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Karate and other sports on Nuns’ Island
You already have a sport, or your child does. These guides are not trying to pull you away from it: they say what karate adds alongside, sport by sport, and why it stands on its own as a second activity.
Sport by sport
Each guide starts from what you already know — the calendar, the equipment, how groups are formed — and shows what the dojo brings on top, without taking anything away from your sport or its coach. Each one ends with what your sport keeps as its own: that is the part that makes the rest credible. Twelve guides, from tennis to cycling, and a last one for choosing a sport after 60.
- Karate and tennis: what the dojo adds beside the courtA fixed hour with no court to book, a complete programme graded by belt, what the Compendium says, and the winter.
- Karate and soccer: the second sport, beside the teamWhat the American Academy of Pediatrics says about a second sport, an hour where nobody sits on the bench, and the two seasons.
- Karate and hockey: the complete sport, off the iceBarefoot on the floor, nothing to prepare for the trial, the right moment in the season, and what hockey keeps as its own.
- Karate and dance: what the dojo adds beside the studioBarefoot and a form to present, as at the studio; a partner in front and both sides of the body, as nowhere else.
- Karate and basketball: the second sport, beside the gymGroups by age and level, not by height; nobody on the bench; a progression the child passes alone.
- Karate and swimming: the second sport, out of the waterA body carrying its own weight, a partner in front, and two sports that stay close in the Compendium.
- Karate and volleyball: what the dojo adds on the other side of the netA partner within arm’s reach, both arms, no rotation — and the Compendium figure.
- Karate and baseball: the complete sport of the other seasonThe diamond in summer, the dojo the rest of the year; an hour with no dead time, and nothing to prepare.
- Karate and running: what the dojo adds to your kilometresThe upper body, every direction, a partner in front, and an effort between 9.7 and 11.3 km/h.
- Karate and cycling: what the dojo adds when the bike goes inStanding, the upper body, a partner in front — and a season that starts in November.
- Karate and racket sports: what the dojo adds beside the courtBadminton, squash, pickleball, padel: a fixed hour with no booking, an empty hand, and squash closest to karate.
- Choosing a sport after 60: the questions to askThe hour, the group, the stairs, what is measured, what you can decline — and what the dojo does not promise.
What the dojo adds, whatever the sport
A complete programme in the same hour. In the WKO Shinkyokushinkai first-year textbook, an examination covers kihon, ido geiko, kata, conditioning (knuckle push-ups, jumping squats), flexibility and kumite. Six subjects, graded by belt, in groups formed by age and by level, at a fixed hour, where nobody sits on the bench.
A measured effort: the 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities places karate at a moderate pace at 10.3 MET — above each of the ball, ice, water, racket and studio sports compared in these guides, level with a run between 9.7 and 11.3 km/h, below racing-pace cycling — and a beginner’s slower practice at 5.3. And for a child, a second sport: the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends playing several, at least until puberty.
The dojo is at 550 chemin du Golf, suite 010, on Nuns’ Island (Verdun). Children aged 4 to 13, adults from 14, five days a week. The first class is a free trial.
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