Shinkō Karate-Kai

Monday evening, we dove into how to make our Karate more explosive. Tonight we will work on refining some of these elements, and also revisit "Sen" as it pertains to timing. Hope to see you there!

Some days it's a big class, and some days it's tiny. With grads and other end of school year events happening this week, we still came to train and worked through the Green to Purple Belt syllabus this evening. These two boys also asked if we could do a beep test (why do they so enjoy that torture?) and both set a personal best. We'll do it again in the fall and see how much their fitness improves.

Don't forget we're closed on Canada Day, so hope to see you next week!

Our summer schedule is now in effect, Monday and Wednesday evenings, 6:30pm out of St Mary Anglican Church on Roblin at Haney. Visitors and guests welcome!

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A very weird day began with snow, school bus delays in the city, and school closures in the rural areas. 511 indicated highways were covered in snow. But by 6pm, there was hardly a trace of the earlier snowfall in Charleswood, and we carried on with karate class as usual. We are missing our adults due to the latest cold/flu bug, and our out of towners, so it was a rare "kids only" class this evening. You wouldn't have known it to watch them. They worked hard on yoko-geri keage, uraken uchi, enpi uchi and shuto uke combination drills inspired by Heian 2 & 4. And not one of them said "can we play a game?" Great effort tonight kids!

REMINDER: RWP School is closed on Friday April 10, so there will be no karate class this Friday. Classes resume on Monday at our normal time.

We love spring break, but it has a downside. With schools closed this week we don't have access to our gym. Thank you to LaRoyce Sensei and Kildonan Karate for hosting a few of us who just couldn't bear a whole week off from training. She delivered a great class on the 10 points of body connection. These young fellas did us proud tonight, worked hard and hopefully made some new friends.

Shinkō Kai wishes you a happy St. Patrick's day! If you're feeling bloated and gross after too much green beer, come sweat it out with us tomorrow evening!

We were up early to hit the road at 7am for the 3.5 hour drive to Russell Manitoba this morning for the 10th anniversary seminar at Inglis/Russell Karate Club. Three of us from Shinkō Karate Kai proudly represented Winnipeg.

This was Callum's first seminar road trip with us, and it was great to have him along!

Huge thank you to Bruce Hutton Sensei for hosting us! We had a great day (as always) and enjoyed meeting up with many of our karate friends from Brandon and Inglis/Russell area.

We're looking forward to attending the annual Tri-dojo Seminar on the weekend of January 23-25. Members wishing to attend, please connect with Jackie Lee to register.

2026 Tri-Dojo Seminar Winter Seminar | 3 days, 3 dojos | with Scott Middleton

Classes resume tonight at 6:30pm, River West Park School.

We hope you've had a nice break over the holiday season and are ready to get back into your training groove.

What are your training goals for 2026?

Look what arrived in the mail today. Come to class on Jan 5, 2026 to find out how you can get one (hint: they are not for sale, they can only be earned), and to see the first one awarded to a deserving individual.