About Seikeikan-Uptown Karate

SEIKEIKAN - Uptown Karate was founded in 2004 by Dennis Pfendler. Our Chief Instructor, Dennis Pfendler is a third degree black belt with over fifteen years of training and teaching experience. His passion for improving physical fitness, mental discipline, and spiritual strength is apparent in every class he teaches. Pfendler Sensei has been a positive influence in the lives of many. His ability to reach children and adults alike has earned Uptown Karate a reputation as Vancouver's most respected martial arts studio.

As Chief Instructor, it is his philosophy that the true focus of Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do is to instill people with strong integrity, loyalty and respect. Loyal, intillectual and physical training combine as one to encourage positive development of the human spirit. Through karate training, a student will learn to concentrate fully on their inner strength and spirit and apply the power of the mind. Students develop qualities based on courage, morality, resolve and responsibility. These are facets of human character necessary for the development of human kind and which contribute to the health of society as a whole. This is what is meant by karate-do. This is what we practice. This is what we teach.

...In our everyday training the karate practitioner strives to improve both mind and body seeking perfection and achieving excellence in their practice...practice without "Focus" is just exercise!

Personal Focus

• Respect for Self
• Respect for Others
• Self-Discipline
• Self-Confidence
• Self-Motivation
• Effort
• Goal Setting
• Perserverance

Pysical Focus                                                               

Technical Focus

• Kihon: Basic movement, body position, stance, punch, block, kick, throw, etc.
• Kata: Pre-set sequence of techniques containing the secrets of karate
• Bunkai: Applications of kata movement
• Kumite: Sparring for training, applications, sport and self-defense
• Hojo Undo: Supplemental training with traditional Okinawan/Chinese equipment

                                               “The place where we develop our respect”

                                                                
                                                                  SEI    KEI   KAN

                                                                                                                                                                               
"The process is one of first learning discipline. Physical discipline always comes before mental or spiritual discipline.
Physical discipline leads to the ability to concentrate. The ability to concentrate then leads to the development of skill. As skill development occurs, it leads to confidence. Confidence leads to more concentration, more skilled development, and eventually what we have are kids with
 self-esteem."




  Robert E. Ellis, 6th Dan
  Chief Instructor and Owner
  Seshinkan/Karate On Main
  Tigard, OR
  Instructor of Dennis Pfendler

Uptown Karate
Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do of Vancouver
205 E 16th St.
Vancouver, WA 98663
360.566.0377
SEIKEIKAN@UptownKarate.com

"Real World Self-Defense from Old World Tradition"