RSKC History

Reading Shotokan Karate club proudly own the origins of Shotokan Karate in Reading. We have been in Reading since the 1970's.

We started under the original name of Reading Japanese Martial Arts Society but we later changed to Reading Shotokan Karate Club. 

Inspired from the great 70's Kung Fu movies we started with many budding Bruce Lee's and Chuck Norris's. From these early days, many of the instructors from the Reading area were coached to a high level at Reading SKC and left to start their own successful clubs.

Our early instructors included:
  John Anderson
  Jeff Gibbs
  Nick Adamou
  Chris Adamou
  Phil Reed

Visiting instructors have included:
  Sensei Enoeda
  Sensei Tomita
  Sensei Ohta
  Sensei Hazard
  Sensei Graham