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Banff Kyokushin Karate

The Banff Kyokushin Karate Club started in August of 2001. The club practices all aspects of Kyokushin Karate with emphasis on realistic, full contact sparring. A trait that separates Kyokushin Karate from many others.

Anyone has the ability

Anyone has the ability to train in Kyokushin Karate. The nature of this discipline enables people from a wide variety of backgrounds, skill, and age levels to participate. Students should not compare their progress with others, rather they should always consider how they are...

What is Karate

Karate is a discipline through which practitioners may find clues to assist them in their own spiritual development and self exploration. It is also, importantly, a martial art, encompassing philosophical considerations of life and death, struggle and survival. It is a...

"The life of Karate is formal practice fighting, without which Karate is no more than a game for one person"

- Mas Oyama, Founder Kyokushin Karate

About Kyokushin

Kyokushin Karate is a hard style of karate, characterized by its realistic full-contact style of fighting, it’s emphasis on graceful power in technique and it’s use of tameshiwari (board breaking) in the development of spirit and character. >> Read More