Welcome to Makoto JKA
Sensei (Instructor): Hakim Ishmael started doing various styles of karate in Guyana S.A. at the age of 16. He moved to Canada in 1982 and started researching dojo's in Montreal. He was very lucky to have come across the Japan Karate Association (JKA). Sensei Hakim had to reform his past karate styles to allow him to transition into the high standards of the JKA. He has participated in numerous JKA competitions and has grown to his present status of 3rd Dan Black belt through his hard work and diligence towards JKA Shotokan Karate.
JKA Shotokan Karate
The JKA is the most authoritative and by far the largest karate organization in the world, the Keeper of Karate's Highest Tradition. No other organization approaches karate with greater intensity of purpose, or maintains such a large and dedicated professional staff of highly-trained, highly paid full-time instructors. At the JKA, karate is not merely a sport, it's a martial art whose aim is the harmonizing of mind and body for balance, strengh, perseverance, patience - for total confidence and self-mastery.
Shotokan Karate History
It is believed that Shotokan's ancestor martial arts came to Okinawa a long time ago. From about the mid-fourteenth century, Okinawa started trading heavily with its other island and mainland neighbours. As a result of this contact with the outside inhabitants, it is assumed that their respective fighting styles were brought into Okinawa.
