Canada's Best Karate Learning Centres are the finest you will find.  We are dedicated to making your Martial Arts experience enjoyable and satisfying. Our instructors are the best. They have studied and trained for years to qualify as part of the Canada's Best Karate Team, and their primary goal is to assist you in being the best you can be.

Our carefully structured programs go far beyond punching, blocking, and kicking. We will help you acquire effective self-defense skills and provide you with a comprehensive, personal development program. It is our goal to raise the quality of life for all our students in every way possible.

Although we honour Martial Arts traditions that go back centuries, we are dynamic and are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to enthuse and excite our students.

We pledge to make each student’s journey as fun, exciting, and educating as possible. We monitor progress closely and walk with students every step of the way. We believe that being a Martial Artist is not just learning to kick and punch, it is about becoming the best that you can be in every way.

10 Reasons to choose Canada's Best Karate

1. State-Of-The-Art Facilities: Our schools feature large, spaceous training rooms with wall-to-wall padded flooring for maximum safety.  We are fully outfitted with top quality training equipment for every student to be able to maximize their results.  Parent viewing areas are comfortable and allow full access to the action going on in class.  And we are fully air conditioned.
2. High Quality Instruction: Our students are taught by specially trained black belt intructors qualified to teach all ages, from 4 year olds up to adults.
3. Classes Offered 6 Days per Week: Our flexible class times means that you can choose the day and time that fits into your schedule.  As well, our unique system of class rotation means that you never have to worry about missing out on a valuable part of our curriculum.
4. Low Student:Instructor Ratio: We schedule our instructors to ensure that students get the attention they need to learn new skills and gain greater self-confidence.  Some classes feature student:instructor ratios as low as 5:1!
5. Character Education Lessons: Training at Canada's Best Karate is more than just kicking and punching - it's about learning life skills to enhance all areas of our students' development.  Programs such as our RESPONSIBILITY STARS, BLACK BELT DISCIPLINE assignments, and in-class lessons on developing "black belt" concentration present a consistent message to our younger students about the importance of concentration, discipline and integrity in society.
6. Bullies2Buddies/Street Safe Programs: We balance the physical side of martial arts training with the mental and emotional tools to help children protect themselves when they need it most.  Stranger danger, bully avoidance and internet safety are just a few of the topics discussed in class.
7. Personal Student Evaluations: We see all of our students as individuals, which is why our curriculum is structured to ensure that each and every student receives personal one-on-one time with an instructor to review their progress and help them keep moving forward.
8. Internet Training: As a Canada's Best Karate member, you have access to our private on-line training library which includes: video instruction, manuals and training tips to fully enhance your martial arts experience.
9. Free Private Lessons: Many clubs will try to "suppliment" their student fees by encouraging you to pay for extra lessons.  At Canada's Best Karate, we feel that if you need a little extra help then it should be for your benefit.  Our motto: when you succeed, we succeed!
10. Continually Improving Programs: Everything in our lives is advancing and improving; why should the martial arts be "stuck in the past"?  If there is a better way to teach our students then you can be sure that we will provide it to you!

You can read these testimonials from our students and their parents to see the "real life" results that students at Canada's Best Karate are getting.

Press Releases

Karate Students Collect 160 lbs of Candy!
CBK students donated their uneaten Halloween candy to raise awareness of childhood obesity...

November 3, 2010 | Read more>

9 New Black Belts at CBK!
Canada's Best Karate added nine new black belts to it's roster after a 2-day testing on the weekend... 

November 23, 2009 | Read more>

CBK Black Belt Cuts Hair for Cancer
Changing your hair style is usually a decision based on fashion.  Most of us don't make too radical a move when deciding on a new look.  Dylan Madeley, however, is not your typical person - he cut off all his shoulder-length hair in a day.... 

November 18, 2009 | Read more>

Seven New Black Belt + One Sempai!
Canada's Best Karate in Vaughan is very proud to announce that seven student advanced to the rank of black belt, as well as having one other student earn a 2nd degree black belt and title of "Sempai" (senior instructor)...

June 16, 2009 | Read more>

CBK student saves the life of a friend
Gessical Sementilli, a 10 year old CBK violet belt, showed how calm thinking and decisive action can be life-saving qualitites...

June 1, 2009 | Read more>

Students learn to turn "Bullies" into "Buddies"
Students at Canada's Best Karate are learning how to deal with that common school yard occurence - bullying - through a unique program called "Bullies To Buddies", which was featured on Global TV News Hour...

March 15, 2009 | Read more>

Steal-Proof Masters Program featured on Rogers TV
"Journey of the Steal-Proof Master", the stranger-danger program based on the feature film by the same name, was featured on Rogers TV in York Region today on the show "Daytime"...

February 19, 2009 | Read more>

Revolutionary Stranger-Danger Educational Seminar Taught at Canada's Best Karate
Canada's Best Karate becomes the first martial arts school in the Toronto area to teach the "Journey of the Steal-Proof Master" Program, a revolutionary stranger-danger educational tool speciffically designed for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years...

January 2, 2009 | Read more>

9 Year Old Leads New Group Of Black Belts
Four students from Woodbridge and Maple, including one 9 year old, completed a demanding 2 days of physical training, seminars and lectures to become the newest black belts at Canada's Best Karate...

November 16, 2008 | Read more>

CBK Student Teaches His School About True Meaning of Martial Arts
Canada's Best Karate student Peter Pasternak demonstrated the true values of martial arts training at his elementary school assembly along with his instructor Sensei Scott Bullard...

October 29, 2008 | Read more>