UPDATE: As of September 15, 2025, Shobu Karatedo has terminated its program and residency through Ravenswood Fellowship UMC’s space sharing program. This is no reflection on RFUMC, and purely a condition of where we are as a dojo. We are so grateful for nearly thirteen years of partnership and community-building with RFUMC!

Shobu Karatedo will continue to operate as a private group for existing membership and will not be accepting any new members for the foreseeable future. We hope to work out other arrangements in the future, at which time we will update. You may also e-mail shobukaratedo@gmail.com to stay in touch.

This site will remain live as a reference.

Yours in Karatedo,

Erik Matsunaga