MASSIMO BRAGLIA was born in Italy in 1963 and became Shōtōkan Karate Master in 1997. Since then he has studied Shōrin Matsubayashi, Makotokai Karate, Matayoshi Kobudō and internal Chinese martial arts (Nèijiā Quánfǎ). After doing a lot of research, he founded the Ahnan Tomari-te Karate-dō Organization and started holding international seminars. In 2015 he published “The Shōtōkan Stylistic System” and in 2020 “Tomari-te Karate Nyūmon”.