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
• USA National Championship and Team Qualifiers, Reno, Nevada
• IMA Annual Championship in Utah, Northwest Recreation Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Intermountain Karate Championship, Park City, Utah
• IMA Rocky Mountain Karate Championship, Louisville, Colorado
• IMA North Fork Karate Championship, Grand Junction, Colorado
• Colorado State Championship, Eagle, Colorado.

IMA- International Budokan Shotokan Karate was founded in 2001 by Shihan 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
• Northwest Community Center, Salt Lake City, UT
• Draper Recreation Center, Draper, 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, Draper, Holladay, Harvard Yale, Yalecrest, Liberty Park, Mount Olympus, Sandy, East Bench.

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