Shogokan Karate Clyde

All ready for Junior gradings tonight.

100 kids registered over three gradings.

More to come on Saturday for our higher belts, and Mighty Samurais on Thursday & Saturday.

When Senpai A***n and Mighty Samurai Jacob arrive in matching crocs ❤️❤️❤️

All ready for tonight's Junior gradings
Ganbette!!!

Merry Christmas to all my amazing families. Thank you for all your support throughout the year. I look forward to being back in the dojo in 2025

Congratulations to Senpai Yajat who after 4 hours, 12 minutes, 54 seconds graded to Shodan Ho (Black Belt). This has taken many years of hard work and commitment.

Also grading to Shodan Ho was Senpai Emma one of our instructors (also known as Millie’s mum).

Congratulations to both of you!

Sensei Darryl has some big news to share with you.

I'm really excited to announce that our school has a new name!

Shukokai Karate Dojos will now become Shogokan Karate Dojos.

Why the name change?

On my most recent trip to Japan, Ish*tobi Hanshi (my teacher) honoured me by naming our school. This is a tradition that dates back with many schools having been given their name by their teacher. In fact Hanshi's school, Hishokan name was given to him by the founder of our style Tani Sensei.

What does the name mean?

Hanshi takes great care and thinks deeply of how to name schools.
For our name, Shogokan, Hanshi has taken the Sho from his school name (Hishokan) and the kanji for Australia, Go and combined it with the kanji kan (school).

Combined it means, Spread your wings and fly high.

For our school to have a direct link to the name created by Tani Sensei is quite special.

Our new badge, kanji and logos.

Hanshi has graciously helped design our new badge (on a serviette at dinner one night) incorporating the wings from his clubs badge. In his words, we are Hishokan family we should have the wings.

As new designs are completed I will share them with you.
You'll see the photos of the badges below. The red, black and silver will be our standard club badge, the blue (Hishokan blue), black and silver will become our new black belt badges.

What will happen next?

Officially our new name takes effect immediately. However, many things will take quite sometime to change. So, you'll see both names within our dojos for quite a while.

Initially you will see new certificates, new badges, new stationery etc. Followed by the website and new merchandise.

I understand you might have questions, please feel free to reach out.

I hope that you are as excited about this great news as I am.
Thank you for your continued support.

Sensei Darryl Thornton
Head Instructor
Shogokan Karate Dojos

What a fantastic day!
The 2nd Annual SSU Victorian Championships were held yesterday in Dandenong.
Shukokai Karate Dojos was superbly represented with just short of 80 competitors, 1/3 of the 240 total competitors. 24 of those were from Clyde!
I was so proud to see so many students there, giving it their all.
Whether you won a medal or not you all should be extremely proud. It takes a lot of courage to step out of your comfort zone.
Thank you to all of the volunteers, both instructors and parents who worked tirelessly to make sure everything ran well and everyone had a fun experience.
Clyde students - I have around 70 photos to share that were taken by Sensei Caitlyn - I will post these in the Parents & Members page.

Last official day of gradings for us. Such a great effort. To my "senior" belts, so so happy with your performance.
Still another 5 people grading next week with the last official grading at Somerville on Wednesday. It has been a HUGE week.

A very spirited grading from our first group of Mighty Samurais Thursday night. Excellent grading 👏