Beach Training in Santa Cruz on July 13th
This annual event is hosted by the Shinkyu Shotokan group and is fun for the whole family. Please see the Shinkyu Shotokan website for more details.
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Keeling Sensei to Teach at WTKO International Camp
Keeling Sensei has once again been asked to be one of the featured instructors at this year’s WTKO international summer camp. See more details on the WTKO website.
More Tournament Successes
We had eleven kids enter a tournament this past Sunday. Eleven of them won medals and/or trophies (one of them is not in the photo). Great job, kids!
Bring a Friend to the Dojo Day will be March 13th
This is the chance to try out our classes for FREE! This will NOT be a typical introductory class, where new people are taught a few basic moves on the side of the room. We will all participate in class together and will go through various basics, simple kata and kumite. New people will get […]
Instructors’ Class February 8th
Area Shotokan black belts are invited to participate in our special Instructors’ Classes. Next session is Feb 8 (Saturday), 8:30-11:00 am at SVSK dojo in Redwood City. We focus on becoming better instructors; not simply training harder or learning more complex kata (which we may also do…).
Special Seminars/Camp in Palo Alto March 26-30
One of the world’s biggest and best karate camps is to take place in Palo Alto March 26-30, hosted by our dojo! Fifteen or more instructors, all of whom have lived in Japan, will be teaching at least fifty seminars over the course of several days. Instructors from locations including Indonesia and Brazil are scheduled to come. Participants […]
Kick-a-Thon Brings in $5,000
The totals are in for our annual charity kick-a-thon in December. In our adult class, we did a total of 4028 repetitions 2,014 kicks 2,014 punches In our kids’ and teens’ classes, we did 400-900 in each of 6 classes. Official total for the week: 6,064 kicks 2,014 punches All for charity. We brought in […]
Annual Shotokan Kata Review
We will have our annual “Shotokan Kata Review” in our Redwood City dojo on Saturday, January 11, 8-10 am. In this two hours, we will do at least 27 kata, twice each. Everyone who knows at least a few Shotokan kata is welcome to attend. Just $10 fee for non-members!
Think Outside the Box
Think Outside the Box (This article originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of Shoto-Mag.) Over the past several years, many Shotokan enthusiasts have discovered the joy of analyzing kata application possibilities. For me, this journey began in 1984, as I experimented with non-standard applications by myself between classes at the dojo. At the time, […]
Gedan-barai Habits
Gedan-barai Habits (This article originally appeared in the April 2006 issue of ShotoMag.) One of the first techniques we learned, gedan-barai (literally “lower-level sweep” but commonly known as “down-block”) is something we have all done many times. It is a very useful technique and its prevalence in Shotokan kata suggest that the masters of […]