daigaku karate kai

Bristol Combat Karate is a true form of Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate - Hard Soft School of empty hand, having it's traditional roots and training methods while still evolving as a modern and effective fighting and self defence system. The university club is made up of a mixture of university students, ex-students and non-students with a broad mix of both men and women. Sensei Lewis also runs an adults club at the Parish Wharf leisure centre in Portishead. A new club has recently opened and will be run by Rob Curtis on Tuesdays at Martial Lifestyle in Westbury Park. See here for information on training times for all Bristol clubs. Combat Karate (Daigaku Karate Kai) is concerned with effective self defence techniques through basics, forms, drills, sparring, groundwork, weapons and supplementary exercises for combatants to reach their optimum fighting ability. Thai and European boxing, wrestling, throwing and weapons training have played a part in the evolution of this system, making it a very effective modern combative system. Combat Karate still holds true to the 13 traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu kata (forms) and their applications - bunkai, showing street defences which sadly has been lost by many martial art systems of today. The association Daigaku Karate Kai, is a relatively new and small association. It involves ourselves and a sister club in central London at the University of Westminster run by Sensei Gavin Mulholland. Click here to see the Daigaku Karate Kai Lineage from the founder of Goju Ryu Chojun Miyagi to Senseis Lewis and Mulholland.