Loveday's One Heart Way

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Sensei, Roy Loveday
6420 Stormer Rd.
Knoxville TN 37918
865-922-1959
rlove131@aol.com

Senpai, John Tolliver
5804 Washington Pike
Knoxville TN 37918
865-687-8038
motobu@comcast.net

Welcome to Loveday's One Heart Way! We are a small traditional dojo that seeks to preserve the spiritual, mental, and physical aspects of Master Tatsuo Shimabuku's Isshin Ryu Karate Do.

	Class nights are Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:30 P.M. till 8:30 P.M.
	Cost is $35.00 per month per student
	It is requested that you come and observe at least one class if you are interested in signing up.
	There is no matching or sparring.
	We do not enter tournaments or encourage entering tournaments.
	We do not encourage competition between karate-ka.
	Students are expected to give 100% of themselves on what they are taught.

"I do not teach karate, because that alone is the art of empty hand fighting. I teach karate do, which is a way of life. The longer you are in this dojo the more you will understand the great difference between the two."

-Sensei Sherman Harrill-

"If there is a difference between what your heart and your head tell you to do follow the heart because the mind is confused."

-Anon.-

"What you are doing must be exactly what you are doing. Your mind can't be anywhere else except focused on what you are doing. There is only right now. This moment. There is nothing else. Nothing!

-Sensei Roy Loveday-

Isshin Ryu karate is a great system of self defense based on the natural posturing, and positioning of the body. It incorporates several unique characteristics including the vertical punch (thumb on top of fist vs. on the side), 50/50 hand and feet techniques, kobudo training incorporated in the karate curriculum, and a unique, in-depth way of looking at body mechanics.

During the course of learning Isshin Ryu not only will one learn to defend themselves, but they will also learn self discipline, self respect, respect for others, and a mental fortitude that comes from intense focus and continual training of the body, mind and spirit. The goal of Isshin Ryu is exactly as the name implies. One heart, One mind, One spirit.