Standouts at this year’s competition were from Shotokan Karate-Do Association in Rancho Santa Margarita. Three ... first place in youth ages 13-16 Kata (forms); first place in youth ages 13 ...

Katharina herself has trained for over 20 years and is a black belt holder in the Shotokan karate system. She has seen directly that training has many benefits in cognition and mindfulness in ...

Rwanda’s karate is very good.” Those were the words of renowned South African karate instructor San Pillay after he observed the discipline and technique of local karatekas during the second edition ...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Members of four Southern California-area karate studios met on the mats at the Bell Tower Regional Community Center earlier this month for Rancho-based Shotokan Karat… ...

Newark Shotokan Karate Club was represented at the Japan Karate Association (JKA) National Championships by eight students.

Old-school karate, the kind found in decent applications of kata, is pretty much all about grabbing at the crotch, headbutting and breaking free of grabs or defending basic street-attacker-style ...

Since its establishment at Santa Clara University, the Shotokan Karate team builds strength of character and self-defense skills. As a club, we have multiple weekly practices, training our kata and ...

Shotokan karate was influenced by martial-arts styles from Japan, ... Kata involves floor exercises without an opponent, and kumite involves controlled sparring.

In 1986 I joined the Japan Karate Association’s instructor training program. I have been training since 1975 and going to tournaments since the early 1980s. I am a five-time Japan Karate Association U ...