Instructors
Two instructors teach every class.
Owner and head instructor
I grew up in Okinawa and learned karate and kobudo there as a boy. I teach them the way they were taught to me: stance first, then the form, then the partner. I lead the adult, kobudo and family classes, and I sit down with every student before a belt test. I speak English, and Japanese when a student asks.
Senior student and instructor
Karmen teaches the children's and teen classes. She moved here with a posting, joined as an adult white belt and stayed. She keeps the warm-up moving and the line straight, and she is the first face most new families meet at the door.
Languages
Classes are taught in English. Japanese is used for the counting, the bows and the names of the forms.
English
Every class
Japanese
Isao Tengan, on request
Sample credentials.
Come to a class and meet them both.