Ethics & Values

How Karate Helps Children Build Self-Confidence

Karate is the ideal sport for children for building self-confidence, balance, coordination, discipline and social skills. Karate has the ability…

The Most Essential Ingredient

Of all the qualities required to become a successful martial artist, if one were to be placed above all others,…

Becoming a Black Belt

Whatever your perception of a black belt, try to forget about the title or the idea of ‘getting‘ a black…

Lessons that Have Helped Shape my Life: Sensei Peter Durrant

As children, we all wanted to do something special with our lives. For me, it was to play for Australia…

Karate: A Modern Philosophy

In writing or reading any literature about karate, what becomes immediately apparent is that karate is different things to different…

Karate Is Character In Action

Today, thousands of parents from around the world enroll their children in martial arts with an identical goal in mind;…

What Is Karate-Do?

While there have been countless films depicting martial arts, and reams of material produced to describe it, little has been…

Bushido: Codes for Improved Living

Moral standards should not just be something we read about in history books and as relevant today as they were…