Karate News

Daikaku Chodoin, 68, is the founder and president of the United World Karate Association, which combines all five iemoto with an estimated 50 million practitioners around the world.

You're supposed to be quiet in the library, but a karate exhibit could make the walls scream 'hi-yaa!' Through Aug.

Sensei Darryl Williams, right, demonstrates the correct technique for a hook kick on a student.

Potters Bar Karate & Kobudo recently held their second annual Karate Kids tournament.

Two US Marines kick and punch each other in a cloud of dust as their shaven-headed instructor bellows "Fight, fight, fight!" Under the blazing hot sun, they grapple in a ring drawn in the sand as their fellow soldiers shout encouragement.

PEOPLE of all ages and abilities from across the borough are being urged to take exercise this week by trying out a new sport.

Four participants representing the Alliance Neighborhood Center successfully placed in various events at the All American Youth Activities recently during the Young Champions Karate Quad State Tournament in Dayton.

VALE Karatea s Kloe Christoforato, despite having only celebrated her ninth birthday in May, is following in the footsteps of her hugely successful squad mates and already finding remarkable success.

Leah Lynch, 10, of Rome, Ohio, shows her skills in the girls advanced weapons competition at the 2009 Isshinryu World Karate Association Championships.

These days I am thinking of myself as G.I. Jane. I keep exercising and exercising and hoping for a long life.

By P. Vijian CHENNAI, June 21 -- Clients who demand sexual fantasies bordering on the inhumane, risk getting a karate kick from sex workers.

A local karate club based in Wetwang is celebrating another clean sweep by three of its students at a recent grading held by the British Karate Association in Manchester.

Scorned by society and ignored by the police, sex workers in the South Indian city of Chennai are learning karate to protect themselves against the beatings, robberies and rapes they say are part of a prostitute's daily life here.

Nearly 60 martial arts students from Mid-Michigan's MC Karate, Lakeville Tang Soo Do and Anderson Martial Arts are expected to participate in the "Kicks for Kids" kick-a-thon charity event at 10 a.m. at MC Karate, 4307 Davison Road, Burton, on June 20.

Kathy Reynolds of Elmore won the USA Elite Champions Cup Tournament in Pittsburgh on June 14 at the Pennsylvania Shotokan Club.

World famous karate expert 9th Dan Sensei Fumio Demura conducted two technical workshops for senior instructors of the Trinidad and Tobago Karate Federation on Saturday, which were described as a tremendous success.

"Earlier, I used to hesitate or feel uncomfortable in asking men who misbehaved with me in the bus.

BROTHERS Sensei Lee and Sempai Spencer Bennett fly to Japan on Wednesday, June 24 to represent Great Britain, Wales and The Rising Sun Kyokushin Karate Club at the World Full Contact All Japan Kyokushin Union Championships in Osaka.

Torrance Taylor had to pause when asked how long his brother Tiawan Howard, 12 years older, had been training him in martial arts.

Shorin Ryu Karate Academy will be hosting its annual summer camp July 22-24. All former students are welcome to attend.