Welcome to Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School Member of Shindenkan Denmark
Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School
Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School is in everyday speech called JKBH, and is a karate school where there is room for everyone who wants to train karate, regardless of age and gender. Everyone is welcome, as a family, as an exerciser or as an elite athlete.
JKBH currently has 35 members, and has had a training room in Nørrebro Parkskole since 2016.
JKBH is a member of Shindenkan Denmark and through that of Shindenkan Scandinavia and Shindenkan Europe (Jokokan Europe), which is a member of the international non-political federations; Bujutsu Kodosoku-kai and Jokokan International, both of which have organizational headquarters in Japan.
Come with us on a journey
We meet you where you are and take you on a journey in traditional multi-track martial arts.
When you start at OS, you enter a traditional martial arts world — a traditional multi-lane martial arts world — built on 1,000 years of history and experience. A world far from the competitive world that characterizes sports today.
An education in traditional multi-track martial arts through holistic thinking, with a unique martial arts system in Yakami Shinsei-ryu Taijutsu & Karate-do, and a 100% structured curriculum manual.
Everyone is welcome regardless of age
Boys and girls – women and men – parents and children
Boys and girls – women and men – parents and children
Our Dojo
When you enter OUR Dojo (training hall), you will be welcomed by well-prepared and skilled instructors who will use all their skills to create a Dojo with:
Mutual respect and acceptance with room for everyone – adults and children – on the same team.
Very high skills in traditional multi-track martial arts.
Shindenkan value set.
We have room for everyone - the elite as exerciser
At Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School, we want to reflect the diversity in our society at all times, and this means that we always have room for EVERYONE who wants to train Yakami Shinsei-ryu Taijutsu & Karate-do. Regardless of age, gender and religion, you are welcome in Shindenkan as long as you respect others and our system, values and safety rules.
Our Family concept
Family concept - The Jokokan Karate schools run 100 % according to Shindenkan successful family concept, where children, teenagers and parents can train on the same team, which very few other sports and associations can offer!
There is room for everyone, and we are very proud of that 
Shindenkan recognized more than 30 years ago that there was a need for special supportive concepts for children and young people, to promote healthy self-confidence, self-esteem, mutual respect and acceptance of each other.
In collaboration with municipalities, psychologists, educators and our own extensive teaching experience, the very successful JokoKidz and JokoTeens concept was launched, developed and tested in various municipalities. The concept has been continuously updated with the latest new knowledge. The concept was expanded with Asperger and autism concepts.
Later stress concepts for everyone. We have also added a family concept developed for the modern needs of a busy and hectic everyday life. The concepts are very successful and over the years have been shared with many other sports organisations, federations and municipalities for the common joy and development of our children and young people.
We are really happy about that!
Our Katsu-Jin concept
Katsu-Jin - If you are over 50 and still want to train for life, you are welcome with us, because in the eyes of Shindenkan you are a role model. Life is what you make of it, and with us the glass is always half full! – Instead of half empty.
In Shindenkan, we take into account all the different phases of life, including the fact that we all get older. In order to contribute and support public health and quality of life, we encourage all our members to train throughout their lives.
Statistically many people over 50 say they are too old for martial arts. We say that today age is just a number, and your attitude to life is what matters.
We have therefore developed a concept that directly supports this - in all phases of life. Your age is taken into account, and you are supported in the fact that you can do much more than you and others tell you! Our Katsu-Jin concept has proven its success, and that is why we now have active, healthy and happy Yakami Shinsei-ryu practitioners in their 70s.
Those Katsu-Jin who achieve the brown or black belt are celebrated and recognized visibly, as hero or heroine during the major national joint events.
