Bury Kenzenkai Karate
Your Family Karate Club
About Us
Bury Kenzenkai Karate offers karate classes for all ages and skill levels. Our mission is to empower individuals through martial arts by promoting discipline, confidence, and physical fitness. Our team, comprised of fully qualified male and female instructors, is dedicated to providing an inclusive and safe training environment. We believe that karate is not just about fighting, but rather a path towards personal development, community bonding and for those who are interested the option to compete at the highest levels.
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Experience the benefits of karate training with our friendly and skilled instructors. Whether you want to learn self-defence, improve your fitness, or simply try something new, we invite you to join our family.
Our class times are below
Mondays - 6.00 - 7.00
Wednesdays - 6.30 - 7.30
Saturdays - 5.30 - 6.30
Find Our Dojo
Sensei John Linstead & Sensei Rebecca Fielding
Sensei John and Sensei Becky run the Bury Clubs together as joint Chief Instructors. Both started karate in the 1990s with John starting in the Lake District under Iain Abernethy in a more practical style of karate and Becky starting in a more Traditional Style under Tommy Kwan in the Rising Sun Dojo in Manchester
After a break, both John and Becky restarted karate with their young children who have now both gone on to become Black Belts in their own right, with Becky’s husband Al also starting also achieving his first dan in 2024.
John and Becky are frequently seen on different sides of the UK competition scene with Becky having won multiple BKF and EKF National titles as well as a Commonwealth Championship medal and John an EKF Kumite Referee and EKF Kata Judge who is now also developing the next generation of National and International Referees and Judges.
Sensei John and Sensei Becky attained the ranks of Sandan and Nidan respectively in May 2024. John initially started a Bunkai focussed class in 2022 with Becky then coming into the class to teach the solo forms of the kata they would be examining alongside it. In 2024 they open Bury Kenzenkai Karate.
In 2023 John first met and trained with Sensei Masataka Ohshita M.A.Ed., Soke, Hanshi 10th Dan and in November 2024 John and Rebecca were accepted into the Osita-ha Shitoryu Shukokai Karatedo International association
Instructor Team
In addition to Sensei Becky and Sensei John we also have a team of assistant instructors who are at every lesson to help get the best out of our students and provide additional support. We have Harry Fielding who specialises in Competition Kata, Cesare Linstead who specialises in Competition Kumite and Al Fielding who specialises in supporting the younger students and those with additional needs.
Soke, Hanshi, 10th Dan, Masataka Ohshita M.A.Ed
Soke, Hanshi, 10th Dan, Masataka Ohshita M.A.Ed. was born in July 1956 in Kobe, Japan.
He is a prominent martial artist and a recognized figure in the world of Japanese martial arts, particularly in the field of Karate. He started learning Iaido at the age of 6 from his father who was a grand master of Iaido and who founded an Iaido school called “Suireikan”. He started Judo at the age of 9 and Karate at the age of 16, first starting in 1972 at the Hotoku Gakuen High School Karate Club, in Mikage, Kobe, Japan.
After graduating from the University of St.Thomas in Japan, he went to the USA to teach karate. He taught karate in the US Army National Guard, at the University of Alaska, in high school and at his dojo. By day he studied anthropology at the University of Alaska. He was a Kumite Champion in the State of Alaska in 1981. After spending four years teaching karate in the USA, he returned to Japan. He enrolled again at the University of St. Thomas in Japan and got English teacher’s licenses for high school and junior high school in 1985.
He is a Professor of 25 years and studied Biomechanics of Sports Injuries at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental & Clinical Traumatology in Austria, is a former Professor of Sports Science at Ashiya University in Japan and now teaches Japanese culture, mainly Japanese Budo (Martial Arts), Karate, Judo, Kendo, Iaido and Japanese calligraphy.
He is the founder, President and World Chief Instructor of Osita-ha Shitoryu Shukokai Karatedo International, with dojos in several countries including Austria, United Kingdom, India, Phillapines, Slovakia, France, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Australia and New Zealand. He is also the founder of "Suirei-kan", dedicated to Iaido in the style of Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu Iai Heiho.
The Honbu Dojo for "Osita-ha Shitoryu Karate" and "Suirei-kan Iaido" is in Minoh City Osaka, Japan, which is part of "Kensei-kan". The Sensei of Soke, Hanshi, 10th Dan, Masataka Ohshita M.A.Ed. is Mimoto Sensei, 10th Dan, who is the president of Karatedo Shitoryu Kenseikan in Japan, the president of Minoh-city Karate federation in Osaka, and Big Soke of our groups.
Soke, Hanshi, 10th Dan, Masataka Ohshita M.A.Ed. has students all over the world, with instructors and students regularly travelling to train with him, providing direct access to the knowledge of the original karate masters of Okinawa and Japan.
White Ribbon
The UK’s leading charity engaging men and boys to end violence against women and girls.
White Ribbon aims to prevent violence against women and girls by tackling its underlying causes. They engage with men and boys to transform deeply rooted, harmful attitudes, systems, and behaviors related to rigid gender norms and masculinity that contribute to inequality and violence.
Sensei John Linstead is an accredited White Ribbon Ambassador
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