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www.wvmadojo.com

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Grand Opening Rates

$90.00 pre-Karate Class a month

$100.00 a month, 3 days a week for All other Classes

$125.00 a month for Black Belt Club, 5 days a week

Grand Opening Special FREE GI (uniform) and

Private Lesson for the first 50 Students!

class schedule

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About Our Head Instructor: Sensei Dan Wakefield

Dan Wakefield has studied martial arts for 20 years. He started teaching martial arts in 1993. He has studied Shorinji Ryu Karate, Okinawan weaponry, Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, and Tai Chi Chuan all under Master Richard Kim, Sensei Rod Sanford and Sensei Lou Jemison. Sensei Wakefield taught in a martial arts school (dojo) in Soquel CA for 17 years. Through that time, he became the head instructor for the largest, most successful dojo in Santa Cruz county. Under the tutelage of his Sensei, he was able to instruct students from the age of 4 to 74. He has also studied Goju-Ryu karate under master Tomoharu Kisaki, Shito Ryu Karate under master Kenei Mabuni, and Shotokan Karate under Master Hidetaka Nishiyama. Sensei Wakefield is passionate about bringing QUALITY martial arts to Campbell.

Bio of Sensei Richard Kim

MASTER RICHARD KIM: In 1991 Sensei Wakefield began studying Shorinji-Ryu Karate with Master Richard Kim. Master Kim began his study of traditional Martial Arts in 1925. In Japan he studied the Budoju Happan, 18 martial arts of Japan. In addition he studied such arts as T'ai Chi Chuan, P'a Kua, Hsing Yi and Shorinji-Ryu for many years in China. Master Kim was the world's highest ranking man in Shorinji-Ryu Karate and was considered the world's foremost authority on Traditional Karate, Black Belt magazine has referred to him as, "Karate's Guiding Light" and he has been in the Black Belt Hall of Fame on a number of occasions throughout the years. He is a well known author and writer. At over 80 years of age he was extremely active teaching seminars throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. O’Sensei Kim passed away in 2001. His legacy however is carried on by Sensei Wakefield and the Zen Bei Butoku-Kai North America throughout the world.

About Our School

Our school will offer a well-rounded Traditional Martial Arts program that emphasizes character development, self-improvement, and individual accomplishment.

Our professional staff is dedicated to providing our students a martial arts experience that will provide them with a way of thinking and being that will help them develop respect for themselves and others. To help them learn to maintain a calm and peaceful mind even in the most explosive of situations. And to achieve mind and body fitness not just as a fad, but rather as a way of life. All of this while developing great self-defense skills.

Grand Opening of West Valley Martial Arts

We plan to open our doors August 2010. We're currently in the process of getting a special permit from the city of Campbell in order to open a Karate Studio in a former medical office location.

We're in the works of building our website which will be www.wvmadojo.com and should launch around the same time as we open! Until then, we'll list all information here on our blog...