Schedule
	Prices Initial Fee for first month: $129 (includes gi and belt)       -$99.00 per Month   Yearly $999.00 (Savings of $69/yr) One-time guest : $15.00 (must have white gi)
	Instructor - Daryl Rappold Daryl started training karate in 1990 at LKA in Metairie.  He earned his black belt in the fall of 1998.  While attending LSU Daryl was a member of the Karate Club @ LSU competition team.  From 1998-2000 the LSU team consistently placed in the top three in local and national tournaments for both kata and kumite team events.  In addition to competing, Daryl taught beginning level karate to kinesiology students in 2000 and 2001.  After receiving his bachelors degree in business management in 2001, Daryl entered the work force in retail management.  In 2007 he resumed his training at LKA and earned his second degree black belt in 2008.  Daryl is also a new proud father of Lily, a beautiful baby girl.
	History Karate is the general term for the martial art which developed over several centuries on the island of Okinawa, south of mainland Japan.  It is a discipline which emphasizes blocks, strikes, and kicks, but which can also incorporate throws and joint locks.  In the early 20th century, Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957) was the first of several instructors to introduce karate to mainland Japan.  He and his followers developed the shotokan style of karate, and founded the Japan Karate Association (JKA) in 1949.  The JKA became the most famous karate organization world-wide, and began to export karate to the rest of the world in the 1960’s, by sending its highest quality instructors to teach and reside in different parts of the world. New Orleans was one of the locations chosen to have a JKA instructor, and in the 1960s, Master Takayuki Mikami, who now resides and teaches in Metairie, was sent here to represent the JKA.  Our national organization is the Japan Karate Association American Federation (JKAAF), which still maintains direct connection with the world organization headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.  Two of the founders of Studio Zen, including the karate instructor, are direct students of Master Mikami, and train with him on a regular basis.

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