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Kazen, translates into English as ‘natural result’. This encompasses the spirit we adopt when practicing martial arts. With hard work and dedication, natural results will be accomplished. Kai translates into English as ‘School’. Therefore, Kazen Kai is the school of natural results.
The word Karate translates into English from Japanese as ‘empty hand’. This directly means learning to fight without any weapons and using only the empty hand.
‘Karate do’ (pronounced doe) translates into English as the ‘way of karate’ and summarises the attitude which one is expected to adopt in order to train and dedicate oneself to karate do.

The Chief Instructor of Kazen Kai is Sensei Simon Kidd. .
Sensei Simon Kidd. commenced training in 1972 under the guidance of his late father Sensei Fred Kidd and Sensei Timmy Francis at the Barking and Dagenham Ishinryu Karate Club.
During his competitive career Sensei Kidd has represented both Great Britain and England at both Junior and Senior level and has won numerous individual and team titles in both Kata and Kumite, including several National Titles. The highlight of his competition career was winning gold as a member of the Great Britain team in the World Championships in 1988.
In 2001, Sensei Kidd was honoured with the prestigious award of ‘Coach of the Year’ by Brentwood Borough Council in recognition of his impressive coaching career.
In 2007 Sensei Simon Kidd was awarded his 6th Dan.

The Kazen Kai Martial Art Association was formed in 2001, when Sensei Kidd and his other instructors felt that the time had come for them to leave the Ishinryu Karate Association and to further develop their own style of teaching. Since then Kazen Kai has gone from strength to strength and in 2002 we opened our first fulltime Martial Arts Centre in Hutton Brentwood.

At Kazen Kai we practice traditional Karate with our grading system, WKF competition karate with our squad sessions and Kick Boxing (full contact karate).

Kazen Kai is one of the founder members of the English Karate Federation, which is the National Governing Body for Karate in England, with one our senior Instructors Sensei David Wilson a member of the board of the EKF.