Australian Karate Academy - Salisbury

Gradings are coming up!

Now is the time to get prepared.

Get to as many training sessions as you can, make sure you know your syllabus and ask questions if there is anything you are unsure about.

Don’t leave it until the last minute. Let’s put in the work now and make sure everyone is ready to perform at their best on grading day!

🥋 DO YOU HAVE A BUDDY WHO TRAINS WITH US?

Then come and train with them during our Bring Your Buddy Week, running from Monday to Saturday.

You’ll get to train alongside your friend, and they’ll help guide you through the class, show you the basics and make sure you feel right at home.

You can try:
🥋 Traditional Okinawan Karate
🤼 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
⚔️ Ryukyu Kobudo — traditional weapons training

Australian Karate Academy has been teaching traditional Okinawan karate in Brisbane for more than 35 years.

We train from a dedicated full-time dojo, with classes running six days a week for children, teenagers and adults.

We are always looking to welcome good people into our dojo community—and good people usually know other good people.

So, if your buddy trains here, we would love to have you training here too.

One full week of training. Completely free. Monday to Saturday.

On Sunday, Cheyne Sensei taught a short seminar on how to survive if you are taken to the ground.

The focus was simple and practical: protect yourself, stay calm, create space, avoid getting trapped, and get safely back to your feet as quickly as possible.

We do not want to stay on the ground. The goal is to survive, escape, and regain control.

We recently hosted the first Brisbane Bushi Cup, a traditional karate and kobudo competition created for adult karateka from across Queensland.

The event brought together competitors from eight dojos, giving them the opportunity to perform kata, represent their dojo and demonstrate the karate lineage they practise.

The standard was excellent, but the attitude throughout the day was even better. Competitors supported each other, officials worked together, and many people stayed afterwards for a drink and a chat. It had the relaxed, respectful feel of an old-school karate competition.

Competition is not the main focus of every dojo involved, but events like this give people a goal to work towards and a chance to share their own karate journey.

A huge thank you to every official, volunteer, instructor and competitor who helped make the first Bushi Cup such a successful day. The feedback has been extremely positive, and we are already looking forward to doing it again next year.

NO CLASSES TODAY - Instead, we are running the.Brisbane Bushi Cup - A Karate Kata and Kobudo Tournament for Veterans aged 35 Years+.

Updated timetable for Term 3

Each year there is a friendly bet between our Salisbury Dojo and Botany Dojo for state of origin- the losing sensei must wear the coloured belt of the winning state. Due to some serious cheating, NSW won and Cheyne Sensei graciously toured iconic Qld spots just to take a photo in a dirty blue belt..