We both train with the Karate Union of Great Britain (www.kugb.org) and I can assure anyone reading this that the way we practice shotokan is primaril...

We both train with the Karate Union of Great Britain (www.kugb.org) and I can assure anyone reading this that the way we practice shotokan is primarily kata-based and certainly not a sport style of karate. Shotokan, when practiced properly, is an exceedingly powerful form of karate, concentrating on physical kime as the source of its power.

We do participate in competition, but this is optional and considered as a sideline to the main focus on pure karate training. Our chief instructors are second to none (read about Frank Brennan and Andy Sherry on the site) and we take karate seriously as a fighting art, the way Master Funakoshi intended. I don’t know where the author of this site got his ideas about shotokan, but it certainly wasn’t from the KUGB.

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