Our Disciplines

OUR WHY – WHAT ONE CAN BE, ONE MUST BE.

Our goal at Integrity Arts is to create conditions for you to discover your untapped physical, mental, and emotional potential. Our martial arts school teaches a unique full-body and brain martial practice to reveal and develop self-leadership and self-mastery in its students. Our Martial Practices include KARATE, AIKIDO, KORYU UCHINADI and KOBUDO.

The programs develop increased mental and physical awareness to achieve emotional control and create positive outcomes when faced with a negative verbal or physical interaction. It uses experientially based learning in collaboration with other students and the instructor team to accelerate and flatten the learning curve. 

Every aspect of the teaching reinforces the inherent and untapped power of relationships with the self, the physical environment, and with others; all of which act as force multipliers for creating positive outcomes, building greater relationships, and stronger communities.  A bridge to greater empathy and understanding of the human condition and all aspects of common humanity. 

Discipline

Discipline is not about perfection; it is about consistency, attitude, curiosity, and self-discovery. It’s about deciding you are worth the effort required to move forward into growth. 

Our martial arts training goes beyond defending against physical harm to include learning how to manage your emotions so you can live with mental wellbeing to thrive and optimize. We cannot achieve perfection in our body without achieving perfection in our mind. Training is student-centric and customized to each student's goals and aspirations. On and off the mats, our programs allow students to discover how our practices and teachings promote exponential personal growth.

THE BENEFITS OF TRAINING AT INTEGRITY ARTS

  • Balance (physically and mentally)

  • The ability to experience being unbalanced and falling without getting injured

  • Discipline to begin your journey to self-mastery

  • Adventure into a journey of self-discovery and growth

  • Increase personal agency to create positive outcomes

  • Greater self-awareness and greater self-confidence

  • Learn the habit of discipline

  • Train in a safe, supportive community where fans and friends are made

  • Develop a philosophy of nonviolence, virtue, compassion and leadership

  • Increased coordination and core strength

  • Experience a place where you belong, where you can feel comfortable, valued and respected; and be you without judgement.

  • Become part of a progressive, globally recognized system that lets you take on challenges and achieve goals at your own pace, independently and cooperatively.

Shorin-Ryu Shorinkan Karate

Our style of Karate is one of the oldest styles of martial arts in the world. Okinawan Karate dates to the sixth century when Bodhidharma’s (Daruma), traveled from India to China where he settled at a Shao-lin (Shorin in Japanese) Monastery. The introduction of ch-uan-fa (“fist way”) occurred in the late 1300’s with the expansion of trade and cultural exchanges between Okinawa and China. Evidence suggests that te (“hand”), in fact, was an indigenous martial art to Okinawa, (the birthplace of Karate), developing in the villages of Tomari, Naha and Shuri.

Shorin-ryu Shorinkan traces its roots to Shuri-te, the fighting system developed in the royal capital of Shuri, Okinawa.

The lineage of our style includes Sokon “Bushi” Matsumura (the father of Okinawan karate) Ankō Itosu (introduced karate into the school system) Chōshin Chibana (formalized Shorin-ryu in the early 20th century) Shūgorō Nakazato (founded Shorinkan in 1975) Kyoshi Pat Haley (the highest ranked Shorinkan practitioner in North America).

Aikido derives from Daito-Ryu Aiki-Jujutsu. It is said that Daito-Ryu was founded 800 years ago by Shinra-Saburo Minamoto no Yoshimitsu. The Kai Genji Takeda Family (one of the Samurai local rulers) preserved Daito-Ryu as a secret martial art within the family. Nobody knew even the name of this martial art until Sokaku Takeda Sensei began teaching the art outside of the family in the late 19th century. As a student of Sokaku Takeda Sensei and other arts, Morihei Ueshiba Sensei developed Aikido.

Gozo Shioda, the founder of Yoshinkan Aikido was a student of judo in his youth. After being easily thrown by Ueshiba during a demonstration, he immediately became a student of aikido. Shortly after the Second World War, when the ban on martial arts practice was lifted, Gozo Shioda developed Yoshinkan Aikido to promote aikido through a highly structured training approach based on six basic movements and an emphasis on self-defence techniques.

The lineage and teaching influences of our style includes Gozo Shioda (founder of Yoshinkan Aikido) Takafumi Takeno (9th Dan) Tsutomu Chida (Shihan 8th Dan) Takeshi Kimeda (9th Dan) Robert Mustard (Shihan 8th Dan) Fred Haynes (8th Dan) Michael Abe (3rd Dan).

Yoshinkan Aikido

Koryu Uchinadi Kenpo-jutsu

Koryu Uchinadi is based on the Karate of the late 1800’s before sport, ranking and styles. When Karate was only about self-improvement and self-defense.

Created by Hanshi Patrick McCarthy as a pragmatic alternative to the plethora of terribly ambiguous and highly dysfunctional styles of “traditional” karate. Koryu Uchinadi Kenpo-jutsu is a modern interpretation of Okinawa’s historic fighting arts: Tegumi, Ti’gwa, Torite, Buki-gwa & Kata. A completely systematized method of learning and teaching, delivered in a traditional atmosphere, honouring the culture from which it comes and the pioneers who forged its practice, Koryu Uchinadi is both an art and a science that bridges all martial practices.

Ryukyu Kobudo is the term used for the ancient art of Okinawan weaponry. As we know it today and practice, it can be traced back to Sakugawa Todi (1733-1815), the forefather of the TÔDE (present-day Karate), who practiced also Buki-Jutsu (fight-techniques with arms).

Tesshinkan Kobudo uses primarily Bo (long-stick), Sai (metal-trident), Nunchaku (two sticks), Tekko (knuckledusters), Tunfa (baton), Tinbe & Rochin (shield & dagger), Kama (sickle) and Êku (paddle). 

In training, the primary intention is to develop the body based on physical laws and biomechanics. 

The lineage and teaching influences of our style includes Yabiku Moden (1878-1941), Taira Shinken (1897-1970), Akamine Eisuke (1925-1999), and now by Tamayose Hidemi Sensei, and by Rainer Todsen and Martin Nicholson.

TESSHINKAN KOBUDO

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Integrity Arts is a martial arts school where a unique physical and intellectual martial practice is learned to discover, reveal, and develop your capacity for leadership... Our Martial Practice includes: KARATE, AIKIDO and KORYU UCHINADI KENPO-JUTSU.

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