Oss ! Welcome to the Dojo
Courses & Examinations
Our 1st Course and Exam Is 10th Kyu
Welcome to the Dojo, here we have all the video tutorials, including testing requirements for each rank.
The Dojo will be updated regularly, so visit often and catch all the latest SKO news, events, training tips and fun workouts.
Oss ! Welcome to the Dojo
Here we have all the video tutorials, including testing requirements for each rank.
The Dojo will be updated regularly, so visit often and catch all the latest SKO news, events, training tips and fun workouts.
A Brief history Of Shotokan Karate
Early records of martial arts go as far back as the Egyptians in about 3000BC!
The Chinese emperor Shi-Huang-Di (221-206 BC), was buried with more than 7,000 life-size terracotta figures, which included horses and soldiers to guard him in the afterlife, some of the unarmed soldiers are clearly in some sort of martial arts fighting stances.
Niju Kun - The 20 Guiding Principles Of Karatedo
Master Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of Shotokan karate, laid out the Twenty Precepts of Karate (Niju kun), which are there as a guide for all karateka to follow and adhere to. These principles form the foundations Shotokan karate. These twenty principles were based heavily on Bushido and Zen.
The principles allude to notions of respect, humility, compassion, patience, awareness and both an inward and outward calmness.
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