Welcome to the Ole Miss Karate Club

 

We meet on Monday and Thursday from 6:00 to 7:30;

At the Exercise Room inside the South Residential College;

We study Isshin-ryū Karate. Which includes but is not limited to the following:  basics, kata, self-defense, various weapons training, and an annual seminar with A.J. Advincula.

Head Instructor – Dan O’Sullivan – dosulliv@olemiss.edu

Advisors – Cherry Watkins – cherry@olemiss.edu and Scott Watkins – Scott@phy.olemiss.edu

About us…

The Ole Miss Karate Club was founded in the 1975 fall semester by Mr. Bob Nance and Tony Giardina. The club has been located in various places on campus; the education school gymnasium, a classroom in the Turner Center (it was fun moving the desks around to practice kata), the gymnastics room in the Turner Center, the first aid room in the Turner Center and our current location in the multipurpose room in the Residential College. Over the years we have evolved into a club whose members don’t particularly want to participate in tournaments (although, in past years we have produced several state champions in both kata and sparring), rather, we train to improve our health and increase our awareness of self-defense. Our “dojo” is our laboratory where we experiment with our ideas.