Kyoshinkan Karate

04/11/2024

11/05/2021

Jeff Agan is a member of Kyoshinkan and many of you have worked out with him. Wednesday his sensei passed away.
Hanshi TR Smith "Smitty" was a friend who trained with Hanshi Herndon in the Azores while they both served with the US Air Force.
Several times he came to Virginia to train at Hanshi Herndon's dojo and I had the pleasure to meet and train with him. And recently Hanshi Herndon and I went to his home for a visit and lunch.
Please keep the Smith family, Jeff Again and Hanshi Herndon in thoughts and prayers during this sad time. He will be missed.

03/20/2020

Jim Sermania thank you for this post.

PSA to Members and Students of Dojos – I urge you to reach out to your Dojo owner and pledge your support to them instead of canceling or pausing your memberships. You would be surprised how many dojo owners operate 1-2 months away from being bankrupt and still have to pay thousands in rent and expenses. Further, most insurance policies will not be covering business interruption caused by the virus. Dojo owners are rarely wealthy and chose this “business” because of their passion and love for martial arts and of helping others. If you want to have a dojo to go back to in the weeks or months to come, I strongly encourage you not to cancel your membership and leave your dojo to carry the weight alone. Chances are, the dojo owner is also struggling between doing what is safe for the community and keeping their dojo. Don’t leave them to be pressured into creating a public risk because they have no other choice but to shut down permanently.

12/29/2018

Better to be safe than sorry. An attorney advised us to post this. Good enough for me. The violation of privacy can be punished by law. NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, it will be tacitly understood that you are allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates. I HEREBY STATE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION.
Copy and re-post.
Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you've ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook's privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste

10/08/2018

Heads-up!! Almost every account is being cloned. Your picture and your name are used to create a new face book account (they don't need your password to do this this). They want your friends to add them to their Facebook account. Your friends will think that it's you and accept your request. From that point on they can write what they want under your name. I have NO plans to open a new account. Please DO NOT accept a 2nd friend request from "me". please forward to all your contacts

03/03/2018

Remember, this is the first Saturday of the month and there are no classes at the dojo today.

12/09/2017

Snow day today - Have fun!!!!!! No Class.