Arimas Traditional Karate

03/26/2022

10/10/2019

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” -Bruce Lee

09/05/2019

“Spirit first, technique second.” -Master Gichin Funakoshi

09/03/2019

“Karate begins and ends with courtesy.” -Master Gichin Funakoshi

09/01/2019

August 2019 marks fifteen years of Sensei Leo Arimas teaching Shotokan Karate in the city of Soledad. In August 2004, Sensei Leo closed his dojo in Monterey to take over the dojo in Soledad his son had to leave to attend California State University, Sacramento. Photo: August 2004.

06/16/2019

In this picture,i was demonstrating one part of kata empi. Thank you!

04/13/2019

03/27/2019

We practiceShotokan Karate .

03/09/2019

Sensei Leo Arimas visited Shuri Castle in Okinawa, Japan where (according to Karate history), was the origin of empty hand self-defense (Karate). Gichin Funakoshi named it Shotokan In the earlier years of the 1920s.

11/29/2018

Arimas Traditional Karate banquet in Soledad