On Saturday, December 20, 9:00am, a sankyu (3rd kyu, brown belt) examination will be held at the Columbia Neighborhood Center. You are welcome to come watch the examination and support the following dojo members tentatively scheduled to take the examination.

-Huy Nguyen
-Neda Haghighat
-Dominic Abucejo
-Michael Dries-Coons
-Tim Fairfield
-Khanh Bui
-Jeffrey Fairfield

This examination is somewhat of a milestone in that the dojo has not conducted a sankyu examination in about 10 years. This group of members could be the first new sankyu members since before 2000.

I hope you can join us on December 20.

SKIF will be celebrating Kanazawa Kancho's 77th birthday and SKIF's 30th anniversary in Tokyo, October 23-26, 2008. Please see the brief note below from General Headquarters.

If you are seriously interested in going (no firm commitment at this point), let me know. If we have at least 20 people, including family/friends, I can coordinate a group trip with Japan Air Lines. With JAL, we can each travel to Japan on different days, so you can add days before or after the SKIF events to best meet your individual travel needs/interests.

I know that this would be a big use of your precious vacation time. This is also a major karate event and celebration, the magnitude of which we may not experience again in our lives. I hope you can make the trip. 

~Sensei Jay

Please join us September 20th for the 11th annual Summer Gasshuku; a special four hour training session led by Sensei Jay Castellano and the Satsuma Dojo. This unique training opportunity benefits the Lowell Slater Richardson Foundation, a non-profit foundation that awards college grants to “at risk” students. All ranks, styles and levels are welcome to participate in what has become a favorite, locally famous event- don't miss it! Read More...

A Live Performance of Martial Arts Mastery To Benefit Earthquake Victims in Sichuan, China.

7:30 PM Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend

Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA

$20 general seating

More info, please go to --> http://tigerclawfoundation.org

Members and Friends of Satsuma Dojo,

Once again, Satsuma Dojo is very fortunate to be able to host Kanazawa Hirokazu Kancho, founder, president and chief instructor of Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation. On June 28-29, I invite you to join us as Kanazawa Kancho and his eldest son, Kanazawa Nobuaki Kancho, multiple-time world champion, offer seminars at the Columbia Neighborhood Center in Sunnyvale, CA.

Please see the attached flyer. If you have any questions or would like any additional information, feel free to contact me at 408-757-8073 or satsumadojo@yahoo.com.

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SKIF will be celebrating Kanazawa Kancho's 77th birthday and SKIF's 30th anniversary in Tokyo, October 23-25, 2008.

Please contact Sensei Jay by February 15th, if you plan on attending.
If we have at least 20 people, including family/friends, I can coordinate a group trip with Japan Air Lines. With JAL, we can each travel to Japan on different days, so you can add days before or after the SKIF events to best meet your individual travel needs/interests.

I know that this would be a big use of your precious vacation time. This is also a major karate event and celebration, the magnitude of which we may not experience again in our lives. I hope you can make the trip.  j

In early 1983, a delegation from Toyokawa, Japan, visited the city of Cupertino to present a gift of 200 cherry trees. The Cherry Blossom festival is an annual event celebrating the blossoming of the trees and the many friendships that have grown through the Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister City Program.

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Sensei Manabu Murakami, Director of the International Division of Shotokan Karate-do International Federation, will be teaching seminars at the CNC on Tuesday, January 22, and Sunday, January 27. Many of you already know that Murakami Sensei is a multiple-time World Champion and an extremely proficient technician. In my opinion, his techniques reflect Kanazawa Kancho's teaching more than anyone else's in the world. We're very fortunate to be able to host Murakami Sensei given SKIF's 120 member countries and 1000's of training locations, so I encourage everyone to attend his seminars. -j Read More...

After the class of Saturday, January 12, the Saturday classes at the Columbia Neighborhood Center in Sunnyvale will be changing to Sundays, up to and including Sunday, March 16. We will switch back to Saturdays on Saturday, March 22. You may recall this same schedule change last year to accommodate the CNC's youth basketball program. Read More...