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The Best Sparring Gloves for Karate

After testing so, so many gloves over the years, we have narrowed it down to what we consider to be the absolute best sparring gloves available for karate, especially full-contact styles like Kyokushin and Seienjuku.

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Kids Need Karate!

Why should most kids learn karate? There are three main reasons why this is so important:

  1. Confidence

  2. Belonging

  3. Independence

We teach kids more than just awesome moves in our dojo, we teach them how to be strong inside and out.

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Chek News Big League Treatment

🎥🤩We're Famous! Last week we had the talented Jordan Cunningham from Chek News attend a class for his Big League Treatment segment. The results were...AWESOME!

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Karate Pro Shop Now Open!

I have now officially opened my karate proshop! This online store represents the culmination of my years of experience using and purchasing karate equipment as a consumer. Now, I want to put my knowledge to good use and help others by offering a curated selection of the best equipment I can find in Canada.

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Why Train Karate?

With so much discussion about which is the “best” martial art, it’s easy to forget the real reason we enter the dojo at all. At the heart of the question “why train karate,” or any martial art, is simply the joy of training.

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Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage

Earlier this year I returned to Japan to train karate and to hike a pilgrimage trail in Wakayama known as the Kumano Kodo. This trail is a six day, five night hike through the inaka, or countryside south of Osaka. The path winds through small towns, rice paddies and forests filled with towering pine trees and bamboo. Walking along the trail day after day was a truly spiritual experience and an inspiration to my journey to deciding to take the next steps to opening a karate school at home in Canada.

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