By: Talila Golan The Dojo Kun, credited to Gichin Funakoshi, is a set of rules or guiding principles, recited by the trainees at the closing of the training session. Recitation of the Dojo Kun isn’t practiced in every Shotokan karate dojo. It was not practiced in my original dojo nor
Six karateka from our Fremont Shotokan Karate dojo competed in the Shinkyu Shotokan 22nd Annual Teen & Adult Tournament last weekend. All of our team members did very well both in the Individual Kata, Team Kata, and Individual Kumite events. Great job! We are very, very proud of you. Oss!
When we think of winning gold award in karate we think of tournaments. For dedicated karateka however, karate holds a much larger part in our lives than dojo floor training and tournaments. Karate is a wonderful path for self-enhancement and and growing as a centered, capable human being. Last May
by Talila Golan In 1994 I was a graduate student at UW-Madison living with my spouse at the university’s family housing. At the time I had very little interest in or knowledge of karate, or of any martial art. One day I woke up to the news of an incident