Our Training
Check out our training sessions for Juniors, Seniors, and Black and Brown Belts at the Benoni Dojo. Click the links below to watch.
Our Training Sessions
Junior Class
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 17h15 – 18h00 (Benoni)
Senior Class
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 18h00 – 19h15 (Benoni)
Kiai in Karate
In Karate, kiai is a powerful shout that accompanies an attack, symbolizing focus and enthusiasm. The term combines two Japanese words: ki (spirit or energy) and ai (emphasis).
A kiai serves multiple purposes:
- Surprising the opponent
- Intimidating effectively
- Expressing self-confidence
- Celebrating victory
True kiai comes from the diaphragm, not the throat, and can even be performed silently, embodying inner energy and control.
What is Karate?
Karate offers more than just self-defense—it enhances your overall health and well-being. It’s a discipline, a fitness regimen, and a way of life. Karate helps you build practical self-defense skills, improve physical fitness, and sharpen mental focus. It also instills values like integrity, respect, and personal growth through self-discipline and self-awareness. Embrace the Karate lifestyle today! About Karate
“Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly it will soon start to cool.” – Bruce Lee
Karate is more than just a martial art—it’s a way of life! Through training, Karate instills discipline, boosts confidence, enhances physical fitness, and fosters mental resilience. Karate also equips you with essential self-defence skills. Step onto the floor and discover the life-changing benefits of Karate!
New World Shotokan Karate
Our instructors are accomplished, high-ranking black belts who take their teaching seriously, especially towards children, combining a comprehensive education in well-established, orthodox karate practice and philosophy with modern sports-orientated competition karate.
Traditional karate is about effective self-defence under all conditions. When we refer to traditional karate, we mean more than just kicks, punches and blocks. Shotokan’s founder Gichin Funakoshi emphasized that a fight can end up on the ground, for which you need skills other than kicking, punching and blocking.