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Oxford Shotokan Ryu Kase Ha follow the teachings of the late Master Taiji Kase
Set up in 1985 by Norman Gomersall 4th Dan after moving to Oxford from Bradford. The club was affiliated to the Karate Union of Great Britain until 1990 when Norman joined the newly formed English Shotokan Academy, founded by the late Sensei Steve Cattle 6th Dan.
The style of karate that we train in is Shotokan Ryu Kase Ha, a form of Shotokan karate developed by the late Master Taiji Kase. It was a desire to improve and develop his karate in a more traditional way that Sensei Gomersall followed Steve Cattle and trained many times with Sensei Kase.
Sensei Gomersall is still the senior instructor at the club and along with senior club members regularly attend courses in the UK and Europe. We train with senior instructors of the SRKH Academy including Sensei Dirk Heene 8th Dan from Belgium, Sensei Velibor Dimitrijevic 7th Dan from Serbia, now residing in Greece and Sensei Pascal Lecourt 6th Dan from France. These distinguished instructors are members of the Shihanki (the executive Sensei Kase set up to carry on the development of his karate).
We are a friendly club and welcome beginners and experienced karateka to join us and learn the advanced style of shotokan karate that Sensei Kase has left us.
If you are considering taking karate, look around at local clubs before you make a decision, it is important that you find a style and club that suits you. We are not sports karate orientated, we train in a traditional form of karate, the way karate was practiced before the popularity of competitions.
We take beginners over the age of 18.
Training times
We train on Mondays between 8.00pm and 9.30pm and Wednesday evenings between 7.00pm to 8.30pm at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon.
Fees
It costs £5 per session and an annual licence fee is £25. There is no club membership fee.
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