Kansas City Shotokan Karate Club

Linda and I attended the 60th Anniversary of France Shotokan July 5-7, 2024 in Arles, Port Saint Louis, and Marseille and had the most wonderful time with everyone! David and Laura Altman also attended. So did many other old friends from the Midwest and USA and Canada. Truly spectacular celebration! Message from Ohshima Sensei

Tom Muzila led this year’s Spring in the South weekend of practices and socializing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. KC’s Carl Johnson and Mike Lyon attended along with UNL’s David Altman. Nora and Oleg Favorov graciously hosted us along with a house full of other visitors and we had the BEST time eating and drinking […]

On April 27 the members of Kansas City and UNL Dojos assembled for practice and to grade white and brown belts (kyu test). David Altman, leader of UNL dojo led an intense warmup and practice, then kyu test got underway. Five members tested:

At the annual SKA Black Belt Council meeting held at Shotokan Ohshima Dojo near Santa Barbara February 3, 2024, our Kansas City dojo was awarded Midwest Dojo of the Year in recognition of our hosting of special training and several open-to-all-members weekend practices led by seniors from around the continent. Mike Kostroske was awarded Midwest […]

NOTE: There will be no 6pm practice on Monday December 25 and January 1. Our Thursday and Saturday practices will take place as usual during the holiday. At noon on Monday, January 1, 2024 nidan Mike Kostroske will lead a punching practice of oizuki and gyakuzuki. We have traditionally rung in the New Year this […]

Kyu test (rank testing for white and brown belts) is held twice each year in April and November near the anniversaries of Master Funakoshi’s birth and death. The fall kyu test was led by David Altman (University of Nebraska Lincoln Shotokan Karate Club leader) assisted by Mike Lyon, Carl Johnson, and black belts from KC […]

Mike Lyon, Carl Johnson and David Altman traveled together to attend the annual Yodan (godans invited) & Godan practices held November 4 & 5 at Shotokan Ohshima Dojo near Santa Barbara, California. They flew from Kansas City to Los Angeles (and shared Carl’s delicious cashews), rented a car and drove up to the Motel 6 […]

The Kansas City Shotokan Karate Club hosted the 2023 Shotokan Karate of America Midwest Winter Special Training from Friday through Sunday October 27-29, 2023. It was great! Twenty-seven SKA members participated. They came from Texas, Illinois, California, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Oregon, and Nebraska. We slept and took our meals in and above the dojo […]

Mike Lyon here. I had such a great time at SKA’s Boston Dojo leading practices with dojo leader Jesse Winch on Wednesday, October 11 and with senior instructor Johnson Chung on Saturday, October 14, 2023. I was in Cambridge on other business and was happy that Jesse and Johnson were able to taxi me to […]

Effective Aug 16, 2023, Wednesday 6-8pm practice is suspended indefinitely. The rest of our practice schedule remains unchanged.