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Petaluma Karate Club offers karate training that treats karate as a way of life, with a focus on more than just self-defense. Training in the dojo includes attention to respect, discipline, heightened awareness, improved concentration, and fitness, along with a mental or spiritual component described as an important part of true martial arts.
The program states that training in the dojo is not just for learning self-defense but also for learning about oneself. Petaluma Karate Club is a proud member of The International Karate Daigaku. The club identifies its history with the notation © 2022 Petaluma Karate Club.
A quote shared by the program from Joe Hyam, author of “Zen in the Martial Arts,” describes a dojo as a miniature cosmos where students make contact with their fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits, and as an arena of confined conflict where an opponent is a partner who helps them understand themselves more fully. This quote also describes the dojo as a place where conflicts inside help with conflicts outside, where total concentration and discipline in martial arts carry over to daily life, and where constantly attempting new things becomes a source of learning and self-enlightenment. Another quote shared by the program from Masutatsu Oyama states, “The longer you train in karate, the more you learn about yourself.”
Last updated May 19, 2026.
The program states that training in the dojo is not just for learning self-defense but also for learning about oneself. Petaluma Karate Club is a proud member of The International Karate Daigaku. The club identifies its history with the notation © 2022 Petaluma Karate Club.
A quote shared by the program from Joe Hyam, author of “Zen in the Martial Arts,” describes a dojo as a miniature cosmos where students make contact with their fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits, and as an arena of confined conflict where an opponent is a partner who helps them understand themselves more fully. This quote also describes the dojo as a place where conflicts inside help with conflicts outside, where total concentration and discipline in martial arts carry over to daily life, and where constantly attempting new things becomes a source of learning and self-enlightenment. Another quote shared by the program from Masutatsu Oyama states, “The longer you train in karate, the more you learn about yourself.”
Last updated May 19, 2026.
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