Kansas City Shotokan Karate Club

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

Terasaki Budokan, Los Angeles – Little Tokyo (213) 473-3030249 S. Los Angeles StreetLos Angeles, CA90012 1-4 pm Saturday, August 12, 2023Admission is FREE and open to the public. SKA’s Nisei Week Exhibition and Tournament started in 1957 when Mr. Tsutomu Ohshima gave the first official demonstration of karate to the American public. The tradition continues […]

July 1-2, 2023 SKA Midwest jiyu kumite practices and tournament were led by godan, Bobby Bird, leader of the Memphis Dojo and, as of today, our new Midwest Regional Manager (replacing Mike Lyon who’s been allowed to retire after more than 35 years in the position). SKA Members of all ranks were invited. Bobby led […]

Congratulations Paul Cepe! Paul was awarded shodan (1st degree black belt) last Sunday during dan testing at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. The test was conducted by John Teramoto assisted by godans David Altman, Rob Clark, Bobby Bird, and Mike Lyon and observed by sandans and yodans following four grueling days of Midwest […]

What a wonderful weekend of practices we had when Norman Welch visited our KC Dojo April 28-30. Norman arrived Friday afternoon and black belts treated him to a great steak dinner and apple pie alamode at the locally famous Jess & Jim’s 1938 Steakhouse in Martin City. Satuday morning at 10am we gathered at the […]

David Altman, Mike Lyon and Carl Johnson conducted kyu test for six candidates from the UNL and KC dojos and were assisted during testing by nidans Takamasa Morita, Mike Kostroske, Greg Tunink, and Quang Nguyen. David Altman led a warmup and practice of basics and kata for fifteen Kansas City and University of Nebraska at […]

Norman Welch (founder and shihan of Canada Shotokan Karate) will be with us in Kansas City April 28-30, 2023. SKA members of all ranks are welcome. Please email Mike Lyon if you plan to attend and if you’d like to stay with a local member. Schedule (somewhat tentative): Friday Saturday Sunday Again, please RSVP to […]

Two Kansas City members, Paul Cepe (ikkyu) and Takamasa Morita (nidan) were among the twenty-seven who attended the January 20–22, 2023 NorCal Winter Special Training led by Saratoga Dojo’s Olof Tornblad (yodan). Proud of them all! Paul and Takamasa (4th and 3rd from right in the back row above).

Mike Lyon led a 1,000 oizuki practice on January 5, 2023 along with Patrick Moeller, Paul Cepe, Takamasa Morita, and Ken Richardson from the Kansas City Dojo. They were joined via Zoom by Harry Dolan (Wisconsin), ChingTse Yang-Lee (Boston), Linda Aspler (Montreal), Kenneth Woods (Portland), and Yosuke Kameda (Houston). The new year got off to […]

Our Kansas City dojo hosted Jeff Klein over the weekend of December 9-11, 2023. As with Jeff’s previous visits, it was an amazing weekend of three practices, each of which focused on aspects of shuto-uke (knife hand block). Jeff was joined by eleven Kansas City members plus two who’ve regularly joined us via Zoom, Harry […]