Our Goal at Southern Indiana Karate is to unlock the potential of each student.
We don’t just build Black Belts, We Build better people.
Finally a family activity that’s great for everyone!
If you are looking for more than just another activity your kids. Something that will give them valuable life skills like confidence, self discipline and focus but where they will have tons of FUN!
The base of what we teach is ITF Taekwondo but in an old style that is distinctly different from modern Olympic Taekwondo. The result is Taeknowdo that resembles Kyokushin or Shotokan.
The center characters translate to “Empty Cup” This is a martial arts and life philosophy that forms the root of what we teach.
Consider everything you know about any subject was held in a tea cup. A tea cup can hold quite a bit of liquid but once it’s full it’s easy to overflow. When you approach life with a teacup full of knowledge you can’t learn anything new. What if, instead, you were to empty your cup into a greater reservoir of knowledge? Then you can approach every situation with an empty cup… Ready to lean, grow, and be filled.
Even if you already know something, there’s always room to grow, stretch, and fill an empty cup.
An empty cup isn’t an unthinking mind that is swayed by every thing that comes it’s way, but it is a mind that is able to weigh the old vs. the new and balance between the two. The empty cup is a mind that can be challenged, that can grow, and that can overcome.
The Surrounding leaves represent personal growth through martial arts training.
Master Rob Killebrew has been training in Martial Arts since age 9. He began teaching full-time at the age of 17 and taught professionally for a further 15 years. In that time, he specialized in Children and Family martial arts training, as well as adult self-defense. He holds a 5th degree black belt in Taekwondo and has training in Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Judo, Hapkido, Kickboxing, and Silat.