Ultimate Karate USA is located in a 5,000 square foot training facility that teaches some of the world’s most advanced martial arts. Our academy has state of the art equipment including a full-size Zen mediation room where concentration and psychic self-defense is taught along with how to establish a regular meditation practice. We also have a full size steel cage octagon ring where students are trained in cage fighting.

The school is a progressive facility believing in training its students in the most advanced methods ever devised. Ultimate Karate USA is always on the cutting edge of the martial arts world. We believe in leading the way rather than following old and tired trends. In addition to our world class training and facility Ultimate Karate USA has one of the most successful fighting teams representing the country.

Having fought in and won in world events, Ultimate Karate USA’s students have won gold in Karate (both full contact and point) as well as Tae Kwon Do. Our students are now registered full contact kick boxers fighting out of the USKBA. We also have students training for MMA events such as Pride and the Ultimate Fighting Championships.
However what we are most noted for is not competition but the most intense street fighting and self-defense training in the country. Students learn how to fight from their feet to the ground in four ranges of combat. Students are taught in an environment that is alive and never stagnant. They learn in realistic scenario based training that encompasses what they are going to most likely encounter in the street. This ensures that our students are always prepared for anything that might occur.

Sensei Richard Garica has over 15 years total martial arts experience and is considered one of the most well versed and innovative teachers as well as fighters in the country. Richard Garcia is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, holds a 4th degree black belt in American Karate-do, is a certified full instructor in Jeet Kune Do as well as the Filipino martial arts. He is the founder of American Shotokan Systems, and Latin American Artes de Combate. Sensei Richard has fought internationally in Ireland and London and is one of New York’s top law enforcement officer trainers.

Sensei Richard Garcia became on of the few and proud Full Instructors of Sifu Paul Vunak’s Progressive Fighting System in late 2005. PFS is one of the worlds most recognized and respected organizations training Navy Seals, DEA, FBI, and police units across the country. PFS founder Paul Vunak was recently named one of the 20 most dangerous street fighters on the planet according to Black Belt Magazine.

Savate is a French Kickboxing style with a unique emphasis on adding kicks aimed with the toes and an unusual ability to kick while jammed. Ultimate Karate USA integrates this unique martial as one of its main martial arts styles.

Ultimate Karate USA is the only school in the country to add an integrated Latin American martial arts program to its curriculum. Styles include Cocobale (Puerto Rico), Mani (Cuba), Caribbean Machete fighting, Baratero Navaja fighting, Macana war club fighting, as well as Argentian Esgrima criolla knife-fighting are part of this curriculum.

With a strong basis of Gichen Funakoshi’s original Shotokan, Karate updated to American standards at our school. The American Shotokan Systems as developed by Sensei Richard Garcia provides a wonderful martial art and American makeover. Great for children as well as adults, American Shotokan increase confidence and awareness. The new Shotokan utilizes modern stances, new kick deliveries, and teaching methods. Modern punching in lieu of the traditional karate punches that don’t work in the street or the ring are used. The system adopts more mobile footwork; its fighting principal being more that of a present day professional fighter. With Shotokan Karate as its father, American Shotokan Systems integrates power sweeping techniques, and blocks that in and of itself are designed to stop an attack. American Shotokan systems also adoptes double blocking and striking instead of the traditional blocks and counters of Old Shotokan. American Shotokan Systems manages to preserve the integrity of Sensei Gichen Funakoshi’s idea of Karate being a way of life for the new millennium.

“Ultimate Karate USA is proud to announce that Sensei Richard Garcia received full instructorship in the martial arts of Jeet Kune Do and Filipino fight arts under world-renowned expert Paul Vunak. The certification was awarded on December 29th, 2005.

Ultimate Karate USA is now an official member of the Progressive Fighting Systems organization. PFS is world organization that promotes integrated martial arts such as Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Arts, as well as the hand-to-hand combat systems of the Navy Seals and law enforcement agencies. PFS is one of Jeet Kune Do's largest and prestigious organizations in the world. ( www.fighting.net ) Individual and group training in JKD concepts is available at Ultimate Karate USA. Contact us for additional information on certification programs.”

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One of the worlds most deadly and effective martial arts in the world, Ultimate Karate USA offers authentic Filipino martial arts. We provide lessons in Kali stick and knife fighting, Dumog body control, and Kina Mutai biting to improve any martial artist’s arsenal with or without weapons. Sensei Richard is a certified full instructor under Paul Vunak in Filipino Martial Arts.

Vale Tudo is a Brazilian anything goes martial art. Our style of Vale Tudo includes Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Catch wrestling, Chinese fast wrestling, and Judo. It includes total body submission, ground and pound tactics, and full grappling body positioning. Our version of Vale Tudo also integrates kickboxing, techniques as well as dirty boxing tactics.

Muay Thai kickboxing is the most powerful kickboxing style worldwide. Devastating elbows, knees, and kicks make this style a necessary component of any good martial arts school. Muay Thai prepares students for both the ring and the street.

Jeet Kune Do is both a concept of fighting and a personal fighting system created by Bruce Lee. Ultimate Karate USA teaches JKD in both capacities. Understanding the four ranges of combat, use of the straight lead, and using no way as the way, students learn how to truly progress in the martial arts as it serves them individually. Ultimate Karate USA uses Bruce Lee’s example of absorbing what is useful adds techniques from all over the world into its teaching of JKD. This includes fighting techniques developed in Africa, Greece, the United States military, and Ireland to name a few. Richard Garcia is certified full instructor in JKD under Sifu Paul Vunak.

Tae Kwon Do is both a martial art and martial sport of Korean origin. Encompassing fast action kicks, lighting fast stance changes and amazing fitness, TKD is the most popular martial art in the world. Ultimate Karate USA teaches
The Moo Duk Kwan, style of TKD as passed down from the late and great Grand Master Tiger San Soo Kim.

Ultimate Karate USA teaches freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling under the guidelines of USA Wrestling. As a sport, wrestling provides amazing, challenges for children and adults across the country. Ultimate Karate USA is one of the few martial arts teaching authentic USA Wrestling. Ultimate Karate has support from an NCAA All American, and San Francisco State champion.

Wing Chun is a classical Chinese martial art developed by a woman of the same name. It is unique in that is a close quarters combat systems, that favors sensitivity over strength. It utilizes fast action hand strikes, low line kicks, and elbow, and knee strikes. Wing Chun is made popular due to the fact that it was the first martial art practiced by Bruce Lee.