Welcome Post University to the NAKF/NACKC!
Please join us in welcoming Post University to the NACKC family! Our newest club held their first practice the other day with founder James Stephen Lee and a group of visiting black belts to get things rolling. Welcome guys!...
Thank you for a Successful Spring 2025 Tournament!
Thanks to everyone for the great turnout and spirit at today’s NACKC April 2025 Tournament! Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. And thanks to our hosts at Clark University. See you all again soon!...
Remembering Special Training, 1978!
Thanks to Steve Palmer for sending along his record of Sensei Tabata’s Special Training on the Weekend of March 17, 18, 19 of 1978 held at Boston University. Steve was riding herd on the U Lowell Club and took notes. Looks like everyone made it through! [P.S. There’s another...
Pics: First Tufts University Practice of the Fall Semester
Looks like it was a great first workout for the Tufts University NACKC club tonight, with Sensei Jordan Berry back for another great year! Keep at it!...
Remembering the Tufts Club: 1967-1969
We got a great comment on one of our YouTube videos recently and with permission of the author, Martha Grant, we thought we’d share it and a selection of the subsequent email exchange with everyone! The comment was on the video “Shotokan Karate Master Kazumi Tabata Early Footage Partner...
Carnegie Mellon University Mumon Karate Club Promotion!
The Mumon karate club at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh conducted a kyu test on April 27. Godan Mark Weingarden, Yodan Chuck Moyes and Nidan Doug Gilbert led the test. Congratulations to the following students: Ela Gulsen-3rd Kyu and Alan EsQuenazi -3rd, yu, Dewang Sun-3rd Kyu, Sebastian Garcia-6th Kyu,...
Tufts University Karate Club Promotees!
Congratulations to the two new yellow belts and their Sensei. Last workout of the semester. See you in the fall!...
Tufts University Club: Pics from Practice Feb. 1
Here are a few pics of the club having a great training at Remis Sculpture Court on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Hope to see even more folks there this next Wednesday!...
Video: NACKC College Karate Tournament, 1988
Thanks to BU alum Steve Kemball-Cook for sending along this video of the April 1988 NECKC (now NACKC) college tournament. What schools were there? We think we see BU, Tufts, BC, MIT, WNEC, ULowell, Fitchburg, UMass Dartmouth…who else? Let us know! The tournament was held at Tufts’ Cousens Gym....
Trinity Catholic Academy Kids Receive Their Uniforms and Patches!
Congratulations to the kids at Trinity Catholic Academy in Southbridge, MA who got their uniforms and NACKC (they’re college bound, after all!) patches the other day. Congratulations as well to Gregory Cumings who taught this free program on behalf of the NAKF/NACKC. The kids look great!...