Newton's Karate

04/07/2026

All classes are open this week. We had a bonus class Saturday at 9:00-10:30 and a special Pilates class Sunday at 4:00

03/23/2026

We are heading out of town next weekend for more advanced training!

03/14/2026

Do something good for yourself!

I am already committed to a training seminar in Columbia or I’d be there but if you can attend this, you’ll be glad you did.

Coming to the Boiling Springs Town Park...Pilates At the Park!

Bring your mat, towel or blanket and enjoy an afternoon of this low-impact, full-body exercise. Pilates has been shown to be suitable for all fitness levels.

02/26/2026

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“Even when you reach the age of seventy or eighty you must continue your research with a positive attitude, always thinking “not yet, not yet…”

Chosin Chibana (知花 朝信) died this day, Okinawan time, at 6:40 am, in 1969 at the age of 83. He was an early pioneer in the transition of karate from private study to public dojo. A natural leader, Chibana was hugely influential in organizing the karate communities in coming together and sharing their art abroad, especially after the War.

The following is from Miyahira Sensei regarding his teacher.

“Choshin Chibana was born June 5, 1885, in the Torihori district of Shuri. At the age of 15, Chibana placed himself under the tutelage of Anko Itosu, the preeminent Karate master of the day. For the next 13 years, until Itosu’s passing at the age of 85, Chibana remained a devoted pupil. He then practiced further austerities alone, until he finally opened his dojo in Torihori district at the age of 34. There and at his second dojo in Kumojo district of Naha City, he worked to teach the tenets of Karate.

After a narrow escape during the Battle of Okinawa, Chibana returned to Shuri from the Chinen Village and immediately began teaching again, first in the Gibo area. He taught then at 10 different sites in Yamakawa district of Shuri and Naha, eventually relocating his main dojo from Asato, then to Mihara. During this period from February 1954 to December 1958, he served as Karate Advisor and Senior Instructor for the Shuri Police Precinct. In May of 1956, the Okinawa Karate Federation was formed and he assumed office as its first President.

In August, 1964, in memory of the 50th anniversary of the death of his teacher Anko Itosu, Chibana Sensei erected a monument at the Itosu family tomb.

In 1960, the Okinawa Times newspaper awarded Chibana Sensei its first Award for Distinguished Public Service in Physical Education. In the spring of 1968, he was given the Fourth Degree of Merit Zuiho Decoration for survivors of the war. In 1966, he relocated to Tokyo's Cancer Center, where treatment allowed a brief reprieve which he used to train with his grandchildren. At the celebration in honor of his Zuiho Decoration, Chibana Sensei surprised and delighted the audience by dancing. However, he was incapacitated again before the end of the year, and on February 26, 1969, he passed away in Omaha Hospital at 6:40 in the morning.”

02/20/2026

Here’s something special. 🥋❤️

It is a great honor to bring this interview with Doug Perry, Hanshi for everyone to view and enjoy. Without this man, there would be no Jason Perry Sensei an...