only three Belgians with known authentic Japanese koryu credentials, the other two being Dr.
- Guy Buyens (Hontai Yoshin-ryu) and Dr.
- Carl De Crée (Tenjin Shin’yo-ryu of the Inoue Keitaro-lineage and Owari-ha Yagyu Shinkage-ryu).
- Mol still regularly travels to Japan to find new sources to underpin his continuing research into the ancient Japanese martial culture.
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