Welcome to the combined BHSKC & WCSKC Web site

Welcome to the combined home for Birmingham & Halesowen Shotokan Karate Club and Weoley Castle Shotokan Karate Club. Originally born from Shihan Cyril Cummins’ BHSKC Weoley Castle Dojo, Weoley Castle Shotokan initially grew under the guidance of one of Shihan Cummins’ senior students, Sensei Susan Hession under his BHSKC umbrella before becoming fully independent with Sensei Hession as it’s Chief Instructor in the last year. Students of both clubs have for many years trained and graded together as part of the overall BHSKC family and this continues today. With the passing of Shihan Cummins Sensei Hession has assumed the mantle of Chief Instructor for both BHSKC and WCSKC and whilst both clubs still exist as distinct entities continuing the long tradition established with Shihan Cummins with BHSKC as one of the longest running Shotokan karate clubs in the Midlands and the success had since it’s foundation of WCSKC both clubs have come together under one roof both symbolically with the shared Chief Instructor and physically with the Longbridge Dojo housing both clubs.  To symbolise this coming together under one Chief Instructor and to provide a single web site for all club information going forward we are in the process of combining some aspects of the web sites. However all the memories, posts and information from the original BHSKC site will remain available as a legacy site in remembrance of Shihan Cummins these can be found at the new address of legacy.birminghamshotokan.com

To bring in this new era the badges for both clubs have been redesigned and combined to symbolise the coming together of the two clubs and form a single badge for the combined BHSKC & WCSKC.