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.

I began my martial arts training when I was 18 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at a Tae  Kwon Do Dojang in a steamy basement of an old warehouse soon to be demolished. I was a slothful youth in a community where those who had  “athletic talent’ were encouraged and given resources.  Resources came from the blood sports-hockey mostly but football too. With small size and zero movement capacity I was soon weeded out.