Welcome

Karate is a Japanese martial art built around a system of punches, blocks, kicks and sweeps. It is a great way to build your character, keep fit, and improve your flexibility.

OUKC is a Shotokan karate club affiliated to the Japan Karate Association England. We follow the principles of JKA Karate.

Classes are for complete beginners through to advanced. We have a long history of welcoming students who have trained under a different style/association or are not members of the University. We are a friendly, apolitical club that wants to improve our karate together.

If you are interested in finding out more about our club, please contact our Sensei, Spiros Ventouras, or the club president. All of the information on how to join and our training is on this website.

Fresher's Information

Dear Fresher,

Welcome to this beautiful university! We are so happy you are interested in our club!

We welcome total beginners, old pros and everyone in between. :)

If you would like to get a sign up link for fresher's training and information on how to join and the fresher social date and time, please sign up through our Fresher's form! (This information will only be used to send out a few information during the first few weeks of term. If you are not interested anymore after that, there will be no need to unsubscribe.)

Please sign up here

In week 1,2 and 3 we will run specific beginner taster sessions in parallel to normal training: Mondays from 8.30 to 10.15 pm.

Are you already experienced in karate? Just come along to any training session right away :) (Training times are on this website).

See you in the dojo soon!