Happy New Year! While our classes are on holiday, work continues as always and JKS Edinburgh are delighted to announce that this includes the confirmation of 3 guest instructors who will attend in 2018!       19th March – Matsue Sensei 11th June – Matikia Sensei 5th November – Arimoto Sensei      …

Congratulations to JKS Senior Instructors: Sensei Robert Steggles, Sensei Sarah Queen, Sensei Richard Steen, Sensei Henry Higgins, who were presented with their Long Service awards at the JKS Christmas Party this week! Also congratulations to Sensei Ronnie Forbes and Sensei Conrad Langer who couldn’t be there to collect their awards. Left to Right Sensei: Steen,…

Hello everyone, The fees for karate in the coming year are changing, most of these changes are small but to reflect this and provide a bit more clarity the full pricing structure has now been added to the website.   As always, a new year offers new opportunities and sensei Robert and JKS Edinburgh are…

Due to unforeseen circumstances Arimoto Sensei has unfortunately had to cancel his visit to Scotland in October. However, the beauty of the JKS is the number of world class instructors in our association.  On 9th October 2017 JKS Edinburgh will host one such instructor with Honbu Instructor Matsue who will teach two classes on the…

Hello all, July sees the start of our Summer Schedule Timetable with our classes beginning at 6:15pm – 7:10pm for kumite/fitness and 7:10pm – 8:00pm for our kata/basics class. All grades are welcome to these classes and they allow some of the more junior grades to see the higher grades in action (or at least,…

JKS Scotland is very proud to be able to host JKS Honbu Instructor Sensei Toyama who will be visiting Scotland 12th-26th June! JKS Edinburgh will be hosting Sensei Toyama for what is sure to be another fantastic course with an exceptionally talented Honbu instructor on Friday 23rd June! Further details to follow so stay tuned!  

Good afternoon, As we have been repeatedly telling everyone March sees the club moving to a new location after the 27th of Feb: Our new location will be: King’s Church, 104 Gilmour Place, EH3 9PL One Friday per month the Kings Church is unavailable due to an existing long running booking, on these dates the…

JKS Edinburgh are very proud to announce that Matsue Sensei will once again teach at our Dojo in 2017! Matsue Sensei will teach two courses over the course of the 31st March 2017: 1815 – 1925hrs – All Grades 1930-2030hrs – Brown/Dan Grades only Places are once again limited to 30, contact Sensei Robert Steggles…

Good evening,   Please see below the monthly fees for the first half of 2017, should you wish to pay monthly please contact Sensei Robert directly:   January – £67/adult, £59/kid (24 lessons) February – £67/adult, £59/kid (24 lessons) March – £75/adult, £66/kid (27 lessons) April – £49/adult, £40/kid (18 lessons) May – £57/adult, £47/kid (21 lessons)…

At the end of November 2016 Robert Sensei, along with others from JKS Scotland and around the world, traveled to Japan where the JKS International Seminar was due to take place.   Though Robert Sensei wasn’t able to stay for the entire trip, in typical fashion he set himself a challenge of attending all 3…