Instructors: Sensei Michelle Gay, Sensei Maria Van Dessel

Our Style: World Kanreikai Karate (WWK)

Currently we offer regular group classes in World Kanreikai Karate (WWK) for adults, teens and children, and private individualized instruction. World Kanreikai Karate (WWK) is traditional Japanese full contact karate taught with an emphasis on good body mechanics and breath control. Each class is a mixture of kicking and punching techniques, stances, kata, sparring drills, body conditioning, dojo etiquette and Japanese vocabulary in which instructors pay particular attention to each individual's potential. World Kanreikai Karate (WWK) has affiliate schools in the United States, Canada, Israel, Russia and Poland.

Sometimes when I get to roll with Professor, the experience is nothing short of mind blowing.  He does what he does, slowly, methodically, relaxed, laughing.  But the positions are exotic to my white belt student mind.  Position is a terribly inadequate word, implying that what he does is understandable in a quantifiable, component set of static placements.  No, the movements are in a realm of movement I don't think in yet.  When he rolls like this I am a grain of sand with an ocean floating around me.  When he moves on to another student I sit there on the mat, perfectly uninjured, but my mind has been blown.  I am waking up from a dream world: I was there, participating, but deep down completely helpless.  What the heck just happened to me?