Kitchener Waterloo Meibukan Karate Dojo

Enrolment for new students is ongoing; please email Kao-Sensei for more information at kao@kwkarate.ca. to the Kitchener-Waterloo Meibukan Karate Dojo, it is an educational institution teaching traditional Okinawan Meibukan Gojyu-Ryu Karate-do. I trust the training you have under taken or am considering will be both exciting and rewarding, as you and/or your child embrace Karate-do- “the way of karate”. Our teaching style at the dojo is based on this Chinese proverb: "Tell me I will forget, show me I will remember, involve me and I will understand". At our dojo, instruction is provided in the traditional art of karate, which is viewed as “a way of life”, as well as a method of real life self-defence. This specific style named “Go-Jyu” translates as “Go” meaning hard and “Jyu” meaning soft. Go-Jyu-Ryu is one of the first three styles of karate formally recognized as such. It was the first to be officially named. This style of Karate emphasizes the importance of personal development thru self discipline, honour, integrity, hard work and self defence in a non-competitive, non-sport environment, as opposed to the competitive styles which have proliferated North America. We teach not how to fight but how not to lose.