Shotokan karate - Shotokan

Welcome to Alfa karate club

Welcome to the website for Alfa Shotokan Karate Club. We are dedicated to teaching traditional Shotokan Karate to the very highest standard. We are proud to be affiliated to Japan Karate Association England association. Club instructor has over fifteen years experience, is CRB checked, fully insured and holds a coaching licence. We are based in Chafford Hundred,Thurrock in Essex.
Everyone is welcome from the age of five. Karate can be practised by children, women and men. We encourage beginners to the correct way and they will receive training relevant to their ability.
Just come along to your first FREE session and start enjoying the benefits of improved health, strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, co-ordination, concentration and self confidence... Alfa Shotokan Karate Club is a friendly club with good social activities.

“Being strong and powerful does not mean having more strength than the other, but being able to lift the weaker one up to your own heights. " (R.Tagore)

Karate
Karate is a martial art that has its origins in Okinawa, one
of the Ryuykyu Islands located south of Japan.

Shotokan
Shotokan is the most widely practised style of karate in world. Shotokan was founded by Gichin Funakoshi
(1868-1957) in Tokyo in 1938.

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Shotokan

Shotokan is the most widely practised style of karate in world. Shotokan was founded by Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957) in Tokyo in 1938. Funakoshi is considered to be the founder of modern karate. Born in Okinawa, he began to study karate with Yasutsune Azato, one of Okinawa's greatest experts in the art. In 1921 Funakoshi first introduced Karate to Tokyo. In 1936, at nearly 70 years of age, he opened his own training hall. The dojo was called Shotokan after the pen name used by Funakoshi to sign poems written in his youth. Shotokan Karate is the fastest and most dynamic form of karate and is characterized by powerful linear techniques and deep strong stances.
G. Funakoshi the first to systemize karate actions, to enrich the arsenal of Shotokan style with new feet blows and technique of close combat, to develop the rules for sport competitions.
The emblem of Shotokan style is a red sun in a circle with a white half-moon.The symbol of the style is a tiger with raised right paw. The qualities of this animal like speed, power, raction, flexibility and dexterity describe the fighters of Shotokan style.

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Albert Gustis tel. 07739897917, e-mail info@alfa-karate.co.uk