Kenpo Karate Brisbane

10/10/2026

**Congratulations to all our Kenpo Karate students!** 🥋

A successful grading day! A huge congratulations to all students who participated today. You should be very proud of your achievements.

🌟 **Special congratulations to Jessica and Chloe**, who achieved their **Junior Black Belts**, and to **Tom**, who successfully graded to **Adult 1st Brown Belt**. An outstanding achievement and a reflection of your commitment and perseverance!

The journey to a Kenpo Karate Black Belt is a long and challenging one, but it is also incredibly rewarding. It takes discipline, patience, dedication and a willingness to continually learn and improve.

Well done to everyone who graded today! Keep training hard, believe in yourselves and enjoy the journey. 👊🥋

09/10/2026

KENPO GRADING – 10 OCTOBER 2026 8.30 am–12 pm

A special day as two juniors grade to Black Belt and senior student Tom grades to Adult 1st Brown Belt!

PROGRAM 8.30–9.15 am: • All juniors: Yellow to Green Belt requirements • Teens/Adults: Yellow to Orange Belt requirements

9.15–9.30 am: Junior belt presentations (Yellow–Green only)

9.30–11.45 am: Advanced Juniors, Teens and Adults complete their grading

11.45 am–12 pm: Belt presentations

All Juniors, Teens and Adults who aren't grading are encouraged to participate too. Please join us to support the team!

Contact me with any questions. Jo

23/09/2026

New blog post

22/09/2026

We have classes throughout the school holidays. All welcome to trial for 2 weeks free.

Thursdays from 5.30 pm for juniors up to age 12 and teens/adults from 7.30 pm.

Saturdays from 8.30 am for juniors and teens/adults from 10.30 am.

18/08/2026

New blog post - why cross-training is valuable in strengthening your base.

Every martial art has blind spots, and pretending otherwise only limits our development. For me, Kenpo is the base from which I climb: cross-training exposes the gaps, other arts provide new ways to address them, and the goal is not to abandon the path but to keep finding ways further up the mountai...

15/08/2026

Beginner Kenpo Karate classes this week focused on kicks and self defence techniques. Finished class with break falls and forward rolls..

27/07/2026

Kenpo Karate is often described as a practical and intelligent martial art, but one of its greatest strengths is its ability to adapt. At its heart, Kenpo is not rigid or fixed. It is built on fluidity, movement, awareness and the understanding that no two situations are ever exactly the same.

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In life, as in self-defence, we rarely get to choose the circumstances we face. We may be caught off guard, placed under pressure, or required to respond quickly to something unexpected. Kenpo teaches us that effective action comes from learning how to adapt - to the environment, to the person in fr...

26/07/2026

New blog post - Why Does Kenpo Have So Many Techniques? - Part Two

In Part One, I looked at the conventional reasons why Kenpo contains 154 named self-defence techniques. The curriculum covers a broad range of attacks, and each technique teaches lessons that go well beyond the attack it begins with.

25/07/2026

Doing a martial art isn’t just about fighting, or self-defence. Sometimes it’s about the Art itself. We focussed on staff set today, not that we run the risk of getting into a staff fight, or even have a staff handy if we get attacked. Sometimes being about trying to get better in the Art is enough…