Poneke Kyokushin Dojo

09/09/2026

Pōneke dojo at the Auckland 2026 Kancho Matsui seminar.

Thank you to the Shihans and volunteers who hosted us for an awesome weekend of training up in Auckland, we’re very fortunate to have a whole weekend with Kancho Matsui and Shihan Gorai who delivered a great technical seminar.

Congratulations to all our Grading candidates for their hard work and consisting training! Osu

31/08/2026

Saturday Kata class and Fitness class will be cancelled this weekend due to the Kancho Seminar in Auckland. All the best to our candidates grading! Monday class next week is on as usual.

18/08/2026

Congratulations Sunny and Max! Black belts have arrived from Japan and were presented on Monday. Awesome to see you both in your official belts, osu!

02/08/2026

Coming up this term at Pōneke Dojo!

Our Karate Games are back for another year on Saturday 19th of September.

Open to all of our students 15 years and younger, as well as our other Wellington local IKO dojos. Time to brush up on those jump kicks!

26/07/2026

See you tonight for our fundraiser screening and Q&A (with director Jason Stutter and guests) of Tongan Ninja! We're fundraising to support our students and instructors attending seminar and gradings in Auckland, as well as travel for tournament later in the year. There's a couple of tickets still available, but selling out quick! If you're keen to come grab one now:

The greatest ever martial arts film made in our beautiful city of Wellington, Tongan Ninja, showing for one night only with a Q&A fundraiser screening!

02/07/2026

Congratulations to our students who graded this week! All the hard work put in this term really showed at both our adult and junior gradings.

Great to see our adults already back in the dojo this week in their new belts, we look forward to seeing all the junior’s back as well after the school holidays.

21/06/2026

A few members of the Pōneke team at yesterday’s nationals!

21/06/2026

Congratulations to all of our competitors from Pōneke dojo at the 2026 New Zealand Nationals yesterday! As well as a huge thank you to our senpai, sensei and Shihan for their judging, coaching and support.

We had a great team of our juniors and adults with a few first timers stepping onto the mats. Pōneke dojo took home the UG-9th kyu adults kata second place, the 12-13y -40kg boys first place, the men’s novice master’s 80-90kg second place, the women’s elite open first place, the men’s elite 80-90kg first place, the men’s elite open weight first place and Yokozuna.

We’d like to acknowledge as well all of our parents and families, friends and other supporters who came along for a great day. Thank you for all your support of the dojo, your children and the other competitors. We couldn’t do it without our wider dojo whānau. Thank you as well to all the other dojos attending and Shihan Steve and Shihan Diane Takiwa and their amazing crew for running the tournament.

More photos to come once we’ve had some time to recoup after a long and exciting day!

01/06/2026

Adults training will be on tonight (King’s Birthday) as usual 6pm to 7:30pm, Osu

09/05/2026

Some pictures from Sunny and Max's Shinza on ANZAC weekend!