The Karate Academy of South-Africa

Tremendous amount of energy and effort is behind any athlete preparing to compete on the world arena. The first step in a long journey of an athlete is when an interest is triggered to participate in a certain activity or in this case karate training. Persistence is the next key necessary to achieve success. In [...]

The legendary instructors class in Japan in 1956, JKA started the kenshusei instructors’ training programme instituted by Masatoshi Nakayama, chief instructor of JKA. Many famous instructors graduated from the programme, still in operation in Japan today. A number of South Africans tried this custom which resulted in our country leading the seniority in the karate [...]

The father of modern karatedo, Gichin Funakoshi, created a code of guidelines for the practitioners of karate in 1922 that seem relevant to this day. These truths are even today recited by students in the traditional schools before each training session and meticulously enforced by the seniors of those schools. There are five maxims of [...]

An undeniable fact about our favourite pastime is that practitioners must master the art of projection before any offensive technique can become effective in a real-life situation. You need to get from point A to point B in the shortest possible time. Obviously one can contemplate many ways, but the choice of movement is predominately [...]

Free Gratis/Mahala training for fathers and mothers of Academy students! The Academy offers free training for all parents of students training at any of our schools ….. for two months! We have adult beginner classes at all our schools at very convenient times. We often read of services and goods offered at no cost but [...]

Great things are happening with our Academy this year! We have just ended an incredibly successful marketing drive at all our schools. It is indeed motivating to experience the number of young people still hungry to learn our ancient fighting art! The Academy will dedicate this year not only to improve order but also to [...]

The value of kata? On posing the question to my students on the difference between kata and kumite, many wise answers are offered. Kata is the predesigned sequence of movements, opposed to kumite, which can be defined as fighting in different variations. A short answer of “nothing” is hardly offered. Kata is kumite and kumite [...]

South Africa will send a h3 and well prepared team to our official style world championships hosted in Cancun in July 2012. Abe sensei together with the JSKA Shihankai pledged their support for this event. The South African delegation will consist of management, coaches, referees, supporters and competitors. Management will consist of parents volunteering their [...]

It was unscrupulously, inhumanly hard but everyone will be back! It was still dark when my alarm unceremoniously shook me out of a deep sleep and a quick shower later had me on the barren highway to Johannesburg. Very few drivers find sufficient reason to travel to our neighbouring city at five in the morning! [...]

Enormous growth in both quality and quantity have been experienced in schools of karate in our capital city in the last number of years. A successful year was celebrated with the return of the JKS national karate team from the JKS world championships in Scotland. Andre Kok from Pretoria led the huge delegation, under the [...]