Current monthly Katana Karate membership is $10 per class, $0.00  registration fees and free uniform if you enroll for 6 months.

If you are already Thrive Fitness member, yes. If you are not, you will need to enroll into Thrive or Katana in order to obtain access to Thrive Fitness where Katana classes are held. If you are unsure, enroll Katana for one month only in order to watch classes and make up your decision.

Membership cost is only $10 per class. Minimum membership is one month and if you pay for six months in advance, you will receive free uniform. Additional group discounts are available in various percentages, depending on the size of the group.

Yes, karate uniforms are required. You can purchase your uniform elsewhere, providing that it’s traditional or tournament cut white karate uniform without any style marks or patches. You will then need to purchase our school patches (katana karate kanji). Or you can purchase uniform from us. Our uniforms come with white belts and set of katana karate kanji, printed on chest and the right leg areas. If you enroll for six months, you will receive free uniform.

Katana Karate stands for a karate school that teaches traditional shotokan Karate. This Karate does not differ very much from other traditional shotokan karate schools. However, there are classes for more experienced karate-ka’s, called advanced (shotokan) and finally True Katana Karate classes. True Katana Karate is not a sport discipline, like shotokan and other modern karate schools. Ultimately, True Katana Karate can take ones body and spirit to higher level.

If you are in training for sport kumite competition and you are looking for an experienced fighter to prepare you, you are welcome to join us. You will practice our “Advanced Shotokan” classes and your sports kumite will benefit.

We recommend that you visit and talk to chief instructor. His first teacher, sensei Taraku, is an excellent karate teacher with over 40 years of experience. Sensei Taraku starts every day by performing all shotokan katas. Mr. Taraku recently expressed enthusiasm about Katana Karate so we hope that we will be honored with his classes.

Katana Karate is a Martial Arts School. It is a school for beginners, a school for kids but also it is a Martial Arts Academy that teaches the most advanced techniques and philosophy. For example, our kids’ classes have many interesting and original games, designed to introduce kids into the world of modern sport and the “soft” side of Shotokan Karate. For adult beginners, we also have a basic program that consists of strictly traditional shotokan Karate, with basic introductions to ZeN, Yoga and so on. For advanced adults we have “advanced shotokan classes” that focus on complicated techniques and sport (tournaments) kumite. Finally, for the most advanced students, we have reserved classes that give our school the name: “True Katana Karate”: very sharp, very fast and very lethal martial art with an entire warrior philosophy behind it, therefore a separate and unique style.

Advanced yes, Katana no. Our advanced shotokan karate classes are traditional, similar to other shotokan schools, so they have ranks and katas. In addition to advanced shotokan karate, we have advanced classes that go beyond sports karate. “True Katana Karate” does not have belt ranks although one has to be at the level of black belt in shotokan or a similar style to qualify for True Katana Karate lessons. The reason for the absence of ranks is that True Katana Karate is not an art massively performed, so every practitioner knows exactly where he stands. Then, there is our philosophy that is different from sports karate. As for katas, we do have unique “forms”, but again, not similar to sports karate katas.

“True Katana” is not tai chi, pilates or yoga. There are no books or videos so your only way to “Katana” is to join our school and advance in Shotokan Karate.