Yakami Shinsei-ryu - Multitrack Martial Arts
In our karate school, we train the 1,000-year-old traditional multi-track martial art called Yakami Shinsei-ryu. The multi-track means that we train all the disciplines of the Japanese samurai according to holistic thinking and through our structured curriculum manual, which applies to all member schools in Shindenkan. We therefore train both melee and ranged combat, we train with classic and modern weapons and, not least, we train personal development for all our members through value sets and empowerment with a focus on meeting our members where they are. All WE want from you is that you have an open mind and that you want to learn Yakami Shinsei-ryu Taijutsu & Karate-do.
Unarmed Combat
Unarmed combat means that we train you in understanding and skills in unarmed melee and ranged combat through the disciplines:
- Karate (distance combat)
- Jujutsu (Melee)
- Task Fighting
- Shakuasei, including
- Hsingi (power generation)
- Baqua (motion generation)
- Tai Chi (push hands)
Armed Combat
Armed combat means that we train you in understanding and skills in armed melee and ranged combat through the disciplines:
- Kenjutsu (sword)
- Iaijutsu (quick draw with sword)
- Kotachi (knife)
- yes (stick)
- Yari (spear)
- POMW (gun)
Personal development
Personal development means that we train you in understanding and skills in full-body training, meditation in movement, increased self-confidence and self-esteem, values and leadership through the disciplines:
- SKK and KataFIT
- Ki and Meditation
- History and Instructor training
- Tai Chi – 24 styles
- Shiatsu massage
We think we have the best instructors
So when you enter OUR Dojo (training hall), you will be welcomed by very positive, well-prepared and skilled instructors who meet you with a smile and Mutual respect and acceptance | Space for everyone – adults, teenagers and children | Very high skills in traditional multi-track martial arts.
They will all strive to be role models of Shindenkan's value set, and this means that i At JKBH there is room for everyone and special consideration is given to those who lead the way for others – role models over 50 and role models with an injury according to Arbejdsmarkedets Erhvervssikring's mental MED documentation – who carry a very special will in their heart.
Our Instructors
Jens Iversen
Chief instructor
Title: Jens Hanshi-dai
Graduated (2023):
Menkyo Omote
6th dan, Yakami Shinsei-ryu
6th degree Sr. Shindenkan Jikitai Karate-do
7th dan, BKK Gensei-ryu sports karate-do
Shogo; Hanshi-dai
Trained since 1974
1974 – 1979 Gensei-ryu Genshikan 2nd kyu.
Trained in Shindenkan since 1989
1 training camp in Japan and 5 in Denmark with Soke Tonegawa Sensei
300+ training sessions with Yamana-Itotani Sensei (from 1989+)
Background: Born 1961, 1 adult child (HA Stud)
Occupation: Account Delivery Executive
Education:
Diploma engineer (DTU)
Acupuncturist
Zone therapist
Electrician
MBA.Stud. – Master of Business Administration
Kjeld Nyrup
Team instructor
Title: Kjeld Renshi
Graduated (2024):
Joden Hiden
4th dan Sr., Yakami Shinsei-ryu
5th dan, Shindenkan Jikitai Karate-do
6th dan BKK Gensei-ryu sports karate-do
Shogo; Renshi
Trained since 1982
1982 – 1997 Gensei-ryu Genshikan 2nd Dan. Tournament experience: 600+ matches, 10+ different countries, 50+ medals, 2 x WC Bronze Japan.
Trained in Shindenkan since 1996
1 training camp in Japan and 2 training camps in Denmark with Soke Tonegawa Sensei 150+ training camps with Yamana-Itotani Sensei
Background: Born 1965, 2 teenage children
Occupation: IT Auditor Rigsrevisionen
Education: B. Computer Science.
