Welcome

Welcome to Hughes Karate-do. We are a traditional Shorin Ryu Shorinkan Okinawan karate dojo located in Gilbert, Arizona and have been providing high quality martial arts training to our community for 30 years.

Our Martial Arts Lineage

We are proud to be a member in good standing of the Shorin Ryu Shorinkan organization under the leadership of Grandmaster Hanshi Shugoro Nakazato. We believe that the traditional karate of Okinawa provides a rich, comprehensive and effective program for all serious practitioners of the martial arts. We provide training for adults and children in all aspects of Okinawan karate including traditional weapons such as the bo, kama, and nunchaku.

Why Okinawan Karate

We believe that the Karate of Okinawa provides a rich, comprehensive, and effective means of personal self-defense. Okinawan Karate was developed as a response to the need to defend common people against the agression of various invaders and tyrants, and as such provides a realistic and conclusive set of solid self-defense techniques. Okinawan styles of Karate are not sport forms; this is a combat art.