Tampa Karate

Instructor/Owner- Cesar Andia, Renshi 5th Dan

Cesar has began training in Ryu Te in 1997. He started training and received his Shodan (first degree black belt) in 2000.   under Kyoshi Seiken Takamine while living in Coram, New York.  Cesar received his Sandan in the year of 2007 before a two year deployment in Iraq with the U.S. Army. 

Dojo / Class Information
Classes are very personalized with a large amount of individual attention and customized instruction.

Typical class:

• Stances, punches, blocks, and kicks
• Demonstration of a particular topic or technique
• Train the topic or technique
• Train kata (forms)

Additional training:

• Pad work – chest pads for giving and receiving punches
• Bogu gear training (full contact gear)
• Weapons – chizikunbo, tonfa, jo, sai, manji sai, kama

Areas of interest:

• Customized training depending upon the students areas of interest

Bogu Kumite

Bogu Kumite is the Zensekai Karate Kobujitsu Renmei version of full contact sparring.

The head gear is similar to Kendo gear and will prevent serious injury from strikes to the head.

In class the gear is used for training more than Ippon Kumite or one point sparring.  Putting the gear on helps students to understand the importance of blocking and to get the feeling of being hit.

Just because the gear is on does not mean that full contact is being used but it is a way to put training to a higher test when you know the training partner will hit you in the head if you don’t block.

As with everything in class the level of intensity will be adjusted to the students level.