Okinawan Seidokan Karate and Kobudo
 
 
 

Welcome to the website of the Torii Dojo, a member of the All Okinawa Seidokan Karate Kobudo Association. The dojo was established in 1970 by Ed Duga, Shihan Sensei and continues to teach Okinawan martial arts in western Pennsylvania in the same traditional manner today.

The Torii Dojo offers well-rounded martial arts training that focuses on:

  • karate - empty hand technqiues
  • kobudo - "old way" weapons
  • toide - joint locking and throwing techniques

Specializing in self defense training, the Torii Dojo offers students in the Derry and Blairsville areas of Westmoreland and Indiana County, PA a unique experience to practice karate with instructors who have studied in Okinawa and class time emphasizing discipline, focus and refinement of character.

The traditional Okinawan martial arts training provided by the Torii Dojo Includes:

  • junbi undo - warm ups
  • hojo undo - body conditioning
  • kihon waza - basic techniques
  • kata - forms
  • bunkai and techiki - interpretation and application of kata
  • kumite - free sparring
  • ippon kumite - one attack and counter techniques
  • yakusoku kumite - multiple step techniques

Please contact or stop by during dojo hours for more information.

 

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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5/14/10-5/15/10 The RSKKR Annual Training will be held at Camp Cory in Rochester, NY

1/5/10 Classes will resume following Christmas break

12/22/09 This will be the last class before Christmas break

11/26/09 Thanksgiving - No Class

11/14/09 The new location will have it's Grand Opening - please join us for a day of demonstrations, sharing and fellowship. Note that this is a different date than originally posted and that dinner will follow at Robokyo Japanese Steakhouse.

7/5/09 Congratulations to Sensei Duga who was promoted to 9th Dan today by Toma Sensei

7/5/09 The dojo summer picnic will be held at the new dojo location (Sensei Kohler's home) beginning at 1:00 PM

6/25/09 Sensei Duga and Kohler studded the walls of the new dojo today

5/31/09 A great time was had by all this weekend at the annual International Seidokan Association seminar in Rochester, NY. The 2010 ISA seminar has been scheduled to be hosted again in Rochester, NY during the last weekend in May.

4/13/09 Please email the dojo so that we can update the contact list in order to send out updates of the new dojo as they occur

3/16/09 Motobu 20 waza section updated with video

3/1/09 Anaku video added to kata section

2/26/09 Congratulations to Sensei Anthony Cortazzo who was promoted to Shichidan - 7th degree black belt and granted the title of Shihan by Duga Sensei

2/3/09 New class schedule effective February

1/22/09 Site update: seidokan kata and basic 11 sections revised

1/8/09 Congratulations to Boulahfa Mimoun Sensei of Spain on his promotion to Kudan - 9th degree black belt in Seidokan

1/6/09 Classes resume following Christmas Break

10/1/08 The Ryukoku Seidokan Karate and Kobudo Renmei (RSKKR) was formed under Sensei Ron Nix with the goal of perpetuating Toma Sensei's teachings

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