Karate is a marvellous sport and from its practice, one will gain stamina, agility, suppleness, increased vitality, self-confidence and self control.  However, unlike other sports, karate techniques act upon and stimulate the many vital points of the body and thereby promote health to the internal organs in the process, in a similar way that acupuncture or Shiatsu (finger massage) would.

It is a common perception that karate is an aggressive and violent sport but the reality is far from that.  Karate can in fact change a person's character for the better in that it can enhance the lives of so many people, from the shy and vulnerable student who blossoms into a confident, relaxed and happy individual, to the more strong willed and out spoken individual who slowly gets in touch with their deeper side and gradually changes into a more compassionate, thoughtful person.  All this can be achieved simply through the training and the "inner battle" that karate creates in students.  Practitioners of karate agree that in their everyday lives, they have become more patient, contented and healthy.

Basic Training (Kihon); is designed to cultivate fast, powerful and dynamic body movement; power being produced by the speed of a technique and is therefore equally effective for all types of people, be they large or small (e.g. a bullet is approximately 1 inch long and weighs a few ounces but is incredibly powerful by virtue of it's speed).

Sparring (Kumite); makes use of all the attack and defence techniques mastered during basic training and can be broken down into various categories, ranging from 5-step programmed sparring to free-style sparring (karate equivalent of boxing) via increasingly more complex, instinctive and reflex orientated forms of sparring.