Reikan Karate

Reikan are a family friend club with all lessons open to children, adults and families. Lessons are suitable for all levels of fitness. We 'suggest' a minimum age of five as a guideline. If your child is younger or around the age of five, we suggest you come down and have a look at what we do to gauge suitability. We understand that no two children are the same. We welcome visitors to our classes, just say hello to one of the instructors.
 
Who are we?
We strongly believe in a family friendly club, somewhere not only the students feel welcome and at ease, but the parents and extended families of our students. We welcome visitors and people are free to stay within the dojo to watch or from the viewing gallery. In our time so far, we like to think that we have established a good bond with our parents, who are all keen and enthusiastic and are known to join in when we have "fun lessons" and create a great social atmosphere afterwards. We encourage parent participation and believe that good communication between instructors, students and family are extremely important.
We have a Child Protection Policy in place and a copy of this can be obtained on request from either Instructor.
 
Sensei Paul Keates
Sensei Paul trained in Shotokan for a short while before joining the Royal Navy. During this time he tried out Wado Ryu before taking a break from the sport in 1979. It was only after daughter Nicole wanted to start karate 7 years ago that Paul got back into training, this time in Shitoryu. Father and daughter have trained at the same club since then.
Sensei Paul has worked in the security industry for the last 25 years and has never had to use karate in all that time. Paul was award the Binney Bravery Award by Prince Charles in 1992 after catching an armed robber in North London. Recently Sensei Paul has been running a club at The Grove Hotel, Watford. Paul holds an Enhanced CRB Disclosure
 
Sensei Tony Perry
Sensei Tony began his karate training back in Kyokoshinkai in the early eighties. After a long break, Tony got back into karate after his son's started training. This is where Tony and Paul met. He went on to become the Association Coach for Hanko-Ryu Karate-Do and an English Karate Kata Judge. Tony holds an Enhanced CRB Disclosure, First Aid Training including Sports Injury First Aid.
Both Sensei Paul and Tony have been awarded the Jack Petchey's "Outstanding Leaders" Award for their contribution to Hanko-Ryu.
 
Independent Karate Clubs
Reikan Karate are pleased to announce that they are now part of the IKC Association who are affiliated to the current governing body of Karate for England and also the World Karate Federation. We think that the partnership of Reikan and IKC will be successful and mutually beneficial for students, parents and instructors.
 
Please see the Reikan Karate website for further details