Karate

Our dominant style of karate is called Wado-Ryu. This is an open hand, self defence style of karate, teaching discipline and effective self defence. We believe that discipline is one of the most important parts of our karate classes. Children learn this from the beginning as they are taught to line up, act on orders, take instruction and to control their anger as well as their techniques. They also learn during our classes that karate is not to be used to hurt people either at school or outside. Building a child's character is foremost in our training schedules within our karate classes. From the start our young students learn to respect each other within and outside the classes. We feel this is important as without respect in the class a karate student would become a danger to themselves and to others. The respect they learn should be carried with them outside the karate class into their everyday lives. Our karate students are taught that karate is only to be used as a means of self protection. The philosophy of karate is that the first move starts with a defensive one and not an attack. Our self-defence teaches awareness of surroundings and evasion of possible violent situations as well as learning to deal with confrontation should it occur.