Most parents aren't searching for karate. They're searching for confidence, structure, good role models and a community.
Kyokushin is a full-contact style, so we want you to know exactly what that means before you decide.
Beginners do not start with contact. Contact is introduced step by step, and never before a teenager is ready.
These are the outcomes our beginner course is designed to work toward.
Learning something hard in small steps, and seeing yourself improve week by week.
The same instructor, the same small group, and a clear plan for every lesson.
A small group where your teenager is known by name and the beginners move forward together.
A clear route from the first lesson into the regular class, with no surprises about where it leads.
Kumite is partner training. Your teenager chooses when to take each step, and won't be asked to take one before they're ready. Either partner can say "lighter" or "stop" at any time, and it's treated as normal.
Set attacks and responses with pads and mitts. Nobody is hitting anybody.
THE BEGINNER COURSE STARTS HERE
Body only, at an intensity both partners agree beforehand.
THE BEGINNER COURSE
Rounds with rules, supervision and protective gear. Beginners watch this by demonstration.
LATER
Regular class, for students who have chosen it. Competition is optional, and comes later.
LATER · THEIR CHOICE
It's your teenager's first class, and the first rung on the contact ladder, which involves no contact at all.
Four weekly lessons with the same instructor each week, in a small group of other beginners. Then two more lessons inside the regular class, so the group moves into the dojo together. Every lesson reviews the last one, adds one new idea, shows how it fits into kata and kumite, and puts it to use with a partner at the right step of the ladder.
No. The first lesson names the art plainly: this is full-contact karate, kumite is where it goes, and nobody does it that day. The beginner course covers steps one and two of the ladder only.
Yes. Anyone can say "lighter" or "stop" at any time, with any partner, and it's treated as normal.
No. First Contact is a short course, not a taster: four weekly lessons with the same instructor, then two inside the regular class.
Of course. Send us a message or an email and we'll reply personally. If you'd like to look around, we'll arrange a visit.
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7A/44 Hutton Street, Osborne Park WA 6017