New Items In Our Online Store

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Looking for unique gift ideas or just want to show your love of shotokan karate?  Look no further than our online store.  New items just posted including water bottles, iPad cases, Macbook cases and other cool merchandise.  Our universal logo has the shotokan tiger and reads Way Of Life Shotokan Karate-Do.  For many practioners, karate is a "way of life" and therefore our logo can be proudly worn by all.

All products can be customized with your own design or placed on different priced/sized merchandise on zazzle.com.  Just click on "customize it" when you are viewing one of our products and add your own personal touch.

Shotokan Myths Book Review

If you are new to our blog let me fist start by saying welcome, and we hope that you continue to visit our site for updates and opinions.  I normally do not write articles on "how-to's" as there are many karate websites and YouTube videos that do a good job of this already.  In an effort to diversify our topics I am writing my first book review on an excellent book I recently read entitled Shotokan Myths by Kousaku Yokota Sensei.

New Edition Of The Shotokan Way

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The January edition of The Shotokan Way is available for review.  This month's edition features two in-depth interviews with Toshiaki Namiki and Hitoshi Kasuya, an article on thinking differently about kata and its' applications entitled "Be An Artist & Think".  I was particularly taken with the Namiki and Kasuya interviews and their take on incorporating the budo spirit into training.

Please check out the latest edition and we will continue to provide you with links and resources from some of the best online shotokan resources that we have found.