Combat Karate

KOBUDO or "The Ancient way" is our weapons system. Like Karate the training is rooted in kata and the kata has the methods and techniques.

Kata is the heart of Karate, it is to Karate as shadow boxing is to boxing. Honto Kata training reduces the kata to the essential parts, allowing the student to infer the concepts that the kata is teaching outside the rigid "class room" version. As the Honto is studied the student can then work with another student on the concepts.

In karate we are not about wrestling, instead we are a striking art, but with that being said a strike allows us to enter the opponents space, make contact and continue with other "techniques", more strikes or even take-downs also known as throws. One techniqued flows to the next and the cycle continues to the eventual end