John Anderson formed the Ippon Karate & Self-Defence Club in Aylburton, Lydney near the Forest of Dean in December 1988. However, the Club ceased after being in existence for 2 years, following the departure of Sensei Anderson back to Scotland because of work commitments. Some weeks later, Andrew Jones decided that he wished to continue his studies of the martial arts and made several phone calls to students for their support in the continuation of the Club. This was quite bluntly a case of either he became instructor and took over the teaching and running of the Club, or the Club (in England) would have folded. So in 1990 Sempai Jones started teaching at the dizzy heights of 4^th kyu.

He was ably and fully supported by Deena Andrews, who was training regularly and had come to the Club following training in various styles in other parts of the country. Deena was also a yoga instructor, and brought her own style of teaching. She was a great asset to the Club.

Sempai Jones ran the Aylburton venue for some time, before opening a further 2 Clubs in the Forest of Dean area, in Cinderford and Coleford. Since the catchment area is rather small (and the number of martial arts clubs relatively high), historically the Clubs have always been quite small. This does mean of course, that the students receive better training and more attention is given to their individual needs. That said, the Club did achieve 13^th place in the UKASKO awards in 1998. In November of that year, Sensei Jones achieved his Level II Coaching Certificate.

In December 1999, Sensei Andrew Jones and Sensei John Anderson went their separate ways, and in January 2000, the Fudoshin Karate Club was established.

Unfortunately, in May 2000 the Coleford branch of the Club ceased due to lack of student numbers. This left 2 Fudoshin Clubs for the instructors to concentrate on.

UKASKO pushed hard for all martial arts coaching personnel to be qualified to a minimum of Level I Coach. Following their assessments, 4 Fudoshin instructors qualified to Level I coaches. Louise Jones, Chris Verry, Roddy Goodman and Barbara Hedges have all been successful. Martin Boosey also returned to the Club with a black belt and a Level I Coaching certificate. More students are waiting patiently for their chance to be assessed as Level I coaches.

The Fudoshin Karate Club is now a strong and well-established karate Club, and achieved 11^th place in the UKASKO awards for 2001.

Being keen to promote good practice and always looking to improve the Club, Sensei Jones decided to look at organisations other than UKASKO, and see what they had to offer.

In May 2002 it was agreed that the EKO was the organisation that could help Sensei Jones and his team of instructors take the Fudoshin Karate Club to a greater level.