West Los Angeles Karate School

After over a year of no Kumite training with a partner, Saturday’s training was a joy. Since we are all fully vaccinated and training outside in beautiful SoCal weather in an idyllic park, we were able to practice Kumite drills with a partner to start getting our distancing and timing skills back. It was invigorating! I hope everyone is looking forward to more Kumite, Kihon and Kata next Saturday. Osu!

Training outside has been great. Have a good Memorial day everyone!

We have finally decided on new t-shirts. Black softstyle shirt with our logo on front along with Japanese Kanji that reads "Karate-Do" On the back we have our logo again floating with bigger letters around it. Please click on the link below and let us know sizes and quantities you are interested in so we can go ahead and have them printed. https://wlakarate.org/wlak-t-shirt-order-page/

Another great training day at Crestwood Hills Park. Finally able to practice Kumite with all of us fully vaccinated. Looking forward to our next training on Saturday at 10.

We now have classes again on our calendar! Check it out. ( https://wlakarate.org/classes-pictures/ ) Saturday classes are now held at Crestwood Hills Park at 10:00 am until we can go into our Dojo again (Light workout clothes and light shoes recommended as well as sunblock and plenty of water). mask and social distancing required- ... Extra free class is on ZOOM every Wednesday at 9:00 am Good time to work on your own stuff and ask questions if you have any.

Happy new year to all Wlak members and all Karatekas around the world.

Good idea for training with limited space at home, practice the beginnings of the kata you know. Here is Sensei Alan performing the beginning of Bassai Dai #WLAK #Westlosangeleskarate #shotokan #shotokankarate #karate #kata #bassaidai #hometraining

Few highlights from our Karate Zoom sessions #karate #shotokan #shotokankarate #homepractice #martialarts #WLAK #westlosangeleskarate #hometraining #zoomtraining

Good clean Kumite points

Few highlights from Zoom class 2020/05/30 #karate #shotokan #shotokankarate #homepractice #martialarts #WLAK #westlosangeleskarate #hometraining #zoomtraining

Sensei David Heldman lead last Saturday's class along with Sensei Alan Weil. More people are joining in on the Zoom training and it is working pretty well for us. So far we had participants from London, Dallas and Mexico City join us. #wlak #westlosangeleskarate #shotokan #shotokankarate #hometraining #selftraining #covid19training #hometraining

Another excellent online training. We are planning on training every Wednesday and Saturday at 10am. #wlak #westlosangeleskarate #shotokan #shotokankarate #hometraining #selftraining #covid19training

Online training went really well this morning. Good attendance and great instruction and workout lead by Sensei Alan. #wlak #westlosangeleskarate #shotokan #shotokankarate #hometraining #selftraining #covid19training

Lei Feng sent us couple of pictures of her training at home in Dallas. We can make this work! #selftraining #hometraining #karate #shotokan #shotokankarate #wlak #westlosangeleskarate #karateinla

Here is Joseph selftraining the final steps in Unsu and performing the most difficult jump nicely! #selftraining #hometraining #karate #shotokon #shotokankarate #wlak #westlosangeleskarate #karateinla #unsu

You know you should be training at home :) Who else?

World champion Sandra Sanchez home training. Amazing and inspiring. We are all doing home training, right?

Here is Sensei Alan Weil Delivering his TEDx Talk at UCLA. The subject is Focus in the Martial Arts. #karate #shotokan #martialarts #focus #westlosangeleskarate #tedtalk #ucla

In light of the growing concern over the health hazard posed by Covid-19, classes are suspended for the next couple of weeks or until we have more clarity on the situation. Keep checking in here and look for announcement in you e-mail inbox for when classes will resume.

Last Saturday several students took a belt exam, ranging from 8th kyu all the way to Ni-Dan. We are proud to announce that everyone passed their required grade. Congratulations to the following karatekas: Raphael Phillips 8th kyu Michael Doyle 8B kyu Jonathan Rogers 6th kyu... Behnam Arya 6B kyu Lei Feng 1st kyu Naveed Mahboobian Nidan George Malacalza Nidan https://wlakarate.org/blog/

Good old school kumite

Every class starts with Mokuso #westlosangeleskarate #shotokan #karate #wlakarate #selfdefense