On 31 July 2025, dojoHUB became available worldwide.
One year later, this anniversary gives us a moment to pause — not only to look at what has been created, but also at everything that happens behind the videos and app screens.
dojoHUB started with a simple idea: to make Kyokushin knowledge easier to access, understand and use, wherever someone trains. It should help karateka continue learning between dojo classes, prepare for their next training session and explore perspectives they might not otherwise encounter.
The dojo, the Sensei and shared training remain at the heart of Kyokushin. dojoHUB was never intended to replace them. It was created to offer another place to review, practise, ask questions and stay curious.
Built by three people, shaped by many more
dojoHUB is built by the three of us: Carla, Ciril and Javi.
But from the beginning, it has been shaped by many more people. Experienced instructors have generously shared their knowledge. Our Senseis laid foundations that we continue to learn from. Testers have looked at new ideas with fresh eyes, while karateka around the world have sent questions, observations and feedback that have helped us improve.
Every contribution adds another perspective. This is important because Kyokushin knowledge does not belong to one person, one dojo or one organisation. It lives through the people who train, teach, question, share and continue developing it.
What happens before a video reaches dojoHUB?
From the outside, dojoHUB may first appear to be a collection of training videos. Behind every finished video, however, there is a much longer process.
Part of our ambition is to build a comprehensive collection covering all Kyokushin kata and kihon techniques. As for the kihon part, we are not there just yet, but we continue working towards it — one technique and one carefully structured explanation at a time.
At the same time, dojoHUB was never meant to contain only our own knowledge. We want it to bring together the experience and perspectives of as many different instructors as possible. This is where another kind of creative journey begins.
Before a recording session, we exchange ideas with the instructor, explore how a topic could be approached and shape it into a format that can genuinely help someone learn. The instructors we have worked with have always arrived exceptionally well prepared, and we have never had to repeat a recording because the content itself was not ready.
What often happens instead is that the conversation creates more than we planned. An explanation leads to another question, a detail inspires an additional video or a new connection becomes visible while we are filming. Some of our recording sessions have therefore produced extra content that was never on the original schedule - and every session leaves us with a new list of topics we would love to explore together in the future.
After filming, the work continues through editing, descriptions, learning goals, subtitles, translations and the structure that connects individual videos to a wider training experience. Even after publication, the wider collection is never complete. Every new contribution can add another perspective, reveal a useful connection or inspire the next subject to explore.
That process can be slow. But it is also one of the most meaningful parts of building dojoHUB, because creating learning material constantly challenges us to look more closely and keep learning ourselves.
Built on a longer tradition
dojoHUB did not begin from nothing.
Since the 1980s/90s, technical Kyokushin and kata have had a deep tradition within the Swiss community in which we grew up. Our Senseis invested great care in documenting knowledge, developing new ways to present it and passing it on to the generations that followed.
The books and handwritten notes we still use today are part of that journey. Some books captured Kyokushin knowledge in the best form available at the time. Others contain hundreds of annotations gathered through years of training, seminars and international exchange — including the time we spent studying kata with experienced instructors such as Brian Fitkin Shihan.
This knowledge was never static. It continued to develop through practice, teaching, competition, questions and encounters with karateka from different countries and backgrounds.
dojoHUB is our way of building on that foundation with the possibilities of today: bringing carefully reviewed knowledge into a structured digital learning experience that can reach karateka far beyond our own dojo.
We are deeply grateful to have grown within this tradition and to be able to make our own contribution to it.
Why the work will never be finished
We do not see dojoHUB as a finished collection of answers — and certainly not as the only truth.
Kyokushin has shared foundations, but there are also recognised differences between instructors, dojos and organisations. A technique may be explained differently, a kata detail may vary or another instructor may use a different image to make the same principle understandable.
These perspectives do not automatically weaken the knowledge. Often, they deepen it.
Just like our own training, our understanding continues to evolve. Every instructor, seminar, question and perspective can reveal something new. dojoHUB should therefore continue learning, revisiting and improving with us.
Our aim is not to end the conversation, but to make trustworthy knowledge more accessible while encouraging karateka to remain curious, reflect on what they practise and continue the conversation with their own instructors and fellow karateka.
The next chapter
As dojoHUB begins its second year, we are preparing one of the platform's biggest developments so far: a completely new, dedicated kata section.
It has grown from the same process of studying, discussing, structuring and refining. Rather than treating a kata only as one complete performance, the new experience is designed to make its individual movements and transitions easier to explore and understand.
We will share more very soon.
For us, however, the new kata section is not a final answer. It is the next contribution to a much longer journey — and the beginning of dojoHUB's second year.
A new chapter for this blog
This anniversary also marks a new direction for the dojoHUB blog.
Until now, many posts have focused on events and updates. These stories will still have their place, but we want the blog to become something more: a growing source of useful Kyokushin knowledge.
In the months ahead, we plan to share technical insights, practical training ideas, questions raised by the community, different recognised perspectives and honest glimpses into what we learn while creating dojoHUB. We also want to explore the wider questions karateka encounter throughout their journey — from taking the first step into a dojo to continuing to develop after many years of training.
We hope this blog can become another place to learn, reflect and stay connected with Kyokushin.
One year behind us — and still so much to learn, create and share.
Thank you to every instructor who has contributed, every karateka who has trained with dojoHUB and everyone who has supported, questioned, recommended or helped us improve it along the way.
Osu.
July 31, 2026