Mr. Jason Griffiths WKKA President, WKA Welsh President, Member of the World Karate and Kickboxing Association, Member of Freestyle Sport Karate Association. Mr. Griffiths is the Weapons Co-ordinator for theWelsh Karate and Kickboxing Association.

Member of the newly formed Martial Art Olympics Association

Jason founded the martial art centre 18 months ago and has gone from strength to strength with recruiting many martial art athletes.

Jason started his martial art career with Mr. Clifton Brown of the Welsh Contact Karate Association, and went on to form the Elite School of Martial Arts, which was initially based at Western Leisure Centre, Ely, Cardiff. He then took over a major refurbishment task in creating a centre of excellence for talented martial artists.

Although the centre is open to those who are talented, it also offers programs suitable for complete beginners from the age of 4 years.

Here is just a bit about us. We started up in late 2005, studying freestyle martial arts, which means we study in more than 2 different martial arts but the main two we study are Karate and Kickboxing, these martial arts techniques are explained further below.

We also study other techniques including:-

- Floor Moves

- Pressure points

- Hand, Arm and Wrist locks

- Weapons

and self defence too.

  Karate at WKKA

"Karate" translated means "Empty Hand". Consisting of mainly strikes and kicks used in strong defensive and offensive situations. Most Karate systems consist of 70% hand techniques and 30% kicking techniques.

This style also emphasizes strenuous workout to strengthen the body, due to the fact that the body should be able to with stand a strike or kick.

Karate also places importance on stances creating a strong foundation for techniques and self-defence moves.

In the late 19th century Karate was introduced to Japan but it was not taught to the public until 1923 when the first Karate Dojo "Shotokan" was established by Master Funikoshi.