1963 Commenced training under Paul Harris.

1967 Trained under Sensei Shigero Kato Was graded to Shodan

1968 Became the Instructor of the dojo in Pitt Street Sydney

Organsised the first full-contact Championships in Australia, which was between Australia and New Zealand and was a Member of the winning Australian Team.

Graded Nidan

1970 Travelled to Japan for training at Honbu and according to official Honbu records and the Uchi Dechi certificate he trained in Japan for 395 days.

Recieved a special certificate from Sosai Oyama for attending the a record amount of classes.

This was considered to be the golden age for Kyokushin, in the same class was Teruto Yamaki, the first All Kyokushin Japan Champion. Also training at Honbu at this time was Diago Oishi, Hatsuo Royama, Higashidani, K atuaki Sato and Takashi Azuma. All went on to become members of the Japanese team at the first World Kyokushin Championships

During this time a kickboxer challenged the Kyokushin Honbu to provide someone for a no-rules full-contact fight. Kancho instructed John Taylor to accept the challenge, which he won.

1971 Graded to Sandan. The requirement for the grading apart from the technical aspects of kihon, Edogeiko and kata, was to do a handstand on two fingers (each hand) be able to kick at least one of the hanging tennis balls with tobi ushero mawashi geri and then to fight the whole black belt class.

Returned from Japan.

1974 Returned to Japan and trained for three months accompanied by Peter Wolfe

Graded to Yondan

1975 Started the Australian Kyokushin Karate Association. The original meeting of the AKKA was attended by Gary Viccars, Grant Rodonich, Peter Wolfe and Trevor Field

1977 Organised the first National Full-contact Championships. This event was attended by Sosai Oyama, which was the first visit to Australia Sosai Oyama. He was accompanied by Daigo Oishi and Takashi Azuma.

1978 Graded to Godan

1979 Was appointed the South Pacific Chairman

1980 At the Australian Kyokushin Open Full-contact Championships held on the Gold Coast which was attended by Kancho Oyama. John Taylor did the first baseball bat break with his shin in Australia.

1982 Travelled to Taupo, New Zealand as the Chairman of the South Pacific to establish the official New Zealand Kyokushin Karate Organisation. Among those in attendance at the meeting were Solomon Purcell, Rob Begbei, Bob McCallum and Alex Terris.

1982 Graded to Rokudan in

1986 Graded to Nanadan

1988 Organised the First Kyokushin Commonwealth Championships. The event was held at the Sydney Town Hall and was attended by 16 countries

Born in 1946

1967 Commenced trainingand began training in Kyokushin Karate at the dojo of Bill Paauw in Little Ryrie St, Geelong. That dojo produced some very high profile karate-ka including Brian Ellison, Mervyn Nelis (now head of Seido Karate in Australia), Brian Cole, Peter Volke, Mick Varker and Ritchie Saunders. Who would have guessed that nearly 30 years later Gary is still training in the same style and that he would rise to be one of the most prominent Kyokushin Karate instructors in Australia.

1970 Gary has been teaching Kyokushin Karate when he opened his first dojo at Ocean Grove as a green belt. He gained shodan in 1973, nidan in 1975, sandan in 1979, yondan in 1983 and in 1989 he and Nick Cujic became the first Australians to ever physically undergo a test for godan in Australia.

1970 Was a member of the Geelong team that won the first ever Victorian Kyokushin Teams Championship and thus began a very distinguished tournament career that spanned the decade, both in knockdown and point system. Shihan represented Victoria a total of 8 times.

Was a member of the first ever Victorian team to win an Australian F.A.K.O. Teams title (Perth 1977) as well as placing in the top 4 heavyweights in Australian knockdown in 1977 and 1978. In addition, Shihan Gary has always been recognized as one of Kyokushinkai's best breaking technicians. He, together with Rowan Stephens and John Klose, once demolished a total of 300 cement tiles in 28 seconds. He was also one of the first in Australia to perform the baseball bat break with a shin kick.

Represent Australia at the second World Kyokushin Championships in 1979. He had also been selected in the Australian F.A.K.O. team for the 1977 W.U.K.O. Championships. Thus he is one of the very few people to have ever been selected to represent Australia in both Knockdown and point system.

1986 Shihan Gary completed the 50 man kumite test also completed the test were, Jim Phillips, Tony Bowden and Luke Grgurevic. Tom Levar is the only other Australian (so far) to later duplicate this feat. Gary's achievement was all the more remarkable as he was 39 years of age at the time of the test.

1979 Gary used his trip to the World tournament to stay in Japan for training and became the first Geelong person to do so. He trained with Sosai Mas.Oyama 3 times a week plus many of the other Kyokushin legends. He also completed the notorious Kyokushin winter camp (his leader at this camp was none other than Akiyoshi Matsui) . Thus he is one of the few to have gained that indepth insight into Kyokushin Karate by living and training daily in Japan and personally training with Sosai over an extended period.

Upon his return to Australia in 1980 he decided to become actively involved in judging and refereeing and rose to be an International referee during the next decade. He has officiated at many International Kyokushin events.

His dojo in Geelong has always been a stronghold of Kyokushin Karate in Victoria and he has produced many fine karate-ka. He opened a full time dojo at The Arena which was described as one of the best Kyokushin dojo in the World. Unfortunately the building went into receivership and Gary had to shift. His dojo at the Geelong Y.M.C.A. has been operating since 1987 and has the highest instructor base of any Kyokushin dojo in Australia ( 1 Rokudan, 2 yondans, 1 sandan and 2 nidans all training in the 1 dojo).

Recently he has expanded his dojo base and now has 4 dojo in Geelong all linked together by the Y.M.C.A.

1993 Sosai appointed Gary as a Branch Chief and since that time he has worked to develop his branch. Shihan Gary has dojo is Victoria and Tasmania.

Upon Sosai's death Shihan Gary chose to align with the Japanese Branch Chief group and he hosted that group's Australian Championships in 1996. However, the union was not a happy one and Shihan Viccars joined the group headed by Shihan Nobuhito Tezuka 8th Dan, Shihan Yoshikazu Matsushima 7th Dan and Shihan Hiroshi Masuda 7th Dan, in November, 1996.

At that time a South Pacific Organization was formed and Shihan Gary was elected as the Secretary as well as becoming the Technical Director for Australia.

In June 1997 Shihan Gary was graded to 6th Dan, thus joining the elite of Kyokushin instructors in the World. Among the tributes and congratulations he received was one from Shihan Trevor Field 5th Dan. Shihan Field in not a member of the Tezuka group but had this to say:

"Of all the people I have known or trained with over the past 27 years I don't know of any who has contributed so much, asked for so little, or worked harder for the advancement of Kyokushin Karate. My heart felt congratulations go out to you, it is a reward justly deserved and I know that you will wear it with the dignity, respect and honour befitting this high rank. It is no less than you deserve."

Shihan Trevor Field - 18th June, 1997