The Okinawan Karate - Do Academy Website
About Our School
Okinawan Karate-Do Academy has been the home of traditional karate since 1993. We hope you enjoy our web site and stop by and visit us if you are in the area. This site is designed to give you information about our facility, our style of martial arts, our staff, and provide you with information on how to contact us as well.
Why Study Martial Arts
Martial
Arts is
a practice that develops: Character, humility,
gratitude, charity, confidence, self esteem, self control,
determination, patience, temperance, and a sense of obligation to pass
on what is learned. No other physical discipline offers so much.
Spiritual organizations and religions strive to impart these qualities
on their members and students as well, but the art of Karate also
develops and enhances physical abilities that would take a multitude of
sports to develop. Students improve balance, coordination , muscle
tone, cardio-vascular conditioning, timing, rhythm, hand-eye
coordination, and flexibility. Complex
neural pathways are developed through the study of Karate that also
give students an advantage in every other physical activity. 
All
that,
and self defense as well.
Martial Arts is a practice that develops: Character, humility,
gratitude, charity, confidence, self esteem, self control,
determination, patience, temperance, and a sense of obligation to pass
on what is learned.
No
other physical discipline offers so much.
Spiritual organizations and religions strive to impart these qualities
on their members and students as well, but the art of Karate also
develops and enhances physical abilities that would take a multitude of
sports to develop. Students improve balance, coordination, muscle
tone,cardio-vascular conditioning, timing, rhythm, hand-eye
coordination, and flexibility. Complex neural pathways are developed
through the study of Karate that also give students an advantage in
every other physical activity. All that, and self defense as well.
Boxing and wrestling may provide self defense and conditioning, but
they don't stress humility, respect, and gratitude. Soccer and
basketball stress agility and teamwork, but will they develop and
desire to help someone in need? You definitely won't learn 
any
of this
lifting weights or running on a treadmill.
A martial artist may, at one time or another, be doing something
completely different with each hand while carrying out complex
combinations with his/her feet and maneuvering their body like a master
contortionist. Karate is, above all, an education in body mechanics,
and students find their abilities in other sports improves greatly
through this practice. Whether it is golf, soccer, tennis, or
gymnastics, understanding how to use the entire body to create force is
the core of all athletics endeavors, and nowhere is this going more
dramatically revealed than when learn the proper technique to throw a
punch or kick. Anyone can fight, but fighting efficiently is the
groundwork
on which martial arts is based. As student learn how to use the body
with this efficiency and understand the importance of self-control,
they have gained invaluable knowledge that can be applied to every
aspect of their lives. Karate is something that takes a lifetime to
master. It is a discipline that keeps teaching and developing
forever
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