Fushin Ryu Karate Dojo Brown's Bay

Great dojo

Best karate dojo/style in New Zealand!

Excellent place for karate training

I was an elite member of the club for a long time, and I have a back-catalogue of moments at Fushin Ryu dating back about 12 years. With all this time spent here, I can very safely say that I cannot oversell the value of this place. Obviously there is the self-defense aspect - making people safer on the streets is a definite plus - but beyond that there is and incredibly valuable moral and philosophical knowledge here. You do not just learn karate here, on top of world-class teaching you learn how to simply be.This dojo, through years of hard work from the part of the teacher as well as the student, helped me through a lot of hard times, and instilled within me a subtle but strong confidence useful in so much of the adult working world. There was no reason for the head coach - Duane Monk - to care about my progress when I began, when I myself hated the thought of hard work; when I thought that it was natural for me to be worse than everyone else and so I shouldn't try at all. And yet Duane cared. He never gave up on me, and eventually, after I learnt the true meaning of the word sweat I found myself selected for 5 national teams by the time I'd grown big and strong.I really could go on and on, but I think that be tooting on the karate horn; I will just leave it at this. Fushin Ryu karate was my life for many years. It brought me to the pinnacle of adolescent human performance and yet kept me humble. And if it can do this for someone with dyspraxia (a motor coordination disease) it can do it for anyone. Hurry up and send your kids here.

Awesome

Excellent Dojo. I'd highly recommend this for kids, young or adults. The Sensei and all the rest of the staff" is very professional

THE BEST DOJO. EVER!

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Good place to learn Karate from an expert

Highly recommend