SJ Karate

SJ Karate “SJK” is a non-profit organization that is most interested in teaching children and adults, traditional karate and self-defense, in a safe, respectful, fun, positive, and family environment. Our Instructors have several years of experience working with children and adults. Our strength is empowering students to develop effective and usable martial arts techniques which enable them to achieve their own success, self-confidence, discipline, as martial arts followers.

SJK proudly announces a developed, appropriate and practical curriculum for children and adults of all ages, who are interested in learning Martial Arts, as a lifestyle, regardless if candidates have or not any experience or karate background.

At SJK, we teach traditional Shotokan karate, which is a style of karate, founded by Martial Arts Master Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945)

SJ Karate Instructors’ teaching method is the result of a combination of techniques studied from Grand Master Funakoshi, mixed with strategies learned from Karate Masters who developed, improved, and expanded the Shotokan Karate in South America, as Sensei Kenji Kimura, Sensei Koichi Kaguauchi, and followers. These combined karate Asian/South American techniques, together with the powerful and effective American Shotokan Karate style, make our teaching method easy to learn, effective to use, dynamic to practice, universal to understand, and well known by the International Shotokan community, official Shotokan authorities and karate practitioners.