The Art of Self Defense at the Virginia Dojo
Transform Your Life, Stay Safe, Get Fit & Feel Great!
Okinawan Shorin Ryu Shidokan Karate Dojo
We're different from other karate & martial arts schools.
* We teach Only Adult Self Defense Karate.
* Fun, Cooperative Classes Quickly Improve Your Self Defense Reactions
Imagine How You will apply a technique to the point to where your training partner indicates it starts to hurt. Then we back off. This way we learn how much pressure to apply in real life to convince someone to leave you alone.
* Classes taught by:
- a
9th Degree Karate Master with 45+ years of teaching experience, or
- Women's Classes taught by a
4th Degree Black Belt
with over 20 years of Karate experience
* Our Training Goal is For You to Get Home Safely
* * Warning! Many of These Self Defense Reactions are Prohibited in Competition
So We Don't Compete for trophies or medals.
- Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate
- Women's Self Defense Karate
Can You Imagine a Karate Dojo where
- Women make up Over 30% of the members!
- Members' Average Age at 45 Years!
- Adult Karate Classes every day of the Week!
If Others can do it, So Can You
What are You Waiting for?
We focus on self defense Karate
* We start with the punch, kick, blocks found in all karate and martial arts.
* Then we explore the simple, obvious, hidden hand (kakushite) Self Defense Karate applications that are in plain sight yet mostly overlooked. Okinawan Karate Masters teach them only to a few of their most trusted senior students.
* Sensei Iha often mentioned, most people only need the punch, kick, blocks of karate. Because I was often in tenuous situations overseas, and teaching people who used Karate often for self defense, Sensei Iha taught me the grappling and breaking applications hidden in Karate Kata.
* Once you see these obvious, easy to learn, self defense Karate reactions you will be amazed that they were always there in plain sight.
* We cooperate with our training partners in Karate class to learn self defense applications while avoiding injuries.
"I really appreciate learning the grappling & tussleing Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate responses because it reveals a new meaning to Self Defense Karate!"
Our Alexandria Karate Class Members Also Enjoy a
One-Fee Montly Membership
that includes:
- Free Karate Rank Promotions
and corresponding Color Karate Belts up to Karate Black Belt
- Free Equipment Use
(punching board, kicking bags, wooden dummy arms, etc.)
- No contracts!
You Can Stop Classes at Any Time
Pay Only for the Months You Train.
Virginia Karate Dojo
Self Defense Karate Guidelines
Perform Your Karate Kata as a Fight
No Dancing in Your Pajamas!
Karate is Much More than Punch-Kick-Block
1. To Maximize Force = Use Your Mass
(from your hips) X Acceleration
(Acceleration = Change in Speed
Squared)
* Focus on Your Speed Not Muscle!
2. Chin Ku Chi or Bone-Muscle-Engery
Be like a Tidal Wave to overcome
oppositon.
3. No Foot Spins in Self Defense
Karate!
4. Move Your Base Foot first,
Then engage Your Hips, and
Finally Your Hands for Effective Self
Defense!
(Fo-Hi-Ha)
5. Hikite: What is in your Hand You
Pull Back?
6. Your Punch/Kick = Block = Throw =
Punch/Kick
7. Turns in Self Defense Karate Kata
Represent a Grappling Throw/Break
8. Learn your Karate Kata by the
Count then
Perform Self Defense Karate Kata
with No Count, or
do them by modules to reveal
Self Defense Applications