Michael Nørgaard
Team instructor
Title: Shishó Michael
Graduated (2018):
1st dan, Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do
1st dan Sr., Shindenkan Jikitai Karate-do
3rd dan, BKK Gensei-ryu sports karate-do (Honoris)
Trained in Shindenkan since 2005
48 training sessions with Yamana-Itotani Sensei
Background: Born in 1960, 1 adult child (Stud Medio Teknik)
Occupation: Development and Network Manager, Volvo Denmark
Education:
Furniture machine joiner
Diploma engineer DTU
Adam Dolleris
Team instructor
Title: Shisho Adam
Graduated (2019):
1st dan, Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do
1st dan Sr., Shindenkan Jikitai Karate-do
2nd dan, BKK Gensei-ryu sports karate-do
Trained in Shindenkan since 2008:
Ayame: Kuroi – Black
POMW: Team 5 2019, course I-III 3.5 months
Background: Born 1995, Trained since 2008
Occupation: IT Specialist, Field Service
Education: Bsc. HA, Cand Stud Merc.
Elizabeth Bjarkmann
Asst. Team instructor
Title: Elisabet Shishu
Graduated (2015):
Shoden
2nd dan Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do
3rd dan Bujutsu Kodosokukai Karate-do
4th dan, Kodosokukai Gensei-ryu Karate-do
Trained in Shindenkan since 2003
Ayame: GOLDEN IRIS (2015)
Former Chief Instructor Jokokan Frederiksberg Karate School.
150+ training camps with Yamana – Itotani Sensei.
Background: Born 1995.
Occupation: Lawyer M&A, commercial and corporate law.
Education: Lawyer, Cand. Law..
Our Association
Our association is approved as a democratic association in the Municipality of Copenhagen under the Public Information Act with an independent CVR number and finances, and was founded in August 1989.
The highest authority in Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School is the general assembly.
We hold a general meeting at the same time each year. Here, the board of directors at the general meeting reviews all of the year's agenda items, among other things. last year's general meeting minutes, the chairman's report, the annual accounts with documentation, budget, proposals for the coming season and the like.
All agenda items go to a vote, and are thus approved or rejected at the general meeting in accordance with the applicable statutes and guidelines.
In addition, progress on a strategic level, progress in all work areas, elections to the board and, if necessary, are reviewed.
The board of directors of Jokokan København Karate School consists, according to the rules of Copenhagen municipality, of at least 4 members, who are elected from among the members at the annual general meeting after a democratic vote, for a 2-year period at a time.
Jokokan København Karate School works according to a 5-year strategic plan and the day-to-day running of the association is handled by the elected board with 6 regular board meetings per year according to a fixed agenda and with minutes from each meeting.
All work in the association is voluntary and unpaid for the benefit of the members of Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School and the local community. Over 90 % of all Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School's income is invested back into the members. The remaining 10 % are used for administration and organizational development. Any annual surplus is put into a pool for unforeseen expenses and future investments.
Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School was founded in 1989 and has existed for more than 35 years. For the first several years, the school had a dojo in the warehouse "Gimle" on Iceland's brygge.
SInce 2016, Jokokan København Karate School has had rooms at Nørrebro Park School right next to Assistens cemetery.
Our Board elected at the 2023 general meeting
Jens Iversen
Chairman
Michael Nørgaard
Cashier
Niels Sorensen
Board member
Kjeld Nyrup
Board member
Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School trains here
When you start at Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School, you enter a traditional martial arts world that is based on 1,000 years of history and experience. We meet you where you are and take you on a journey in traditional multi-track martial arts.
You will be received by well-prepared, committed and skilled instructors who will use all their abilities to create
Mutual respect and acceptance, with room for everyone – adults, teenagers and children.
We train here
The girls' gymnasium
Starts 17.00 - 18.30
Thursday
Practiced 18.30 - 20.00
Train real multi-track martial arts at Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School
We wish you the best start as a member of Jokokan Copenhagen Karate School, and therefore we always invite you to 3 free trial lessons so that you can experience our fantastic training atmosphere for yourself.
If you have already made up your mind, choose your membership and the subscription period that suits you best.
New teams
JOKOKAN Copenhagen Karate School always starts new teams in August and January, where students are admitted for a 4-month period respectively. August-November and January-April. Everyone is welcome regardless
age and sex
