Our weekly schedule now includes 8 general kids’ classes, one advanced kids’ class and two teens classes, as well as 10 hours/week of adult classes. We will soon be adding even more! See the latest schedule here. Our after-school “enrichment” classes are to start the week of Labor Day, at Fairmeadow in Palo Alto and […]
During the month of September, we will be studying the kata Nijushiho or Nijuushiho (二十四歩). This kata’s name is less poetic than some others. It means “Twenty-four Steps.” Although a relatively short kata, in Nijushiho we practice a wide variety of techniques and applications of power. It features most of the basic Shotokan stances and some less common stances, and slow application of […]
This past week, three of our members re-tested for their shodan (first-degree black belt). They have each put in many years of dedicated study/training and were successful!
A photographer from the Palo Alto Weekly came by to take photos and ask questions last Thursday. This was for an article about Cubberley Community Center and the various activities that take place at it these days. online edition: https://paloaltoonline.atavist.com/inside-cubberley scroll down to “Slideshow: The Groups at Cubberley” and click on the right side of […]
Sensei Michael Berger will again be visiting our dojo on Monday, August 28. As many SVSK members already know, Sensei Berger is a very highly-regarded, highly-skilled instructor, known not only for his traditional Shotokan skills, but also for his knowledge of practical applications and Chinese martial arts. Sensei Berger trained in Japan in the 1980s & […]
Check out an interview by one of our dojo members with WTKO Chief Instructor Sensei Richard Amos: http://ethicsincubator.net/ethics-and-the-arts-interviews/richard-amos-sensei-interview Dr. Susan Liautaud teaches classes in Ethics at Stanford University and holds the rank of shodan with our dojo.
It was announced this week that our Chief Instructor, Sensei Jon Keeling, has been appointed as Chairman of the WTKO’s US Technical Committee. In his new position, he will be communicating with other officials within the organization regarding standardization of technical finepoints, prioritization of training/teaching points, etc., disseminating this information across the various dojo in […]
We broke a couple records in April: *A total of 55 kids took tests for stripes or kyu ranks. *A total of 16 people took part in the black belt exams. This was the largest dan (black belt) exam anywhere in the Americas in the WTKO‘s history! As usual, not everyone is ready for advancement […]
Following a total of eight hours of seminars with WTKO Chief Instructor Amos Sensei, we had a record-setting black belt exam on April 30. This was the largest black belt exam in the Americas thus far in the WTKO’s history. We had a total of 16 people testing for various ranks from shodan (1st degree) […]
We are next moving to Chinte for the advanced kata in our Saturday classes, from May (Heian Nidan for the basic kata). Our last kata-of-the-month was Gankaku. Gankaku very closely resembles its predecessor kata, Chinto. This next kata is Chinte and many historians believe the two kata to have been linked in some way but […]
