Tiska Karate Basics

The Official TISKA / AHK Shotokan Karate Beginners Grading Syllabus.

This fantastic instructional beginners app in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format, takes the complete beginner through to their blue belt grading. The deal to get started with karate.

Find out about Tiska and the person behind the app

Ursharan Sahota was born in Kenya, East Africa but moved to the UK at the age of 12. He took up Karate at the age of 14 in the local Bedford club, and was awarded black belt 1st dan (shodan) four years later. Now a 7th dan, Gursharan has competed in a multitude of kata and kumite events, many at national and international level. But the most significant event in his career was the visit he made in 1984 to Japan. There, he fulfilled a great ambition by training in a japanese dojo under the instruction of Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa.

Now a 7th dan, Gursharan has competed in a multitude of kata and kumite events, many at national and international level. But the most significant event in his career was the visit he made in 1984 to Japan. There, he fulfilled a great ambition by training in a japanese dojo under the instruction of Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa.