Kaicho Liven was born in Tel Aviv on March 3, 1949 and has lived in Denmark since 1981.

Kaicho Liven started training karate when he was 9 years old and graduated with the first Dan at the age of 15. From that moment on he decided to dedicate his life to the Way (jap. Do) of martial arts, I am a believer in hard work, dedication and self-discipline.

At the age of 18 he enlisted to become a member of a group of paratroopers special anti-terrorism group.

He served the army in the "gdud890" division of unit 35, took part in many missions to find terrorists who did terror and bring them back to the condemnation of justice.

He served in the Israeli army from 02.02.1967 to 02.02.1981, Kaicho Liven has a lot of combat experience in the army, street combat, worked as a bodyguard, had 3 times war injuries in Israel but is always available is ready to fight for his country.

He was forced to leave military service because of an evil evil, he left for Denmark to fight this evil in the cold but still he never left Israel traveling to Israel every month for a short time for the last 40 years.

Kaicho Raffi Liven is the founder of the World Academy of Martial Arts. He created the Di Karate Sho Shin Do style and developed the Krav Maga LI self-defense system – one of the few developments accepted by the late Master Imi Lichtenfeld.

Over the past 61 years he has trained many different systems including Shotokan, Kyokushinkai-Karate, Thai-boxing, Kendo, Judo, Aikido, Kobudo, Original Okinawa-te Kick-boxing and Full-contact Karate. His philosophy is that a person should never stop learning and keeping an open mind to everything. Today he is one of the highest ranking Karate masters in Europe.

She fights against a malignant tumor in the breast after a dangerous surgery, begins treatment with irradiation she slowly resumed training, as he himself explains the physical and mental power he has developed over many years has allowed her to defeat the tumor.

After the 80s he was invited to Norway to prepare the Norwegian national team for the European Championchip and there he discovered that the cool climate was good for his health, he decided to settle in a country with a climate like in Norway, he eventually moved to Denmark, where he still resides, and there he began his first karate school.