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Upcoming Spring Clinic and Black Belt Test

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 26th, 2017

This is just another preview of our upcoming spring clinic and black belt test. The clinics have been open and â€œeconomicalâ€ to all related and local Shotokan and traditional karate students who just want to train with other like-minded, mostly green belt and up, but we open the classes up to all ranks who want to challenge themselves with a more advanced enrichment trainingÂ experience. Rick Brewer and Carl Hartter are cofounders of the Central States Shotokan that started in the 1980s originally.

The instructors you could expect to learn from are all black belts with 30-50 years of training and teaching experience. A prime example is Carl Hartter who is a senior 7th Dan, who to name aÂ few, has directed the Central Illinois Karate Association, the ISU Karate club, The Illinois Wesleyan University club and accredited programs and now is Chief Instructor â€œEmeritusâ€ and director for Central Illinois Shotokan Karate in the Bloomington area. Together, he and Sensei Brewer have cheerfully met many challenges resulting in a vigorous natural growth of our regional Central Illinois Shotokan and Central States programs. They also originally served Sensei Randall Hassellâ€™s American Shotokan Karate Alliance (ASKA), where we were originally Board and Shihankai members before Sensei Hassell passed away. Sensei Hartter once won 1st place in Kumite at one of the first AJKA national tournaments in Riverside CA. and the following year won 2nd in Kumite in the same tournament. Sensei Hartter and Sensei Brewer have worked together to build dojos in universities, high schools, community centers, and the like for 50 years, in order to create excellent training environments for thousands of students.

Senseis Carl Hartter and Rick Brewer worked on many events to host, and in some cases, became friends with numerous famous instructors over the years like Osamu Ozawa, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Shojiro Sugiyama, Stan Schmidt, Randall Hassell, and the like. Those experiences afforded priceless learning opportunities for our students. If they were accused of trying to give karate students no-frills, hardcore, old-fashioned Shotokan karate, they would proudly plead â€œGuilty!â€

Other 6th Dan and Shihankai instructors teaching at our clinics (and who are Dan Test judges as well) are Elayne Hartter, Ted Quinn, Elston Flowers, James Hartman, and Chris Travers, JimÂ Stahly, Michael Busha, Ed Chandler, Kevin Oedewaldt, and Mike McCabe.

So, sometime this April, TBA, please think about joining us all in some good training!

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New Facebook Pages

Posted by admin in Dojo News, Pekin Area, Preview, Uncategorized on May 31st, 2017

Central Illinois Shotokan Karate is now on Facebook!
We’ll be posting articles and pictures here, as well as information about our classes and upcoming events.
https://www.facebook.com/ciskarate/

We also have a Facebook group for the Central States Shotokan, which we share with our sister dojos in the Bloomington-Normal area.
This is a discussion group any member can post in.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/csskarate/

See you online!

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Gasshuku!

Posted by admin in Dojo News, Featured on February 4th, 2010

The annual gasshuku will be held in August.Â More information will be provided at the dojo.

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40 Years!

Posted by admin in Dojo News on February 4th, 2010

The Central Illinois Shotokan Karate Association recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with a great karate clinic! Students from around the area gathered at the IWU Shirk center for some good hard training. Sensei Elaine Hartter started the day off with a great basic class for the beginners, followed by Sensei Elston Flowers’ excellent (and rigorous) class on flowing techniques together. Sensei Jim Hartman was next with an really good session on kata and hip rotation that left even the black belts scratching their heads and wanting to know more. After lunch, Sensei Rick Brewer led an eye-opening workshop on sparring strategy for the advanced students. Then Sensei Carl Hartter wrapped it all up with an excellent sparring session of his own that got us all thinking (and some of us on the gym floor). It was a lot of fun, and we thank and appreciate everyone who was able to attend to help us celebrate our 40th anniversary!

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April Seminars

Posted by admin in Dojo News on April 12th, 2008

On Saturday, April 12 members of the American Shotokan Karate Alliance converged at the ASKA Headquarters dojo in St. Peters, MO for our semi-annual instructor training seminar and black belt examination.

Instructor trainees were provided the opportunity to train with Sensei Chuck Kerrigan, Sensei Carl Harter, Sensei Rick Brewer, and Sensei Merlin Taylor. In addition to these valuable training opportunities, a black belt test preparation clinic was provided by Sensei Randall Hassell and the members of the ASKA Yudansha Kai.

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