Karate beyond choreography.

My approach to the study and practice of karate is grounded in experience, context, and real-world application.

This site is for people interested in how I practise and teach karate, and how I assess its value in the real world — not just how it looks in practice or competition.

It focuses on context, human limitation, and responsibility. On what holds up when stress, uncertainty, and consequence are involved.

Over more than fifty years of training, my understanding of karate has changed considerably. Some of what I was taught has remained with me. Other ideas have been questioned, reconsidered, or left behind.

It is a personal account of the karate I practise and teach today, the principles that guide it, and how my understanding has developed over the years.

My karate is not a finished system or a claim to have found all the answers. It is simply where my understanding has brought me so far.

If it can’t be tested, it can’t be trusted.

Explore the site

These pages explore different aspects of my approach to karate, from its purpose and the way I teach to how I understand kata.