WORLD BUDO KARATE ASSOCIATION
Pan American
Winter Camp
- INSTRUCTORS COURSE -
February 20-22, 2026
Los Angeles
With Sensei Avi Rokah
To register:
Step 1: Pay through PayPal to Avirokah1@gmail.com (seminar fee $175)
Step 2: Click the button below to fill out the registration form
Learn timeless principles of technique & combat as taught by Sensei Nishiyama
(Techniques are finite principles are infinite)
Bring technique & Kumite to the highest level
Understand posture – breathing – maximizing ground reaction – body dynamics & muscles contraction/relaxation – Kime (power delivery at impact) – transition – footwork.
Understand timing & distance, reading opponent & strategy, the art of hit without getting hit
Must be Shodan, black belt & higher.
Dan exam, instructor certification
There will be a judging refresher course with Giedrius Dranevicius (WTKU judging committee)
USA BUDO KARATE
2026 Western Regional
Karate
Championship
Sun. March 15, 2026
Redondo Beach, CA 90027
Register by:
March 1st, 2026
US Budo Karate
National Championship
2026
May 2 - 3, 2026
Saint Louis
Registration Deadline: April 17th, 2026
Feel the positive energy.
USA BUDO KARATE
Who we are?
We are a non-political style organization and the National Governing Body for Budo Karate in the United States.
* Member of World Budo Karate Association.
Why US Budo Karate?
We founded World Budo Karate Association with Sensei Nishiyama’s passionate students from all over the world in order to preserve and develop karate based on Budo principles, according to the teachings of Master Nishiyama.
We believe that by working together, we can further progress budo karate in 2 ways:
*Maintaining high standards of technique and continue to improve the level of our instructors, and the understanding of Budo karate principles.
*Promoting Budo karate, and making the knowledge widely available and easily accessible for future generations.
US budo karate is not limited to Sensei Nishiyama students or any individual karate style. Because the principles of Budo Karate are universal, they apply to any karate style and even sport; therefore we are open to accepting members from any system that are interested in Budo Karate.
How we develop and promote Budo Karate?
We develop Budo Karate and promote it globally by adhering to the highest standards of instructors and teaching, leveraging live seminars, online videos, written materials, and international & national competitions.
We centralize rank examinations and provide instructor certifications.
We believe that understanding the theories of Budo karate will make training more deliberate and effective.
We are created out of Passion and Love to Karate.
Our purpose is to develop and transmit karate with irs depth and limitless potentials to the next generations.
OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of USA Budo Karate association is to provide a platform for the preservation and development of Budo Karate, based on the principles taught
by Sensei Hidetaka Nishiyama.
Hidetaka Nishiyama left behind a profound Karate legacy. His ability to combine traditional teachings with a modern understanding exercise science and psychology, lead to the development of a systematic and comprehensive set of training principles, which he personally felt were his greatest work.
Today, these masterful principles have ensured that Shotokan Karate will continue to grow, develop, and flourish, while still maintaining it’s deep roots, strong traditions, and time-tested techniques.
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Everyone who is interested in studying and developing Budo Karate,
including students of any style, Traditional or Sport, is welcome to Join us.
We offer no politics, only Knowledge, positive energy and friendship.
WBKA will provide you many benefits such as membership in the international organization, instructor’s training privilege, Budo karate seminar at your site conducted by our instructors, Dan grade ratification possibility for all styles and organizations, remote (online) teaching available, videos, international competitions.
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World Budo karate Association was found by top students
of Sensei Nishiyama from all over the world,
who studied with him for over 30 years.
"In Karate, through self defense techniques we develop the awareness and sensitivity to the person facing us, we learn to feel the danger and go around it."
Grand Master Hidetaka Nishiyama
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