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Christchurch City Shotokan Karatedo
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Tuesday & Thursday (Honbu Dojo at the CPIT Gym):
NEW BEGINNERS CLASS - 6pm to 7pm (Open to all new beginners. No prior experience is required. This class is very slow paced and properly introduces the foundational techniques of karate-do).INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED CLASS - 7pm to 8pm (Must recieve permission from the chief instructor to attend) - 7pm to 8pm.
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ADVANCED CLASS - 7:30pm to 8:30pm (Brown & Black Belts only or with permission).__________
There are other practices available, including the daily instructors class. For more information on these training sessions, or the general classes that are scheduled above, please contact the Chief instructor (Lyall Stone Sensei) at: 021-2042-373.
Lyall Stone Sensei (4th Dan) has trained for decades in the art of karate-do. Through the 1990's he was a senior member of the Japan Karate Association of Canterbury in Christchurch City(affiliated directly to the J.K.A through Shuseki-Shihan Tetsuhiko Asai). His strong backing in JKA Shotokan combined by his "hands on experience" as a security professional certainly form a vast gulf between his teaching and modern sports karate! In his own words he explains "Karate is not a game, it is a martial art of self-protection. Traditional Shotokan kihon, kata and kumite must collectively work together resulting in the ability to finish one's opponents, otherwise it is nothing more than a childish game. This was the bujutsu karate we learned from Asai Sensei and the other J.K.A instructors". Lyall Sensei at the helm of the Christchurch Shotokan Karate Club ensures that karate remains in it traditional form, as bujutsu (an effective MARTIAL ART).
"Unlike the other Shotokan clubs in Christchurch we don't bounce around trying to score points, do gymnastics, or just try to look nice doing kihon and kata. And we are not a babysitting club, we offer real true Shotokan karate, and we are the only one's who do so in the Canterbury region. The standards of Shotokan karate in Christchurch are terrible, so our club exists to provide Cantabrian's with the option of learning the real thing. Those who want to learn Shotokan properly will seek, find and be welcomed. OSS!" - Lyall Stone Sensei.
Pictures above: (1) Lyall Sensei performing Junro-sandan kata. (2) Demonstrating jodan yoko kekomi in a general class at the Christchurch Honbu Dojo at CPIT. (3) Chief Instructor Lyall Sensei countering resident international instructor Andre Bertel Sensei (6th Dan) with ura-nukite to the carotid artery during advanced practice. And (4) Lyall Sensei performing jiyu kumite with Matthew Body - 1st Dan (not pictured).