Join us! We are raising money for charity – this year for Direct Relief (see below). During the week of December 11-17, we did kicks – LOTS of them… For the entire week, we held kick-a-thon events in all youth classes, building up to the finale on Thursday evening. In that 7pm class, we did […]
WTKO held its first virtual dan exam, over Zoom, on July 16. Susan put significant effort into preparing for this exam, making the most of online training options the past four months. She successfully passed to nidan (2nd degree black belt), joining other senior black belts at Silicon Valley Karate. Congratulations!
BAY AREA PARENT Magazine awarded Silicon Valley its GOLD award in the “BEST MARTIAL ARTS” category for Silicon Valley in both 2019 & 2020. Here is the link to the 2020 results:https://www.bayareaparent.com/Article/Best-Bay-Area-Martial-Arts-Schools/
As we are doing “virtual Karate training,” the timing seemed right to have another one of these competitions. We had quite a few great submissions for our latest Minecraft competition. The objective was to create a Karate-themed image. Students interpreted this a variety of ways. Third Place: Nice work, Aaron! Second Place: This was a […]
Ready to be impressed? Our dojo is known for taking on challenges most people cannot even imagine. And January’s Exercise Challenge was no exception to being exceptional! Quite a few of us worked up to over 100 push-ups + 100 sit-ups in a day, for multiple days in a row. Top finishers, with their max […]
Sensei Keeling was at Los Altos High School for a presentation by their robotics club recently when his wife noticed a poster on the wall saying there was going to be a self-defense class the following Monday. So immediately after his blood donation that Monday, he stopped by the school to see what they were […]
Our grand total for the week-long kick-a-thon event: 114,520 kicks + 26,260 punches = 140,780 reps! And that is just counting the official group kicking & punching events. Additionally, some students did a total of well over 1000 kicks while at the dojo, outside of regular classes. And some people did many extra kicks at […]
Since our secret has apparently been revealed, we might as well admit it… Silicon Valley Karate is proud of its status as the official Elf-Defense Training Center. Santa’s most elite elf security guards train with us this time of year to help protect Santa and all the presents.* *Please note that these special sessions are […]
Our annual charity kick-a-thon event took place the week of December 13-19. As a group, we once again surpassed 100,000 repetitions. The finale was on Dec 19, where the adult class participants each performed 2020 kicks + 2020 punches. This year’s fundraising effort is for ChallengeDay. Challenge Day is a social emotional learning experience that […]
The annual August Shinkyu Shotokan tournament on August 25 was a relatively small competition this year but, as usual, a high-quality event. We had just three competitors representing our dojo and they only took part in kata. Yet they managed to take home a total of six medals at this event. Keshav, Gaku and Sophie […]
