The order day a fella came round the house asking if we’d be intersted in learning about Karate. With the London Marathon behind us, and having done a fair bit of boxing, we thought it might be good to do a different style of training.

Naturally we thought we’d write about the experience. So today we introduce the GKR category. We understand so far that GKR is a non-contact karate, which emphasises basic techniques and patterns, with a strong community focus, so it’s an ideal introductory style: as we learn more we’ll write about it.

By the way, the literal translation of the “Go Kan Ryu” is “Hard Complete School”.