ABOUT US
Cocoa Beach Karate School teaches safe, traditional and authentic Matsubayashi-Ryu (Shorin-Ryu) Karate-Do to students aged 7 and up.
Founded in 2002 by WMKA 6th degree black belt, Sensei Des Chaskelson, Renshi, the school is a full member of the World Matsubayashi-Ryu (Shorin-Ryu) Karate-Do Association (WMKA) in Naha, Okinawa, with branches throughout the world.
Some of the many benefits of karate training: self-defense, assault prevention, physical fitness, focus, discipline, diligence, commitment, courtesy, respect, self-esteem, fun and more.
We welcome beginners, kids, teens and adults, and families — we were all beginners once!
We have a special kids program (age 7+ or younger if accompanied by an adult family member) and classes for older kids, teens and adults. We welcome families and offer special family discounts.
We are also active in the community and regularly conducts assault prevention and self defense seminars at no cost to locals, many of these in conjunction with the Cocoa Beach Police Department.
- For more info, call Sensei Des Chaskelson, 321.693.7831, or email senseides@yahoo.com
Some of the many recent press articles on our events and accomplishments can be found below:
ABOUT SENSEI CHASKELSON & CBK BLACK BELTS
Sensei Chaskelson, 6th Dan, with the honorary title of Renshi, began his karate training in 1987 in New York City with the Ansei Ueshiro Shorin-Ryu Karate USA group and trained there until moving to Cocoa Beach, Fl in 2002, when he founded Cocoa Beach Karate School. He was awarded his WMKA 5th degree black belt by Soke Takayoshi Nagamine in Naha, Okinawa, in 2010 at the 75th Anniversary of Matsubayashi-Ryu, the style founded by Soke’s father, O’Sensei Shoshin Nagamine, widely considered to be one of the fathers of modern day karate.
In 2016, Chaskelson Sensei was awarded his 6th degree black belt and title of Renshi in Okinawa by the World Matsubayashi Karate-do Assoc. Board: President Yoshitaka Taira, Hanshi, 10th Dan; Toshimitsu Arakaki, Hanshi, 10th Dan; Iwao Tome, Hanshi, 9th Dan & Shihandai Nobuhide Higa, Hanshi 9th Dan; Hanshi.
Other active CBK black belts who assist with the teaching include : Jason Christian, Raymond Baldino and Ryan Stack. Many young kids have trained with us for years and gone on to earn black belts and headed out to college and to their professions in life.