Jan Scheepers loves doing karate for the discipline of the sport.
“Karate to me is a way of life,” he says, “it teaches one to be humble, to live with integrity and discipline, as well as to have respect for others.”
And it is precisely that what he is teaching his students, because a true karate-ka, according to Scheepers, is always pursuing mental and physical perfection.
Striving towards this makes karate a lifelong study.
He started karate at the age of six for about three years and started thereafter when he was 14 years old.
He is currently training under the KWF/BKI (Karate no Michi/Budo Karate International) organisations, where he has already received a second dan.
Scheepers explains KWF karate is a form of karate that represents a compilation of highly sophisticated techniques into an art form.
The characteristic features of KWF karate are in the way that the whole body must be fully utilised to produce dynamic and extremely strong techniques that are explosively powerful.
“We do not deal in feints, small techniques and tactical ploys,” says Scheepers. “The training techniques we are using were developed through research.
It makes the person doing the sport aware of and how to control his centre of gravity and hip and back movement.
“The idea is to develop the ability to control your movements to the nearest millimeter,” says Scheepers.
He had been teaching karate full-time for five years and is currently active in 10 schools and pre-schools in Springs and Nigel.
Scheepers is proud of his students who took several medals in different competitions this year.
