Charity Karate Tournament set for today at the Salgado Community Center

Come help support the Adlawan Cup Food Drive Tournament, hosted by the Te-Kenjutsu-Kan Karate-Do Organization.

All food and competition fees go to the WisePlace a shelter for women in Santa Ana. The Spectator fees go to help support their students for future tournaments. The snack bar funds go towards their Adlawan – Manson Scholarship Foundation.

The event will be held today at the Salgado Community Center, in Santa Ana, located at 706 North Newhope Street.

What is Karate

There is no simple answer to this question. It is an art with many facets like an intricately cut precious stone. Self-defense is the unifying theme of Karate. All of the training techniques are designed to make the body strong and hard, reflexes quickened and the head, hands, fingers, elbows, knees and other parts of the body conditioned in techniques of defense and offense.

The sole reason Karate is a defensive art is that because the blocking techniques are so highly developed, in an actual situation; properly executed blocking techniques will painfully warn the opponent not to pursue his attack further.