The Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games are held each year at Penn State University in State College.  The event brings together over 2,000 athletes and 750 coaches from across the state.  Our largest event of the year, Summer Games features three days of intense competition in aquatics, athletics, basketball, bowling, equestrian, golf, gymnastics, softball and tennis.  Every race, every game, every competition held at Summer Games represents many weeks of training, preparation and dedication on the part of our athletes, coaches and volunteers.
http://www.specialolympicspa.org/sports-competitions/competitions/summer-games

We’re organizing a Penn State Karate Club volunteer team to help with the track & field events on June 4th.  If you are available, get in touch with us.

This is last summer’s volunteer team:

Young’s Spring 2016 Tournament, Bellefonte, PA.

By looking at kata through the equally important eyes of health and skill, the plethora of applications becomes apparent. It’s like unraveling a knot, you examine the skills and see how they can be applied to striking, blocking, locking, throwing, dislocation, evasion and entering and you realize that what you have is a method of training a complete skill base that can be unraveled into a complete arsenal of techniques.

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Kata Doesn’t Work In A Fight?

• The PSKC dojo opens for the Spring semester on Tuesday, January 12th at 7PM in 106 White Building.

• Demos, open-house, and new member sign-ups on Thursday the 14th & Sunday the 17th.

• Look for our table at the spring student involvement fair on Monday the 11th from 11:00am to 4:00pm in Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center.

• PSKC will be conducting a Karate demo & workshop at Setsucon 2016 at the end of the month.  This year Setuscon will be held at the Toftrees Conference Center.  Visit their website for more information: www.setsucon.com

Congrats to PSKC competitors on their achievements at the Fall Brawl 2015 in New Kensington.

Isshin Ryu founder Tatsuo Shimabuku was born on September 19th, 1908.  In honour of Master Shimabuku’s birthday, the Penn State Karate Club is holding a special martial arts demonstration (Embu Tai Kai) on Sunday the 20th at 7:30PM in 106 White Building.  Admission is free.  After the demonstration, audience members are invited to participate in some self-defense drills.

Shimabuku EmbuTaiKai 2015 Handout

PSKC will have a dojo open-house with demos, audience participation, and new member sign-ups during the first week of the semester.

* 7PM in room 106 White Building on Tuesday(25th), Thursday(27th) & Sunday (30th)

Membership is open to all Penn State students, faculty and staff.  No previous experience required.

Look for our table at the Involvement Fair on Monday(24th) & Tuesday(25th) in Heritage Hall at the HUB, between 11-4pm.

PSKC members competed at the IWKA 2015 World Championship Tournament in Princeton, NJ on August 7th & 8th winning 14 awards in 1st, 2nd & 3rd places for kata, kobudo & kumite events.  Congratulations everyone!