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Enshin Karate

Enshin Karate is a practical system of empty-handed self-defense based on a strategy of circular movement allowing you to use your opponent’s power and momentum against him or her.  This strategy, called Sabaki, enables its practitioner to convert defense into offense.

Enshin stresses the development of flexibility, power, and speed, with emphasis on stretching, conditioning, and technique.  Training in Enshin Karate builds spiritual awareness, mental alertness, a sense of confidence, and provides resources for meeting the challenges encountered in life.

Sabaki Method

Enshin Karate is based on a system of self-defense called Sabaki, which uses circular movement to place you in the blind spot of your attacker.  This will also minimize the impact of the attack.  Using this blind spot positioning allows you to use your opponents power and momentum against them.  The Sabaki method, as practiced in Enshin Karate, was developed by Kancho Joko Ninomiya.  Enshin karate has become one of the fastest growing forms of self-defense in the world because men and women and children find the training fun and challenging.

Enshin Training

Every class in Enshin Karate begins with warm-ups and stretching, followed by a routine of basic kicks, punches, and blocks.  These basics are important to the veteran and novice alike.  For the duration of the class, these basic techniques are used in various combinations with arm guards, partners, katas, and Sabaki training.  The only competition in an Enshin dojo is within the student, to be the best he or she can be.  There are scheduled (optional) controlled sparring sessions, which all students are invited to attend.  An Enshin Karate dojo is dedicated to the traditional values of courtesy, respect, and challenge as a way to develop and improve oneself.

Kancho Joko Ninomiya

Enshin karate was developed by Kancho Joko Ninomiya, winner of the 1978 All-Japan Karate Championship and Director of the Sabaki Challenge.  In an effort to bring authentic fighting karate to the United States, Ninomiya established the Sabaki Challenge, which has become this country’s premier karate tournament.  Because he felt that his training for the All-Japan helped him grow stronger both physically and mentally, Ninomiya wants to offer this opportunity to other young martial artists.  Today Kancho Ninomiya is the Master of Enshin Karate and its growing network of schools throughout the United States and the world.  He feels a strong personal commitment to maintaining a close organization and offering his logical, practical system of karate to anyone who is interested in what it has to offer.

Sensei Andrew Budd