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Our karate style is called “Uechi-Ryu”. This means style of the Uechi family. The Uechi’s live on Okinawa and have provided a tool  to practice a traditional martial arts for self defense.  We use an “up-right” stance designed to protect, and keep possible threats “in front” of the person. Our exercises are repetitious, something we will do each class session which helps develop self discipline by providing a good, healthy, safe routine that is really quite fun. This exercise routine also promotes balance and helps each person to utilize both the right and left sides of their body.

We work very hard at displaying respect and courtesy, both to ourselves, and each other. We do this with “bows” as well as a good, positive atmosphere with which to practice in. Many times students who might have issues with school work, or other children, or when children have a great deal of excess energy, this karate style helps to bring grades up, and promotes a confidence that can bring resolution for the other issues without conflict.

We do not promote tournaments. However, if a student is interested in participating in one, we will do our best to prepare that student. We enjoy promoting the kind of competition which requires one to grow within themselves  and become sucessful talented karateka (students of karate) as well as determined and focused when dealing with personal challenges.

We concentrate on the self defense postures and subsequent tools, such as kata and blocks, as well as those kicks and punches that are used when defense is necessary. Kata are like little dances, the first being called “Sanchin” which is also the term used for our “stance”. Sanchin promotes balance and is a specific formula that anyone can learn and practice and feel successful.

Once a student reaches green belt rank, they will be taught how to spar, and adults begin free sparring at this time. These kata and other tools of practice express a visionary depth of perception of the world and to all those who reside on it.

Morgan’s Karate also places emphasis on team work, focus, “trying your very best”, so application of all the positive attributes that comprise every karate student. We have tons of promotions and encourage all students to practice and do their best “in their life” as well as in karate.

Thank you for your interest, and feel free to call for more information.
Kerry Morgan, Sensei: Third or San-Dan
Please enjoy one of our student's black belt test essays on what getting his black belt meant to him. We are extremely proud of this student. He really got what it means to be a black belt.
What Getting My Black Belt Means to Me
By; Toby Phillips

[What getting my black belt means to me is to] It was the end of the A+ P.L.U.S. Program on September 28, 2006. My mom and I were walking out of the lobby in Plymouth Elementary School. The choice for the upcoming session of the afterschool program was yoga, which my sister was attending, and karate, the thing that most of the boys were doing. I wasn’t fond of yoga, but karate, that was a pretty cool opportunity. To actually believe in something, to actually know how to defend myself, and to learn. I knew that was the right choice at the time, and I know it was the right choice right here, right now.
‘Welcome to Morgan’s Karate Do!’ the flyers Sensei Morgan handed out said. I was pretty mad at the time. I thought I would go in to the class with a white belt, and come out with a black belt. But little did I know it took years to get a black belt, and most of the kids in my class wouldn’t even make it halfway there. I, however, was determined. I wanted to get that belt so bad, it was like I could see into the future and watch myself receiving the belt and tying it around my waist, and that was all I wanted.
Now it was a year later. I was in second grade, and it was the end of the school year. I was a brown belt. I had no stripes, and I was telling my classmates of my victory. I had done it; I had gotten a brown belt in less than two years. *I zipped right through my green belt faster than most.*  I was so proud of myself, and I could hardly wait to get the next belt: black.
Right now, I am a brown belt with two black stripes. I hope to get my black belt today.
What my black belt means to me is having something else incorporated in my life. Once you get your black belt, you’re always a black belt. I will always be a black belt. Getting my black belt means having Mr. Uechi inside my mind. I think getting my black belt isn’t showing off that I have a black belt. No, receiving my black belt means the world to me because I know that I’ve started something new.



Congratulations Toby Phillips, Brandon Wyatt Morgan, and Jamieson Morgan on your first degrees!








Fun notes from Mr. Sensei


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    Wash the last tub over there then you can go home.   With a twinkle of a bad child my parthner walked towards the large barn doors.  He looked like a Cowboy walking off to the sunset.   The rich warm sun ligth busted into the hay filled walls.   Red shafts of light shot out of the loft through the slated floors.   Suddenly  the light show ended.