Please see instructor for details. This tournament is PRE-REGISTRATION ONLY and our list of competitors has already been decided. Please contact Keeling Sensei if you have a child interested in watching or if you are a black belt interested in judging at this event. Keeling Sensei is the Chief Referee/Judge at this tournament.

Our next bi-monthly Instructors' Class is this coming Saturday, March 23rd.  All Shotokan black-belt holders are welcome to attend. The focus on these sessions is making us better instructors. There will be a mix of workout time and discussion.

Channel 7 broadcast live from outside our dojo as our kids' class did 700 kicks to raise money for 2 charities, including one for Newtown families affected by the recent tragedy there. 

Please note that we just added a second charity option for this year's annual punch&kick-a-thon event.

The United Way of Western Connecticut has set up a fund to help families who lost loved ones at the recent school massacre in Newtown.

(side-note: SVSK's Chief Instructor, Jon Keeling, grew up in Newtown, a quiet, usually very peaceful community)

For more information, please see here:
http://www.jkasv.com/special-events/kickathon2012

All levels welcome. We will review at least 27 kata in a single class, 8:00-10:00am on Saturday, January 5.

For more info: http://www.jkasv.com/special-events/kickathon2012

http://redwoodcity.award-program-2012a.net/PDBQ-DN6U-G6UU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JKA of Silicon Valley Receives 2012 Best of Redwood City Award

Redwood City Award Program Honors the Achievement

REDWOOD CITY November 8, 2012 -- JKA of Silicon Valley has been selected for the 2012 Best of Redwood City Award in the Martial Arts Activities category by the Redwood City Award Program.

Each year, the Redwood City Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Redwood City area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2012 Redwood City Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Redwood City Award Program and data provided by third parties.

Ubl Sensei will soon be back to teach more seminars at our dojo in Redwood City. Ubl Sensei is considered by many to be among the best instructors of Shotokan to have ever lived. He was a very close personal student of both Nakayama Sensei and Nishiyama Sensei and was the first resident of the Hoitsugan Dojo, Nakayama Sensei's personal dojo in Tokyo.

Seminar schedule is as follows:
Friday, Nov 30, 7:00-8:00pm: all levels, teens & adults only   
8:00-9:00pm: brown & black belts only, teens & adults only
Saturday, Dec 1, 9:00-10:00am: all levels, all ages (kata focus)
10:00-11:00am: brown & black belts only, all ages (kata focus)
Saturday, Dec 1, 1:00-1:45pm: all levels, adults only (kumite focus)
1:45-2:30pm: brown & black belts only, adults only (kumite focus)
Sunday, Dec 2, 10:00-10:45am: all levels, adults only
10:45-11:30am: brown & black belts only, adults only
***Sunday seminars are at De Anza College***

Fees:
$30 for 1 session
$55 for 2 sessions
$75 for 3 sessions
$90 for 4 sessions
$100 for 5 sessions
$110 for 6 sessions
$120 for 7 sessions
$130 for 8 sessions

*student discount: $5 off for 1-2 sessions; $10 off if 3+ sessions.
*WTKO members: $5 off for 1-3 sessions $10 off for 4+ sessions.

Seminars with WTKO Chief Instructor Amos (Richard) Sensei will take place each evening October 15-18:
10/15 7:30-9:00pm @ De Anza College
10/16 6:30-8:30pm @ De Anza College
10/17 7:30-9:00pm @ De Anza College
10/18 6:30-8:00pm @ SVSK in Redwood City
10/18 8:00pm - dan exam

For more information, please email jon@jkasv.com

Silicon Valley Shotokan Karate will be holding a demonstration at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple this Sunday @ 2:00pm at their annual Obon Festival.