The English Contact Karate Association is a Karate/Kickboxing organisation with over 100 well-established academies. All instructors are Black belts with governing body qualifications. Instructors hold regular gradings normally at tri monthly intervals. The organisation is responsible for five karate and full contact champions.
The ECKA teaches both full and semi contact fighting and holds regular competitions as well as competing in the Nationals every year.
In grade order ECKA follows this belt colour hierarchy: Red, White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple, Blue, Brown, 1st Kyū, and finally Black.
ECKA is a member of the English Karate Federation, a member of the World Karate Federation.
Famous quotes containing the words english, contact, karate and/or association:
“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Since mothers are more likely to take children to their activities—the playground, ballet or karate class, birthday parties—they get a chance to see other children in action.... Fathers usually don’t spend as much time with other people’s kids; because of this, they have a narrower view of what constitutes “normal” behavior, and therefore what should or shouldn’t require parental discipline.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)