Professional Training Seminars
Profession Training Seminars – unique mission-focused training by and for professionals, at Mountain Karate.
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Events
2025 Annual Mountain Karate Seminar
2025 Annual Mountain Karate Seminar
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Mountain Karate – Opening Ceremony
Without missing a beat, or a class, our new dojo opened today. After years of planning and months of building we enjoyed great training in our new place.
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Mountain Karate Seminar 2024
Seventh Annual Mountain Karate Yamabayashi Ryu Seminar 2024
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Visitors’ Seminar, June 14, 2024
Visitors’ Seminar
Mountain Karate
54 Carolina Avenue, Saluda, NC
First session: Friday, June 14, 2024, 10am – Noon
For martial artists in any style who want to learn our
-bunkai applications
-techniques for bunkai research
-unique body mechanics
Morning session
Registration open through 3/15/24
Additional sessions will follow.
Attendance limited to 12 participants per session
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7th Annual Yamabayashi Seminar, June 6-9, 2024
Intensive training, Black belt testing, Tactics and techniques, Mountain Training, Principles of movement, Yamabayashi Bunkai applications
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100 Kata Workout 2.0
Congratulations to all those who participated in multiple 100 kata workouts this week, commemorating the 1936 meeting of karate leaders.
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September Outdoor Location
View from the September 2023 Outdoor location, Hendersonville-Columbus NC area. A good place and a good day for training. *** Read the groundbreaking new book True Karate Dō “One of the best books I’ve read in years, inviting and compelling. Jeff Brooks moves effortlessly from martial arts to Buddhism to consciousness studies, self-transformation, and related fields
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August Outdoor Training
Mountain Karate August Outdoor training area. Some visitors, accustomed to an urban, built environment, find this area to be not really real. Most find it a challenging and inspiring place to train. And return again and again.
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New Murals
Beautiful and inspiring new murals on the dojo wall – painted by Tarleton Brooks, black belt instructor at Mountain Karate. For a close look at these and other dojo art, visit our Art page. Post by Jeff Brooks, author of the influential book True Karate Dō, instructor of Yamabayashi Ryu at Mountain Karate, Saluda, NC
Mountain Training June 2023
View from this week’s mountain training site
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New Yudansha
Mountain Karate, Saluda, NC Congratulations to Mountain Karate’s three new Yudansha! Promoted during our Sixth Annual Seminar, following four days of testing in the dojo and the mountains, (and after years of training), showing hard-earned strength, endurance and skill. And congratulations to those who promoted to higher dan ranks, to kyu ranks, and to all
Sixth Annual Seminar Mountain Training
June 6, 2023, Henderson County, NC We stood on a rock ledge looking over a valley, surrounded by pine forest. We could see the mountains rolling out to the horizon, disappearing into the clouds. Usually blue, but tonight yellow. As the sun set over the west, we ascended. While some felt the world closing in,
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