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Our Dojo Gallery

Here are some pictures from our dojo of club members practicing their karate, achieving new grades and having lots of fun. As a club member you can add your own memories when you are logged into your account.

2024

Seven clients from Manaaki Ability Trust showing off the medals they won at our first tournament. They are standing outside in the Centre's garden. Everyone is smiling.

Medals at Manaaki

One very happy family showing off the medals they have won. Lots of smiles from the two children and adults.

One Happy Family

Participants all lined up waiting to bow-in at the start of the tournament. The shorter people are in the front row while taller people are in rows behind them.

Lining up at the start of Tournament

The judges and officials who made the tournament so successful. There are five people, two are wearing karate uniforms, the others are wearing tournament official polo shirts.

Our Tournament Officials

All the tournament medals

This is a picture of all the participants who took part in our very first karate tournament. There is a mix of adults and children. They are all wearing the medals they have just won. All of the children are in the front row with Sensei m, who is kneeling. The adults are starting behind. Everyone has big smiles in their faces.

Our First Karate Tournament

Group photo with our new yellow and green belt students. Lots of very happy smiling faces.

April 2024 Grading

The club's stand at Armageddon. There is the Rainbro banner to the left with the six book covers. In the middle is a television with a slideshow of dojo photos. To the right is the Kia Ora banner. The table is covered by our disability pride table cloth. On the table are the five Rainbro books and club flyers.

Armageddon 2024!

2023

A group photo Nakamoto Hanshi's dojo. There are 14 black belt instructors. The back row is standing. The front row is sitting on chairs with Nakamoto Hanshi sitting in the middle in his black uniform. Nakamoto Hanshi has over 90 years martial arts experience.

Group photo with Nakamoto Hanshi

Mitsuhiko Gushikawa Sensei, Takuma Higashi Kyoshi Sensei (taking photo), Thanasi Michael Balaphas Sensei and Stephen Sensei, sharing insights on how we can make karate accessible to people living with disability. The sensei are holding pictures of Stephen Sensei's students.

Meeting with Mitsuhiko Gushikawa Sensei

$Club members standing in a group wearing their new belts having just graded. There are 8 yellow belts, 1 orange belt and 2 green belts. There are 8 white belts who will grade next month.$

Celebrating new grades

Mum, dad and brother and sister all wearing their new blue belts and massive smiles.

Our awesome family of blues belts

Our Stand at Armageddon

One of our younger students taking advantage of our new sensory reset zone. Inside the blackout tent are some earmuffs, a gentle koala bear lamp and a little timer. All things to help you when things become too much.

Our new sensory reset zone

$20 students, some in karate uniforms others in comfy clothing standing at the end of the dojo. There are adults and children all enjoying their karate training.$

Our growing karate family

BOB next to our new Dojo Kun banner, which reads,
We pledge to
Be kind to each other
Have a positive attitude
Be respectful to everyone
Accept everyone's differences
Train to the best of our ability
Encourage each other
So that we can strive to improve through karate.

BOB admiring our new Dojo Kun banner

Our stand at What's Outside the Box

One of our instructors ready to start a whole day of weapons training with Bo in hand. Members from other clubs are also at the seminar.

Second Kobudo Seminar

Two orange belts students, a little girl and her mum.

Look my awesome mum

Two adult students with their new grades. The female is wearing an orange belt and the male student on her left is wearing a yellow belt.

Our new orange and yellow belts

2022

Iced Christmas cake

Head instructor promotes our club at a local Christmas market. He wearing a Santa hat and standing next to a table with some of the Rainbro books on display and the club banners behind him.

Christmas market at DIA

7 students wearing their new belts. 5 have graded to yellow belt and two to orange belt. There are 3 families. A mum and her two daughters. Another mum and daughter. And a dad and his daughter. The instructors are at each end of the line. Every one is very happy and smiling.

Last grading of 2022!

Our karate family. 16 students, mums, dads, children, and young adults. There are 9 mailed and 7 females some in karate uniforms and some in casual clothing.

End of another awesome class

Four families just finished training. Dad + daughter, dad + son, mum + daughter and another mum + daughter. All are awesome karateka.

Our karate families

Two new orange belts a dad and his son who is also an orange belt. And a little girl who is our youngest orange belt.

