Apart from being a venue for practising Karatedo techniques, a dojo is also an important training base for fostering wholesome integrity and virtue. The following are some rules that should be followed in our training:
- Respect and obey your instructors.
- Be friendly and helpful to your counterparts.
- Greet your instructors and counterparts with correct manner.
- Keep your appearance and uniforms clean and tidy; approved mitts and protectors should be brought to dojo for training.
- Accessories are prohibited; keep your fingernails short and clean; long hair should be tied up.
- Be punctual for classes; absence from class should be supported by sound reasons.
- Notify your instructors when you feel sick or get hurt.
- Bow to the dojo before entering and leaving dojo.
- Observe and practise the “Rei” ceremony before and after training.
- Be serious and give your best effort in training.
- Say “Osu” in response to instructor’s instructions to express your willingness of doing the best.
- Never leave the dojo without permission of your instructors.
- Sitting should either be in kneeling position or bending legs across in front.
- Always keep dojo clean.
- No eating, no drinking of alcohol and no smoking in the dojo.
- No mobile phone in the dojo; turn off ring tone of your mobile phone.
- No foul language in the dojo.
- No martial art technique other than Shitoryu Karatedo in the dojo.
- Brute courage and retaliation are strictly prohibited.
- Private combat and deliberate injury caused to opponent are strictly forbidden.