At United Karate Academy you will be greeted with a friendly atmosphere and a club that promotes learning together as a team of mixed age and abilities.

Lessons are very varied and include a wide range of Self defense techniques, traditional Katas and competition style Kumite.

As well as frequent club grading's and training days we also attend external competitions as a team.

Renshinkai

The style of Karate that we practice is Renshinkai, Renshinkai was founded in 1979 at Leytonstone Karate Club. The name Renshinkai represents UNITY, a combination of the styles and techniques enabled a competition fighting team to be formed from the original Leytonstone club. The team had a lot of flair and courage as they traveled throughout England, Scotland and Wales, fighting the best teams in these countries. The team became very famous, which led them to decide that a name was needed to express the strong bond they felt together as a team. With the help of Mr Tamakazawa the chief instructor of Tera karate group, and also the head of B.K.S, the name Renshin was founded.

The style was than formed by the than Senior Instructor and team captain Greg Wallace, with the permission of then the chief instructor Sensei D. WU who did not have the time to do this himself. Shihan Wallace set about combining his own rapid combinations and body shift with Garth Waldropt's favorite technique Uraken Uchi, Lloyd William's left hand reverse punch, John Sanghera's Ashi Bari reverse punch, Levi Pedies variation of kicks, and Rupert Taylors lethal Mae Geri, to produce one of the most exciting and respected fighting style there is. Shihan Wallace then turned his attention to the basic side of the styles kata. He changed all the basic kata which originated from styles such as kyokushinkai, Wado Ryu, Gojo Ryu, Shotokan, and then put a lot of thinking into creating high grades original Renshinkai Kata. Kata such as Nidan sho, Go shin, Renshin, which express a true Unification of styles within a style.
RENSHINKAI STRENGH IN UNITY.

Sensei Stuart Frary 4th Dan

Sensei Stuart Frary 4th Dan Began training under Shihan Greg Wallace (Founder of Renshinkai Karate) in October 1987. Sensei Frary was a member of the BASKA competition squad and competed in many competitions across the country wining many titles in both Kata and Kumite. In 1998 Sensei Frary was undefeated for an entire year and during this year he won many titles including BASKA league champion, BASKA national champion and BASKA sports personality of the year. In 2001 Sensei Frary Stopped competing and started concentrating his efforts on coaching and achieved his level 1 and level 2 national coaching qualifications. He was also made a member of the BASKA technical committee and by the end of 2001 Sensei Frary took over from Shihan Wallace as full time coach of Renshinkai Tigers.

Sensei Mark Junnix 2nd Dan

Sensei Junnix originally began training in the Renshinkai karate style in 1991 with Sensei John Tear, since then he left his original club and joined Renshinkai tigers which was the first Renshinkai club started by Shihan Greg Wallace. it was at Renshinkai tigers that Sensei Junnix earned his 1st Dan grade (black belt) under the guidance of Sensei Frary. Renshinkai tiger closed in January 2010, and sensei Junnix then started training with Shihan Elan Adams (assistant chief instructor of biko) Sensei Junnix is a qualified BIKO/EKF instructor