KARATE

Build a balanced body

Karate offers a great workout for both body and mind. Similar to yoga practice; karate encompasses meditation, trust and respect, co-ordination, precision, strength, and self discipline. Karate offers students more than just learning how to punch and kick, it can be a way of life.

Yoshin-Ryu (Willow Style) was founded in Australia by DAI Sensee John. L. Watkin. This style of karate incorporates close fighting techniques, along with throwing and sweeping movements.

Our qualified instructors have years of karate training experience. We offer classes for adults and children which are open all skill levels.

PLEASE NOTE: Weaponry classes (knife weapons) are NOT used or taught to students under the age of 16.

The willow tree is strong and supple

It is understood that in a time before 1671, a physician from Nagasaki, Japan named Akiyama Shirobei Yoshitoki founded the original Yoshin Ryu Jiujutsu, the “School of the Willow Heart”

After retreating to the Tenmangu Shrine, Master Akiyama meditated for 100 days and developed 303 techniques of his own. One day as the snow fell he noticed a willow tree which stood on the shrine grounds. Unlike the other trees the willow tree did not have a single broken branch from the heavy snows that had fallen. The branches of the willow had simply bowed and allowed the snow to fall from them, springing back with force, and saving the tree. This principle has been a vital element of ancient Japanese warrior arts.