Category: News

April 30, 2023 D.Hogg

Masatoshi Nakayama Sensei In this, our second post we look briefly on the life of Nakayama Masatoshi sensei (1913-1987). Nakayama sensei was an exceptional martial artist and ground-breaking thinker, who…

April 23, 2023 D.Hogg

Tetsuhiko Asai Sensei In this, the first of three posts, we look to briefly explore the linage of Shotokan Karate, working from our association, the JKS, back in time to…

February 14, 2023 D.Hogg

What Is Shotokan? ✍️ ** MINI BLOG ** ✍️ Our style of karate 🥋 is known as Shotokan, which is a traditional Japanese martial art developed in the early 20th century…

February 22, 2020 D.Hogg

CHANGES TO OUR CALENDAR MARCH – APRIL    Due to building work at our usual venue, we’re having to displace a number of our classes between 23rd March to 17th…

December 17, 2019 D.Hogg

After another fantastic year we have a number of updates and announcements moving forward to 2020. The first of which is that our 2020 calendar running up to June is now…

January 13, 2019 D.Hogg

As per our Facebook page and our announcements in the class our classes are displaced for the next few weeks! The calendar has been updated, so if in doubt please…

November 18, 2018 D.Hogg

As 2018 draws to an end we thought it would be nice to look back over what has been a fantastic year for JKS Edinburgh. In the last couple of…

August 1, 2018 D.Hogg

Hello all, The calendar page of the website has now been updated to include the remaining dates until the end of the year for the main classes and the next…

June 6, 2018 D.Hogg

Hello everyone, Just to clarify the Tigers Classes will be running on a “Pay As You Go” system on the below dates in July:   Friday 6th July Friday 13th…

February 25, 2018 D.Hogg

JKS Edinburgh has been featured on the Waterman’s guide to independent clubs & gyms in Edinburgh!   The guide, which can be accessed here, aims to highlight those clubs/businesses it…