Dorset Karate & Self Defence - DKSD

Dorset Karate & Self Defence - DKSD Learn Traditional Shotokan Karate with our world champion female sensei and her national champion son!
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Master practical self-defense and have fun in every class 🥋

Affiliated and licensed with the Traditional Shotokan Karate Association (TSKA).

🥋 Want to Feel Younger, Stronger, and Healthier for Life?Just look at Sensei Marites — strong, flexible, and full of ene...
03/09/2026

🥋 Want to Feel Younger, Stronger, and Healthier for Life?
Just look at Sensei Marites — strong, flexible, and full of energy. She’s been training since 1997, started at age 25, and nearly three decades later, she’s still in peak physical condition. No shortcuts. No gimmicks. Just Karate. 💥

💡 While other sports can wear you down — busted knees, concussions, and burnout — Karate builds you up. It’s the most sustainable martial art you can train in. No head trauma. No joint destruction. Just a lifetime of powerful movement, sharp focus, and mental clarity.

✨ Whether you’re 15 or 50, it’s never too late to start your journey. If you’re looking for a training system that supports your body and mind for the long run — Karate is the smart choice.

🧘‍♂️💪 Come try a class. See for yourself why Karate is the healthiest path to self mastery.

🔥 Your future self will thank you.

Congratulations to our DKSD champions - one gold and two silvers won by our students at the TSKA residential course and ...
18/06/2026

Congratulations to our DKSD champions - one gold and two silvers won by our students at the TSKA residential course and competition last week! A fantastic result after a great course, with students and leading Traditional Shotokan senseis from all over Great Britain and Ireland in attendance 🥋
Big thanks to TSKA for arranging another oss-some event! 🙌🙌

25/04/2026

Sensei Marites demonstrates Kanku-Sho Kata 🥋
If you are looking to build your fitness, balance, explosive strength and let off some stress, come try your first lesson with us for free at our classes in Upwey and Crossways!

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Everyone’s hard work has paid off, congratulations students of DKSD!
28/03/2026

Everyone’s hard work has paid off, congratulations students of DKSD!

25/02/2026

A day of self defence drills and good vibes 🥋☀️

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Wishing Sensei Chris a very happy birthday and hope you have great birthday! 🎁 🎂🎉
15/02/2026

Wishing Sensei Chris a very happy birthday and hope you have great birthday! 🎁 🎂🎉

Less than a week to go! ⏳🥋
01/02/2026

Less than a week to go! ⏳🥋

29/01/2026

Sensei Marites (5th Dan) demonstrates a kicking drill - can you name all of the kicks used? 🥋

28/12/2025

Thanks to Sensei Chris’s time spent studying martial arts in Japan and his background, at DKSD we can offer original and effective self defence applications for our students.

All too often we see “karate vs karate” bunkai (defence applications) that doesn’t adequately prepare students for the variety of threats out there. These self defence applications of kata can appear awkward and staged, like a scene from a martial arts movie.

In its original incarnation however Karate was designed to condition its practitioners against armed, and both trained and untrained attackers (to be honest the more that we study the joint locks and escapes, the more it seems that Karate was used by Okinawan outlaws to resist arrest from the Japanese authorities!!).

In the video shown above, Sensei Chris challenges the common application of block-strike-strike against a punch that is taught at most Karate schools, and instead shows how it is more effective as a defence and disarm against someone armed with a stick / polearm. This turns a clunky application into something actually useful for our students to train 👊👊

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