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Empty Japanese dojo with wooden floors, shoji screens, practice swords, and a taiko drum

End of Season 2025/26

by GH

June 11th was our final class of the 2025/26 training season!

We will resume training in September for the 2026/27 training season, and look forward to seeing you all then after some much needed time off to rest and recuperate. Look for updates here later in August for dates of our first training session in September.

Congratulations to all of our students for training hard up until the end of this year. We hope you have a good summer off regular classes, and come back rested and ready to train with intensity and focus in the fall.

New Brown and Yellow Belts – Zach, Trey, and Bob
New Orange Belt – Owen
Congratulations Zach! Zach was the Winner of our first annual award – the “Sensei Robert Robinson Memorial ‘Spirit of Karate’ Award” – for exemplifying the persistence and consistent effort and attitude Sensei Robert encouraged in all of his students in the Art of Karate

Special thank you to Senpai Laurie, for his persistent support, guidance, and positive energy throughout the year – we couldn’t have done this without you!

Also thank you so much to Sensei Robert’s daughters, Dyllan and Chase, for their very generous donation to the High River Karate Club and Vulcan Tekka Karate Clubs from the Robert Robinson Memorial Team Roping event earlier this spring!

Good work this year, everyone – have a great summer!

Grading & Summer Holidays

by GH

Congratulations to our first group of students grading this year! You all worked very hard and have improved so much to reach this important milestone, and we look forward to watching you progress as yellow belts over the next year!

Summer Holidays / Important Dates & Updates

Last Class for 2025/26

We will be taking the last half of June off this year, in addition to our regular holiday of July and August. Our last class for the 2025/26 season will be Thursday, June 11th. We will be resuming classes in September – stay tuned for a return date later in August!

FEES for JUNE will be half price as a result of our schedule change – $30 per person for the month.

Karate Alberta Tournament Cancelled

The June Karate Alberta tournament has been cancelled for this year due to issues with volunteer capacity and venue availability. More info here.

Grading

We have several more students to grade this season, and will be busy over the next few classes doing this. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Final Grading and Summer Break

by GH

It was our final class of the 2023/2024 season this past Thursday, May 30th, and we are now on a well-deserved break from training for the summer.

Our tentative return to training date is Monday, September 9th, 2024; however, check back with us closer to September as we finalize the first class of our 2024/2025 season.

Congratulations to our 2 new Yellow belts, Jack and Stratton, and our 3 new Orange belts, Jaden, Mark, and Scarlet! It’s always great to see how far everyone has progressed when it’s time to complete grading for the next level – you all did amazing!

To every one of our students, your hard work and dedication this year show in improvements in so many ways. Keep training and we look forward to seeing you again in September!

Have a great summer!

Monday Night Grading

by GH

Congratulations to our three brand new Green belt! Ivy, Trey, and Zack all successfully completed their Green belt grading this week during our class on Monday night – well done everyone!

Our final training session of the season will be this Thursday, May 29th, 2024 as we take a well-deserved summer break.

Look out for another post following our last class and an update over the summer for timing on when our first class back in September will be!

Grading & Seiwa Kai Tournament

by GH

*UPDATED With April 14 Seiwa Kai Tournament Photos*

On April 4th, the following karate ka students successfully graded for their next belt level!

Zack – Green Belt

Alexis – Brown Belt

Ryan – Brown Belt (Vulcan Tekka Club)

Congratulations to all of you for your successful testing and hard work!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Seiwa Kai Karate Invitational Kata tournament last weekend! Everyone did really well competing against a large number of students (80+) from 4 different dojos and 2 different karate styles! More photos have been added below! Congratulations to Mark, who took home first place in his division, as well as the tournament championship trophy this year!

Summer Break!

by GH

Congratulations to our new orange and yellow belts!

During the final class of our 2022/2023 training season, 5 students were graded to the next belt level.

Thank you to Zach, Trey, Ivy and Nathan for your hard work and perseverance in getting your Orange belts! And well done Gabby for achieving your Yellow belt!

You all worked so hard this year to get to where you are now, and we look forward to seeing you progress when we come back this fall!

Fall 2023 training resumes Monday, September 11th, 2023 at 7PM at the High River Fitness location.

Have an Awesome Summer Holiday!

Congratulations and Happy Holidays!

by GH
Sensei Robert, Zack, JoAnna, Senpai Travis, Senpai Gillian at the High River Fitness location on December 22.

Congratulations to Zack and JoAnna for successfully grading during our final training session for 2022!

JoAnna demonstrated a high degree of competency and attained the rank of green belt, while Zack also showed a clear focus on effort and technique in graduating from yellow to orange belt. Well done to you both!

We are now on break for the holidays, returning to training on Monday, January 9, 2023. Enjoy the season!

Grading and Last Class before Summer!

by GH
Sensei Robert with our new Yellow Belts!
Senpai Gillian, Ivy, Sensei Robert, & Nathan

Congratulations to Ivy and Nathan for reaching the rank of Yellow Belt! These two worked incredibly hard for their first color belt, with grading on our final class of the year, May 26, 2022 and we look forward to seeing what you’re capable of when we resume training in September!

Have a wonderful summer everyone and we’ll see you back in September! Check out our Facebook page for an announcement on start date TBD.

shodan grading

by GH

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Travis for successfully completing his Shodan (First Degree Black Belt) testing at the Vulcan Tekka Karate Club on October 21, 2021.

Travis has been training with the High River and Vulcan Tekka Karate Clubs for the last 5 years, and has made amazing progress over this time.

Well done Travis, and we look forward to continuing to learn and train with you!

Travis with his new Black belt and Shodan certificate
Kim (Shodan), Sensei Robert, Travis (Shodan), Gillian (Shodan), Sensei Sue