Salt Lake City Shotokan Karate

Salt Lake City Dojo Exchange Practice
with
Liny Chan (godan) and Joel Nitikman (godan)
from
Canada Shotokan

Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May 2026

Practices: Saturday 10am & 2pm, Sunday 10am
Nomikai (social): Saturday 6pm

Liny started practicing Shotokan karate in 1992. She started leading at the Burnaby dojo in 1996. Ohshima Sensei promoted Liny to godan in 2018, the first female in Canada to achieve that rank (and one of only 10 in the world under Ohshima Sensei). Liny has competed in many tournaments. In 2001 she entered the open tournament at Nisei Week and was named Best Competitor by Ohshima Sensei. She has led several special trainings and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Canada Shotokan Karate Society. Liny helps lead the annual women's practice at the Shotokan Ohshima Dojo.

Joel started practicing Shotokan karate in 1985. He was the instructor at the University of British Columbia dojo from 2000. In 2010 Joel started up the Creekside dojo in Vancouver, BC and continues to lead there today. Joel has competed at many tournaments in Canada and around the world. He was a member of the winning Canadian team in 1996 at the Nisei Week tournament and has acted as a referee in many tournaments. Joel was promoted to godan in Vancouver in 2022 at the 50th anniversary of Canada Shotokan. Joel has led several special trainings and has been the Regional Manager for Canada Shotokan West since 2000.

For more information contact Leon Chodos [email protected] 801 859 7696
or Alun Thomas [email protected] 801 580 4767

Salt Lake City Dojo with some of our past, present and future of our group!

The Salt Lake City dojo welcomed the New Year by giving 2025 oizuki. We had a great turn out and everyone gave a strong practice. Thanks to Kent and Marty for helping to figure out a good counting system. The dojo is already starting strong. Here's to an exciting new year!

Tomorrow the dojo will punch in the New Year with 2025 oizuki at Liberty Park! Happy New Year from the Salt Lake City dojo! 🎉🥳🎉

A few weeks ago the dojo got together to do our kyu testing. We had a really successful test and many congratulations were earned!

I'm slow posting this, but 4 of us went to train this summer at the 2024 Summer West Special training. For one of us, it was their first special training and they did great! Congratulations to Ciara for completing her first one and to everyone else for a great experience!

We had some old friends come back to practice tonight!

Presentation of the black belt to new shodan, Leon

Some of the SLC dojo was able to go to Twin Falls, Idaho, to practice with John Teramoto, SKA’s Shihan. Thank you so much, Jesse Clark and the Twin Falls dojo for hosting!

We've been having some good practices with Twin Falls Shotokan Karate and others. Keep an eye out for more Zoom practices. Hopefully there will be more planned soon.