What’s New

DVD’s Now Available as Online Videos for Customers who bought the Original Set

MyEssential Teaching Guide to Okinawa Goju Ryu’  DVD series is now available Online for those who purchased the original DVD set for a Once-off Registration fee of USA$10 for 24/7 access

The Videos are condensed  into 15 online volumes – easy to Pause, Rewind, Start, from your phone, tablet, or PC! View clips of the contents of each volume on my YouTube channel  – @bakkieslaubscher367

HERE’S WHAT YOU DO:
Non-Virtual Dojo Members:
1. Send me an email at bakkieslau@icloud.com with your full Name and Surname and a picture of the set you originally purchased
2. You will then get details for my PayPall account to pay the USA$10 registration fee into
3. When payment is reflected, you will receive complete access  4.  You then register on my website using your own login, password, etc. and have 24/7 access to the videos

Virtual Dojo Members:
My Virtual Dojo Members do not pay the registration fee! 
Just follow step 1 above – i.o.w. – send me an email!
Thanking you and hope it helps to make the videos more accessible!

I recently added a weekly Sensei Bakkies Explaining Goju Ryu Karate’ addition to my YouTube channel, with pointers on ‘How‘ and ‘ Why’ we do things (and sometimes ‘How Not’, ‘Why Not!’)- Please visit, Like and Subscribe

My Global Virtual Dojo into it’s Fifth Year! Serious Okinawan Goju Ryu practitioners worldwide enjoying training, discussions, insights, guidelines from my 60 +years of Karate training! Not a member yet? Visit https://www.traditionalschoolofkarate.com for a Free Ten Day Trial

Coming soon on my Virtual Dojo – Online Beginner Courses -from White to Black Belt!

Classes from my Dojo by Myself uploaded Weekly, ready to use for members at own convenience.

Short Clips of my Virtual Dojo Classes

Short clips of the weekly classes from my Honbu Dojo

Class focussed on Sanbon waza – moving skills, applying in Yakusoku Kumite and Seiyunchin Ojo Bunkai


With uncertainty and instability still current worldwide, my Global Virtual Dojo is up and running with a wealth of knowledge available online to serious members, 24/7, access from anywhere worldwide!

Already more than 135 complete classes, actual classes recorded live in my Dojo, are available for members to use anytime, anywhere, as much as they want to! Every week a new class – three condensed videos covering the entire class – is uploaded for members

Already seventeen monthly Q and A sessions with topics such as: ‘Breathing and turnaround in Higaonna Kanryo’s Sanchin’, ‘Explain Nun-De in the kata’s Sepai, Pechurin‘, ‘Explain history of Kakie‘, ‘Superinpei could you offer some information about  GO, JU & GE (GO/JU?) mode’, ‘The mix of Heishughata, Kaishughata in our Kata, especially Suparinpei, can you show and explain more ?’ The importance of the Ganka and many more – all available afterwards on video in the Library.

Interview with Okinawan Times 27 March 2022

Newspaper 27 March 2022Okinawan Times

OKINAWAN TIMES INTERVIEWEnglish Transcript of the Article,

In Pursuit of Excellence Podcast Series

After Pursuing Excellence in my journey on the road of Traditional Karate for almost six decades, I am sharing experiences from this journey and other relevant information in a series of free, fortnightly Podcasts – the ‘In Pursuit of Excellence’, series, hoping that it will help as a road map for the serious to find the way to the essence of pure Traditional Karate.

Please enjoy and don’t forget to Review and Rate and feel free to leave a comment on the Podcast Page

Listen on iTunes or Spotify or visit Blog Page