About us

Owen Black Belt School is a Karate school operating in and around the Derby area. We offer karate classes and tutition to people of all ages.

Owen Black Belt School run regular karate classes at various venues in and around Derby. See our timetable page for details of our classes.

We offer a unique syllabus promoting the work ethics we want for our children - to become productive, self sufficient, self disciplined members of society, All martial arts clubs offer the benefits of self discipline and focus for your children but here at OWEN BLACK BELT SCHOOL we pride ourselves on delivering those promises, tailoring classes to better benefit your children. This is a club for the student, not the instructor, geared towards building fitness and confidence as well as providing a solid self defence based Martial Art.

Class sizes are strictly limited! We offer a waiting list rather than over subscribe your class! Maximum 20 students per class. Free uniform with enrolment.

Adult classes are designed to bridge the gap between an interesting, demanding martial art and an effective system for self defence utilising the complimentary disciplines of Wado Ryu Karate and modern submission fighting techniques to compliment each other.

AMA qualified and fully CRB checked, we also have a minimum of 5 years experience with primary and secondary school children. We are fully insured to safeguard both you and your child.

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ABOUT WADO RYU KARATE

Wado-Ryu Karate is a Japanese martial art founded by Hironori Ohtsuka Sensei in 1934. Ohtsuka Sensei developed Wado-Ryu after studying the Samurai martial art of Jiu-jitsu, and Shotokan (another style of Karate). This combination, according to Ohstuka Sensei, is a softer, more natural means of self-protection.

The full name of the style is Wado-Ryu Karate-Do. The term Wado-Ryu means "way of peace" or "way of harmony", indicating Ohtsuka Sensei's original intention to use training in Wado-Ryu as a means of solving problems in a non-violent way. Karate-Do means "way of the empty hand", as Karate is, for the most part, studied without the use of weapons.