Q: What makes Sensei Gregory C. Lewis' Modern Karate unique?
A: This system of karate prepares students for real-deal, no rules, no one to help you, full-contact fighting.
Our ‘style’ evolved from a long-line of traditional-yet-modern full-contact (“knockdown”) karate schools, specifically Enshin. Our focus, however, is not on winning tournaments, but surviving violent encounters with one or more opponents, both ‘armed’ and ‘unarmed’.
Shigaisen, is a noun meaning “street fighting” in the Japanese language. It is also a nickname we chose for this system of karate.
We like the aesthetic (and notoriously tough training) of traditional full-contact/knockdown karate. We also realize that we live in the United States in the 21st century, with its rising crimes rates (hate crimes in particular); and its long history (and current reality) of the celebration and glorification of violence (and the numerous and varied justifications for that). This environment has shaped us all, both cultura…