Our students not only train in traditional Shotokan, with the use of basics (kihon), forms (kata), and sparring (kumite), but they also achieve great success in local, national, and international karate tournaments. The pictures in this gallery are just a small sample.

Local karate tournament locations include: Salt Lake City, Utah, Park City, Utah, Cottonwood Heights, Utah, West Valley City, Utah, Sandy, Utah,

National and international karate tournaments include:

• USA Open Karate Championships, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Ozawa Cup International Karate Tournament, Pink Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada
• IMA Utah Family Tournament, Cottonwood, Salt Lake Valley, UT
• IMA North Fork Karate Championship, Grand Junction, Colorado
• IMA Rocky Mountain Karate Championship, Louisville, Colorado

IMA- International Budokan Shotokan Karate was founded in 2001 by Sensei Amadou Niang. His vision was to bring traditional Japanese karate training to everyone by offering karate classes and karate compeition classes at recreation centers throughout Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley.

Karate classes and karate competition training are offered throughout the Salt Lake Valley, Utah, at:

• Redwood Recreation Center in West Valley City, UT
• Central City Recreation Center in downtown Salt Lake City, UT
• Montessori Community School on the east bench
• Centenary United Methodist Church in Sugar House, UT

This provides karate training and karate competition classes for communities such as: Downtown Salt Lake, Salt Lake Valley, West Valley, Sugar House, Millcreek, Canyon Rim, Cottonwood, Indian Hills, Emigration Canyon, Parleys Canyon, Glendale, The Avenues, Murray, Holladay, Harvard Yale, Yalecrest, Liberty Park, Mount Olympus, East Bench.

Watch Sensei Amadou Niang slice a can of soda cleanly in half!
Watch it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQlhDkw4I0