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      • About Okami Karate Dojo
      • Owner Senesei Chris
    • Custom Weapons
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  • Home
  • Karate
    • Goju Karate
    • Karate Kobudo
  • MMA
  • Self-Defense
  • TAPD KALI
    • TAPD Overview
    • TAPD in Action
    • TAPD Level 1
    • TAPD Shop
    • TAPD Levels 2-5
  • About Us
    • About Okami Karate Dojo
    • Owner Senesei Chris
  • Custom Weapons
  • Schedule

Goju Karate 剛柔流 空手

The Hard and Soft Style of the Empty Hand

 

Kihon

Kumite

Kihon

Drilling of basic strikes, blocks, kicks, throws, locks, etc.

Kata

Kumite

Kihon

Solo forms to improve kihon, and represent fighting scenarios.

Kumite

Kumite

self defense

Sparring application of techniques.

self defense

Cultural Enrichement

self defense

Our karate program is blended with practical defense for common attacks.

Cultural Enrichement

Cultural Enrichement

Cultural Enrichement

Learn the history, language, culture, and philosophies of Okinawa/Japan.

Rank progression

Cultural Enrichement

Cultural Enrichement

Watch your hard work develop as you move through the belt system.

Our karate program

 

    Here at Okami Karate Dojo we train an eclectic variant of Goju Karate founded by Chogun Miyagi in the early 1900s.   This means we practice traditional moves and forms with modern fighting applications, practical self-defense, grappling, "MMA" style fighting, and weapons.  This is what karate has always meant to be, which makes an outstanding and full filling life passion.  


Karate has often been nick named "the art of self-defense" for its solid training of basic techniques.  It has also been called "the art of striking while grappling" which exemplifies the more advanced close quarter fighting done in the system.  We bring use both of these elements to teach and train students.  


Our curriculum 

We focus extensively on kihon or "basics" including strikes, blocks, kicks, kick defenses,  stances, sparring, body movement, fighting postures.  This is complimented by pushing hands, stand up grappling, trapping, throwing, takedowns, ground grappling, and other gritty aspects of real fighting.  We also balance this with traditional kata, bunkai applications, historical context, culture, linguistics, and structured respect and discipline.



2019 wfmaf Heavyweight championship

Fantastic front kick and dodge from our karate ka Chancey Boone at the World Fighting Martial Arts Federation Championships in Long Island 

Ōkami Karate Dojo

senseichris@okamikaratedojo.com

(203) 218-6109

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