On Saturday, August 12, 2023, SKA‘s 64th Annual Nisei Week Karate Exhibition and Tournament took place at the Terasaki Budokan in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Since 2004, the event had been held in the Braun Gymnasium at Caltech in Pasadena. However, with the completion of the Terasaki Budokan, this year marked SKA’s first Nisei Week […]
NEW ONLINE MEMBERSHIP SYSTEM FOR SKA AND CSK
SKA is in the process of replacing our current membership management system with a vibrant, new online program. We will transition to this new system in late 2023. View the full announcement
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THE NEXT THREE WEEKS
DAILY schedule of ZOOM practices during the pandemic
Growing schedule of Zoom practices - wonderful to make practice with others during physical isolation.
A Note On Gankaku Jim Sagawa, John Teramoto This month’s senior kata is Gankaku. As announced at the practice following this year’s Black Belt Convention, we should make a change in how we execute step #11 of the kata as ...
Jion with Dom Pizoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX6GEjAMVI Godan Dom Pizoli led Jion practice in Philadelphia during March, 2016
Hip Replacement? I am 53 years old. I started practicing in 2012. Leading up to my Shodan testing in 2017, I practiced long and hard. I believe this led to a hip injury that my doctors tell me ...
Breathing In Practice, Kata and Combat A student recently asked me about breathing and the notion that one should breathe continually outward while performing kata. This isn’t the first time. As martial artists, we’ve been indoctrinated fairly early on the importance ...
In Memory of Henry Wilkerson (1942–2023) Henry Wilkerson, former SCKA/SKA senior black belt, longtime Long Beach dojo leader and champion, passed away on September 3, 2023, after a battle with cancer. Henry was born on April 3, 1942, in Tyler, Texas. ...
Summer Special Training West 2023: Two Perspectives Summer Special Training West 2023 took place during June 14–18, at California State University Channel Islands. Below are two perspectives of the training. As I sit down to write this a few days after wrapping up ...
Godan Dom Pizoli Visits Chicago On the weekend of June 24, 2023, the Chicago dojo was pleased to have godan Dom Pizoli lead training for two days. After visiting Kansas City and practicing under the tutelage of godan Norman Welch, ...
2023 Midwest Jiyu Kumite Clinic I walked into the amazing Kansas City dojo where the event would be held this year. It’s the kind of place that someone can immediately get excited about on sight. The aesthetics bode very well ...
2023 Black Belt Convention Report For the first time in three years, black belts from Shotokan Karate of America (SKA) and Canada Shotokan Karate (CSK) were able to gather in person at the Shotokan Ohshima Dojo for the annual Black ...
SKA/CSK 2024 Calendar: Invitation for Photo Submissions by November 15, 2023 Update - December 6, 2023 We are running later than normal this year. We are awaiting photos from the Maryknoll celebration in Japan, which we expect very soon. There will be a 2024 pictorial calendar. For the ...
2023 Brown Belt Practice at the Shotokan Ohshima Dojo On Saturday, April 1, 2023, brown belts from around the country and Canada gathered for a pair of practices at the Shotokan Ohshima Dojo. Below are two perspectives from those practices. “Oh...yes!” This thought flashed across ...