Brooklin Wado-Kai Karate

08/09/2024

We are proud to announce our newest Sensei (1st Dan) Brad and Natasha. They did an incredible job at their grading and truly deserve their promotion to Black Belt.

06/20/2024

ATTENTION ALL BWKK KARATEKA

Due to the extremely warm temperature today class has been canceled for Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

Stay cool, stay hydrated and have a great weekend.

Sensei Mark

06/03/2024

On Thursday, Brookin Wado-Kai had another successful grading for one of our students. Owen was prepared, focused and displayed excellent effort during his grading, and was promoted to Orange Belt.

Congratulations Owen!

05/28/2024

Congratulations to Jack and Aaven for their promotion to Yellow belt. Both students did an excellent job during their grading and are very well-deserving of their new belts.

05/10/2024

Another great effort by Brooklin Wado-Kai students during their grading! Brandon & Xavier put in a great performance and successfully were promoted to their green and yellow belts tonight.

Great job guys!

04/29/2024

This past Thursday we had two of our students grade for their next belt levels, and we would like to congratulate Jarvis and Daniel for achieving their promotions to 5th KYU and 4th KYU respectively.

Great job and you should be proud of your achievement in your continuing study of karate.

04/19/2024

Congratulations to Denis on his successful grading to 1st KYU (Brown Belt). A great achievment Denis, and a well deserved belt promotion.

04/04/2024

This describes my Sensei Ron Sheyan who is sorely missed.

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THE SENSEI

Every martial arts student needs to read this statement from Fumio Demura Sensei:

"The person you refer to as 'Sensei' is in that position for a valid reason. It seems today I hear a lot of former students or ex-black belts disrespecting their Sensei for a myriad of reasons. In order to better help you understand why a Sensei deserves, or let me put it a better way, demands your respect let me lay it out for you.

The Sensei is the one who has dedicated their life to the art they teach you. You will never have as many years of dedication in because you came after them.

The Sensei is the one who spent many days and nights opening their dojo, cleaning it, making it better…for YOU.
The Sensei is the one who has made sacrifices you will never understand just so you have a place to train, to learn and gain in your art.

The Sensei is the one who, often at great costs, has given up their free time, their family time…time they could be out doing many other things just so you can learn and train.

The Sensei is the one who has invested thousands of dollars in their own training just to learn how to teach you properly.

The Sensei is the one who has often broken bones, but still showed up to teach class. Torqued muscles, tendons and had strains but still showed up to teach class. Had a migraine, was sick, had a bad day…but still showed up to teach class. All these things are excuses why you miss class.

The Sensei often goes without so that the dojo and students will be taken care of. This means they give up having nice things at times, vacations, going out to dinner, hanging out with friends and family…all so you can learn Karate.

The Sensei has spent more time in a dojo than most of you that train with them have been alive.

The Sensei is the one who is always there for your training…
The Sensei quite often sees a need and fills a need for their students. They see that poor kid who has little of anything and needs sparring gear and they just go ahead and get it for them. They see the student who is struggling to come up with funds to buy their own weapons for Kobudo and just buys extras so they can participate. They see their adult students losing their jobs and says “Don’t worry about paying til you’re caught up”. This is the role the Sensei plays and it demands respect.

I can sit here and think of a thousand more reasons why you should never, ever disrespect your Sensei too…but, in all honesty, I shouldn’t have to. I shouldn’t have had to even write this blog…but, then again, people live in a shallow world these days. Perhaps we should step out of it, be bigger and better, and then the world will change.

Respect your Sensei, take care of your Sensei, honor your Sensei…because, one day, your Sensei will no longer be around."

- Fumio Demura

03/14/2024

Congratulations to Jackson, Isabella and Marcus on their recent grading and successful promotion to their new belt levels. Your energy and effort was excellent and your promotions well deserved.

03/05/2024

A little pictoral representation of the lessons around mwashi geri from class tonight.

02/23/2024

On Saturday, February 17th, 2024 Owen particpated in the Seikikai Martial Arts Winter Karate tournament and represented Brooklin Wado-Kai Karate proudly by placing 3rd in Kumite and 1st in Kata.

You did a great job highlighting your skills, your talent and our Club.

Congratulations!

02/06/2024

Tonight we had another successful grading, and would like to congratulate Izzy, Aashni and Nate for a job well done.

You have taken another great step on your journey through karate, you should be very proud of yourselves.

Thank you to Sensei Steve and Andy and Sempai Brad and Natasha for helping to run the grading.