Holistic Karate Martial Arts Midsomer Norton

An exciting new approach to Martial Arts training for mind, body and spirit. Self defence, anti bullying, self development in a fun friendly environment.
First 2 classes free.
Function over flash.

Holistic Karate uses the most efficient martial arts techniques tried, tested and developed over centuries; blended with modern motivational methods and street psychology.

It was set up to provide self protection based training as an alternative to the trend towards sports based martial arts.

We also look to go deeper into self development and philosophical side of martial arts which is often neglected today!

Benefits include fitness, relaxation of mind and body, flexibility, confidence, focus, respect, self-control, perseverance, indomitable spirit, meditation and more. Training is tailored to the individual.

We are very proud to be part of the British Combat Karate Association; which is part of the British Combat Association – probably the most respected practical martial arts organisation in the UK for their pioneering work in developing Karate and Reality Based Martial Arts.

Separate teen/adult and children’s classes (children from 5 years old).

For a number of years Charlie Wildish was frustrated with the way that martial were being taught! They had been dumbed down even in the Far East for various social and political reasons compared to how they were originally taught. Language barriers between Eastern Masters and Western students did not help either.

The post war trend coming especially from Japan and Korea is to focus more and more on sport (as a way to measure success and build prestige) rather than realistic self defence skills.

More recently still, for business reasons, many martial arts teachers have simplified their syllabus’s to teach larger groups and some schools are little more than a fitness class with a martial arts theme, where more time is spent on circuits type exercises than actual martial arts skills!

So Charlie began to train further afield and sought out instructors who thought outside the box and taught a more practically applied version of Karate. He also trained for a while in Wing Chun Kung Fu and Tai C

2012