The Japan Karate Association Promotional Video

The JKA is the most authoritative and by far the largest karate organization in the world, the Keeper of Karate's Highest Tradition.

No other organizations approaches karate with greater intensity of purpose, or maintains such a large and dedicated professional staff of highly-trained, highly paid full-time instructors.

At the JKA, karate is not merely a sport, it's a martial art whose aim is the harmonizing of mind and body for balance, strengh, perseverance, patience - for total confidence and self-mastery.

learn karate at home Heian kata karate bunkai video

Kata bunkai sample video below. learning karate kata bunkai or applications, is an important part of shotokan karate kata. This video sample below, shows clips taken from the heian kata series. heian shodan,heian nidan,heian sandan,heian yondan,heian godan.

Karate Classes Online Promo

The martial arts have been around for thousands of years, used for fighting and health, depending where on the planet you live! People have less and less time, we are rush, rush, rushing around, so finding time to learn the martial arts is difficult, the video below gives an alternative to attending a karate dojo.

Learning Karate The karate Front Kick

Video clip taken from the Karate For Beginners video series. Access some free karate videos today!

Mae geri or front snap kick is one of the first karate moves a new karateka will practice when they first attend a karate class.

Hirokazu Kanazawa 10th Dan

Master Hirokazu Kanazawa 10th Dan is a true karate master and gentleman. To me Master Kanazawa is what the martial arts are all about. Do not get me wrong, the fighting side of the martial arts is important, but now I am getting older, I look to the old masters for guidance and many of them steer away from fighting and move towards the health side of karate.

Health is everything, and there is nothing better than karate classes for a healthy mind and body. Where I live it is very quiet, if I lived somewhere more dangerous, my days would definitely be spent practicing kumite, however old I was.

Below, the great master performs Bassai Dai beautifully!

Jion Karate Kata

The Jion kata below is the shotokan karate version of the kata. Jion is a very physical kata and is the second longest brown belt kata after Kanku Dai. Although the karate moves are mainly basic, there are some advanced techniques within the kata. If you are learning karate at home, jion is a good training kata.