Grading to orange belt

Tiny female student looking very proud of new orange belt.

An awesome orange belt

A group picture of Sensei, Carter and Bob. Carter is an orange faced muppet like puppet with a blue nose and wears a hoodie. Bob is a life size punch training dummy.

The New Zoom Team

A yummy chocolate cake with the words, We are 4 written on the top in white icing.

A cake to celebrate our 4th birthday

2021

Chocolate Santas, bowls of chips and lollies on the counter. Two little girls in their princess party dresses eyeing the food, deciding what to have. Other students are in the background waiting their turn.

Special Christmas Class

We have a game we play in our dojo called The Ball Game if you get hit by the foam ball you have to stand in sumo stance until you are freed by someone going under your legs.

Some of the young students think Sensei makes a better play house than an instructor.

Sensei as a play house

A brother and sister wearing their new green belts and holding up there certificates of rank. Both have their orange belts over their left shoulder. The both have great big smiles.

Happiness is grading to green belt

Group photo of karate-ka, mainly black belts, after an evening of Kobudo training with Thanasi Sensei. There are 21 people, all ages and genders in two rows. The back row is standing and the front row is kneeling. They are all holding sai (a 3 pronged weapon).

Training with Thanasi Sensei

Over 100 competitors representing 12 karate clubs around Wellington. They all waiting for the Kapiti Karate Academy tournament to start.

First KKA Champs

Instructor representing club at first New Zealand multi-club you tournament. He is bowing before starting his kata.

Kata at Tournament.

$Two boys looking forward to going to training.$

Training soon

Mum, Dad and two children (blonde girl and brown haired boy) wearing their new orange belts. All looking very happy.

Full house of orange belts

Student holding her certificate of rank and wearing her new orange belt. She is laughing and very happy.

Happiness is a new orange belt

Our newest orange belt student wearing her new belt and holding up her certificate of rank. A big grin on her face.

Our newest orange belt

$Three students from the same family, sister, brother and Dad all grading to orange belt. Mum will be grading soon.$

Our family of orange belts

2020

DSport trying karate and enjoying a beautiful view over the Wellington Harbour.

Karate overlooking Wellington Harbour

DSport club members trying out karate at the Victoria University sports hall.

DSport try karate

Sister and brother wearing their new yellow belts. Head instructor is standing beside them with a big smile on his face.

Grading to Yellow Belt

Three new yellow belts, a boy and two girls. All are wearing their new belts and holding their certificates of rank. The have big smiles on their faces.

Yellow Belts and Smiles

Five students gaining their yellow belts. There are two families. A sister, brother and dad and a mum and her daughter. They all have big smiles on their faces.

Two Families of Yellow Belts.

Our latest yellow belt student standing next to Sensei. Sensei is kneeing down and has his arm around the boy. There are smiles all round.

An Awesome Yellow Belt

There are five young students standing in a row. There are 3 girls in the middle and two boys, one at each end of the line. The boy on the left is holding up his certificate of rank. He has just graded to yellow belt.

Grading to Yellow Belt with Friends

Instructor wearing full body armour being knocked backwards by a young female student. Her brother looks on, laughing with excitement while he waits for his turn.

Self Defence

2019

$Sensei is kneeling in front of a white belt student holding a board. The student is breaking the board in two by striking it with his fist.$

The joy of breaking boards

Students are standing in front of the club banner with their coats on ready to go home. One student is sitting in his wheelchair. There are two black belt instructors from another club who came to visit. One of the instructors is where one of our club polo shirts.

There are no limits in karate

2018

There are five students (2 girls and 3 boys) all wearing yellow belts. Sensei is standing next our newest yellow belt student, she his holding her grading certificate.

Our second grading

Six students wearing their new yellow belts and holding their grading certificates. Five students are standing (3 boys and 2 girls). Sensei is kneeling down with one student who is sitting on the floor.

Our very first grading

Students students striking head level as they move up the dojo in forward stance. Sensei is in front of them, but moving backwards.

Head level strikes in forward stance

Happy group of white belt students standing beside Sensei. There are three boys and one girl.

Smiles at the end of class

Sensei standing in front of the stage in the dojo with two students sitting either side of him on the stage.

Our first students

2016

A young student with a walking frame throwing his instructor at a tournament. Other competitors are sitting on the ground watching.

The picture that started the club