Traditional Okinawan karate did not have any ranking system. There was no need for it because karate was a civilian self-protection system developed for fighting, not for bragging. Karate ...

BYU students practicing Shotokan karate will have the chance to advance in rank this week. The BYU Shotokan Club will hold its belt rank tests on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The Shotokan Club is the oldest ...

Sensei Dan Holloway, 8th Degree Black Belt and owner/instructor at Holloway’s Isshin-Ryu Karate School, promoted Robert Burton, 75, to the rank of 3rd Degree Black Belt. This entitles Burton to be ...

At only 11 years old, Jonah Thompson, of Dorr, has risen to the top of the Tang Soo Do Karate ranks to earn a black belt. For the last five years, Thompson has studied the art of Tang Soo Do, meeting ...

Ray Taylor has a room full of shiny martial-arts trophies, all of them won with one goal in mind - earning his black belt. Ray, 14, has been taking American karate classes at Spartanburg Martial Arts ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Morris Mack, who with wife Kara Mack has taught karate in Yakima since 1961, was recently promoted to the rank of judan (10th degree black belt), the highest recognized rank in ...

NORTH WILDWOOD – Hamer’s School of Karate has a unique way of celebrating its students. On Wednesday night, several students were bestowed new belts by owner and chief instructor of the school, Master ...

Clubs from Brainerd, Aitkin and Little Falls participated in a Central Minnesota Karate quarterly-rank examination at Charles Lindbergh School in Little Falls Feb. 26. Yellow Belt: Thomas Holt, Little ...