Resource

Dojos in CT, MA and NY

Please note that this is not meant to be a comprehensive list.

Japan Karate Association Shotokan Karate-Do International

• JKA SKDI Website
• UConn JKA Karate Club
• JKA of Montville
• Karate Spirit
• JKA Boston
• JKA Revere
• Columbia University JKA

Kata

The 26 Shotokan katas are available for online viewing and as diagrams.

Links

• Japan Karate Association (JKA)
• New York City JKA Dojo
• Shotokan Karate Magazine
• General martial arts info - Martial Arts FAQ
• Martial arts web links compiled by Danny Abramovitch

• Basic Shotokan JKA-Vol1 This is a great video for all levels to review

• You can view an instructor’s technical manual, tournament rules and regulations and a series of videos concerning judging here. You can also download the former as pdfs directly:

  • Technical manual for instructors
  • Tournament rules and regulations

Books

These are the definitive, must-have books for referencing JKA kata study (at a reasonable price):

• Karate-Do Kata Vol.1 & Vol.2 by Japan Karate Association
• The Best Karate series by Masatoshi Nakayama

Some other suggested karate educational books that are the best for the JKA style of karate are:

• Fundamentals of Karate-Do (English and Japanese Edition by Masataka Mori
• Dynamic Karate by Masatoshi Nakayama
• Karate-Do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi
• Perfecting Kumite by Masahiko Tanaka
• Dictionary of Shotokan Karate Vol. 4