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Dojo News - September 2018
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Leilani Heno - Meditation in motion
Leilani Heno fell in love with the mindfulness and physical aspects of karate when she began training at LKA in 2009, and recently earned...


Daryl Rappold - 100% Effort
Daryl Rappold was only 10 years old when he started training in Johnny Caluda’s youth class at the original LKA dojo on Metairie Road. As...


Jimmy Juno - "Kumite was always it"
Jimmy Juno has had a lot of memorable moments in his long career. Beginning as a white belt in 1987, he has the distinction of being...


Lisa Croft - Exercise with meaning
I had studied ballet and dance as a young girl, but I was always interested in martial arts and did not know which martial arts club to...


Vey Laplace - Conquering Intimidation
Vey was interested in karate from a very young age, but she thought that the idea of training and competing with fighters was simply too...


LKA students fight hard, earn medals at JKA Nationals in Metairie
November 2017, one hundred and twenty competitors from ages 5 to 75 from across North America traveled to Grace King High School in...


Karate, practice of peace
This week, on September 21, the world celebrates International World Peace Day. Interestingly enough, we can take part with triple punch...


Team USA fights hard at World Cup
On Finals Sunday of the JKA World Cup on August 20, 2017 in Limerick, Ireland, Team USA fought hard, showing strong technique and good...


Cathy Jarushi - Our first female rokudan
After almost 40 years of effort and commitment, Cathy Jarushi has become the first woman from our dojo to achieve the rank of rokudan. It...
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