Kelowna Karate and Fitness

JKA National Championships, Montreal 🥇🥇

Congratulations to our Kelowna athletes with their performances.

Geordie.A Gold Kata🥇Gold Kumite🥇 Canadian National Champion!!!
Sofia.R Top 4 for Kata

Wonderful to see the improvement of all the Canadian athletes in their division’s.

Some photos of the BC team training at Sensei Angelo Kirkland dojo.

Attended Monday evenings Civic Community award as a finalist for Male Athlete of the year.
Thank you to everyone who put in the work to help get myself nominated as it was a great evening.

Last night was the 51st Civic & Community Awards in Kelowna. A friend and longtime client of mine, Paul Artkin @kelownakaratejka , was nominated for Male Athlete of the Year🏆✨ He has competed at the highest level in Canada for many years, earning 8 national medals and representing Canada internationally. I’ve known Paul for 8 years now (😳). He come my massage for his preparation and also recovery for the competition and daily training. It’s been amazing to be part of his journey! and I’ve also learned so much about the sport along the way. He’s not only a dedicated athlete, but also an incredible coach at @kelownakaratejka ! Now, he’s putting his energy into growing karate in Kelowna! I am so lucky to be able to see his big moment last night! Congratulations again Paul👏✨

Kids Summer Camp Registration is now open to the public!!!

July 6-10th. (Mon-Fri.) Bring a friend👍

Limited spots available.🙂

Astounding performance from our athletes at the Kelowna Karate Championship 2026!!! 👍🥋
To see how much all our athletes have improved in such a short time, Very proud.👌

Congratulation’s to our new Grand Champion of the competition Taiga A. ✨🏆✨

Winning:
Gold-1st place Kumite🥇
Gold-1st place Kihon🥇
Silver-2nd place Kata🥈

Kelowna Karate /West Kelowna Karate total
medal count:
38- Gold medals 🥇
42- Silver medals🥈
35- Bronze medals 🥉

Big thank you to all our officials, coaches, and volunteers who did set up, take down, organize, or helped the day of the competition. 🙏🏻

8 hours till the KELOWNA KARATE CHAMPIONSHIPS starts!!!!!!! 🥋🥇🥈🥉🏆

Great experience for our members with our guest Haru from Tokyo, Japan.🇯🇵🥋

Thank you to Sensei Sharp and Sensei Sal for the introduction and bringing Haru to our dojo.

Jam packed Kumite clinic taught by Sensei Sharp at our West Kelowna dojo.🥋🤩

Efficiency of movement, maximum weight transition within stance development while maintaining straight body line.

Kumite combination timing drills.

Karate / Anti-bully Awareness program for Hudson Road Elementary School.🥋📚🍎

All 340 kids this week showed so much spirit👍
Really rewarding to hear back from the parents on how it has positively impacted there children.🙏🏻

Kelowna Karate Championships
Saturday May 2nd 2026
Kelowna, B.C.

Please contact to receive information on how to register.👍

Students had a great first week of class for 2026.
Cardio was key with reviewing our dojo’s focus of improvement.

Wonderful to hear from all our students karate goals for themselves this year.
Always so fortunate to be in a room with every person wanting to make themselves better then the day before. 👌🥋