Very often, one begins karate for very different reasons: to learn how to defend oneself, to improve its physical condition… But with the wire of the meetings, the regular practice of karate continues as an enthralling research which reveals with the practitioner of the physical and psychic possibilities unsuspected. For this reason, it brings a real pleasure and a personal enrichment some.
Karate-C Shotokai is an martial art accessible at the same time to the children and the adults. Constituted of simple and natural gestures which are the key of an effective protection in the event of aggression, our karate offers a great richness of exercises where each one finds its account there:
Concretely, our method stresses the stability of the positions, the fluidity of displacement, the harmony of the gesture, the mental concentration, the control of space and the rhythm. The practitioner is sensitized with energies which traverse its body and the means of channeling them. He learns how to manage his stress, to control his emotions, to evacuate his muscular and mental tensions and finally to exceed his limits. The fruits of the practice are the physical wellbeing (flexibility, breath, endurance) and it self-control (breathing, mental concentration, relaxation). Our practice falls under the duration. It requires perseverance, confidence and humility. We conceive karate like an art and not like a sport, this is why our practice is not directed towards the competition.
Our club has been, for more than 30 years, under the technical direction of Harada Master. Mitsusuke Harada practised karate with prestigious Masters, whose Gichin Funakoshi and Yoshitaka, the son of Funakoshi, and was the personal pupil of Egami Master with which it worked until 1956. In 1955, it accepted from Funakoshi its 5th daN and was encouraged by him to propagate karate. Thus it created, in Great Britain where it resides, an organization intended to spread its teaching: the K.D.S Karate-C-Shotokai.
All our instructors take part regularly in and levelling advanced training courses in Belgium, France and Great Britain, in particular.
