Karate Tournaments and Tournament Prep Day Camps
This winter break, we will be hosting two tournament prep day camps for current students interested in exploring learning more about karate tournaments. Registration for the Winter Break Tournament Prep Camps is Open now!
Jin Sei Ryu Tournaments 2025
Sunday June 1, 2025 – Culture of Safety’s 5-year Anniversary Kids and Teens Tournament. Held onsite at Culture of Safety. This is our second annual Anniversary tournament. Join us in celebrating our 5 year anniversary! Registration to open in Spring 2025. All ages and all levels welcome!
Saturday October 2, 2025: Jin Sei Ryu International Invitational Tournament. Held in Baltimore, MD
Why a tournament?
Through a tournament (and tournament prep camp) your child will find their inner strength, courage, focus, and discipline. We focus on developing confidence to perform and engage in competition in a healthy way, and to practicing winning or losing with humility and kindness to themselves and others. As one participant’s family member (and retired figure skating judge!) said to their child after our 2024 tournament, “Competition is only against yourself. Your scores aren’t to compare you against others, but to help you see where you can improve for your next competition.” We agree! And we agree that while competition is exciting for some kids and overwhelming or scary for others, the lessons we learn about ourselves through engaging in healthy competition are priceless. Our approach to tournaments (and competition) at Culture of Safety is strengths-based, encouraging, and empowering. Every child goes home from our tournaments with increased confidence, pride, and a participant medal. Most leave excited to keep exploring these skills in their next class!
Winter Break Tournament Prep Day Camps
Thursday, January 2nd 2025 – Kata Camp
Friday, January 3rd 2025 – Sparring & Shadow Sparring Camp
- Open to current karate students age 6-15, all ranks
- Camps run 9am to 4pm. Drop-off begins 8:45, sessions start 9:30. Late pick-up available.
- Rates are $75 Standard/$90 Supporter/$60 Reduced per day. We encourage families to choose the tier that is right for them, regardless of their monthly karate tier.
Register for Winter Camps now!
Want to help your child explore competition, set goals and challenge themselves in a healthy way? Through preparing for tournament, we focus on helping each child find their strength, courage, focus, and discipline. Every child goes home from our tournaments with increased confident, pride, and a participant medal.
How are Tournament Prep camps different from no-school day camps?
These camps are open only to current Culture of Safety karate students. They are designed to be help kids prepare to participate in a tournament. We support each child in finding their confidence to perform and engage in competition in a healthy way, and to practicing winning or losing with humility and kindness to themselves and others. Any kid (age 6-14) interested in participating in either of the 2025 Tournaments is encouraged to attend. Kids younger than 6 MAY participate in our dojo tournament, but the prep day camps are not appropriate for kids younger than 6. Each session will be led in a way appropriate for the maturity level of the kids present. Each camp is the equivalent of 3 – 4 hours of karate classes and will count towards class minimums for rank promotion. This is almost twice as much karate practice as we offer in our normal No-School Day camps.
Tentative Schedule for Camps
Kata Camp
9:15am-9:45am Opening Circle and Introduction to Tournaments
9:45-10:45 Group Kata
10:45 snack
11-12 Basics from Kata, strategies for polishing kata for tournament
12-1 lunch and free time
1-2 Individual practice with coaching (kids not being coached will have free time)
2pm snack, then short quiet time
2:30-3:30 More individual practice time or, time permitting, tournament-style kata presentations. (kids not being coached will have free time)
3:30pm-4pm Closing circle and Debrief
4pm camp officially ends
4pm-5pm – Anyone who stays through late pick-up, gets extra one-on-one time on karate curriculum of choice
Sparring & Shadow Sparring Camp
9:15am-9:45am Opening Circle and Introduction to Tournaments
9:45-10:45 Shadow Sparring (all ranks) & Explanation of new scoring rules
10:45 snack
11-12 Point sparring for brown belts and potentially eligible advanced green belts; free time for others
12-1 lunch and free time
1-2 Individual practice with coaching (students not being coached get free time)
2pm snack and short quiet time
2:30-3:30 More individual practice time or, time permitting, scored point sparring and shadow sparring rounds
3:30pm-4pm Closing circle and Debrief
4pm camp officially ends
4pm-5pm – Anyone who stays through late pick-up, gets extra one-on-one time on karate curriculum of choice
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