We are based in our own private full time dojo (martial arts gym) in Carlisle. We accept new students into our classes at any time by appointment. Private and small group lessons are also available. If you are interested in these please contact us for details.

Our dojo is fully equipped with all the equipment needed for martial arts practice including; 132m2 matted area, striking pads, bags and mok jong (wooden dummy), training weapons (Rokushakubo, hanbo, tanto) and weight training equipment. We also have separate male and female toilet facilities and changing rooms along with lockers for our members.

The style we practice is a branch of the Hontai Yoshin Ryu-Takagi Ryu lineagewhich is renowned as a highly effective fighting method that survived the battlefields of feudal Japan and continues its development today and unlike many modern martial arts, it includes both empty handed and weapons strategies.

As a result of our increasingly violent modern society we believe that it is important to teach our students effective self defence techniques from the beginning stages of their training, and with this in mind our membership is also open to individuals our groups that are of good character. Although all students begin with kata training, we teach simple and effective self defence applications to the techniques from the beginning.

We have a common sense and very practical approach to self defence, with the goals of giving our students a hands on feel for technical application and a better general knowledge, and more importantly to develop their sense of situational awareness allowing the student to either preempt or avoid dangerous situations altogether.From a technically point of view, and as the students progress through the kyu grades it is expected that the skills developed through of kata training will reflect on their self defence techniques, and their understanding of self defence application will have a corresponding effect on the particular students kata and general ability level.

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