Oh hey! Welcome, and/or welcome back! Great to see you. It’s been so long! But you haven’t aged a day…
Yes, you did it! you’re on the official page for SHOTORAMA! Thanks for coming 🙂
We always welcome old friends and new here at the internet’s best website for the grooviest cross-association festival of shotokan karate! Once again the team here at shotorama towers, the fictional gothic castle where the dojo is always open and there’s cake in the fridge, the excitement is building. The 2025 excitement. The pieces are falling into place, like some magical jigsaw that solves itself when you throw it out of the window. Somebody (me) has updated the website (find and replace all “24” with “25”), including some general changes and fixing at least one (1) typo. The process of sorting the lineup, the schedule, and the tickets will be coming in the next months, so if you don’t find what you’re looking for just yet, stick with us. Did we ever let you down before?
So. We hope you are all well; you’re doing a great job and we’re proud of you! The challenges of life keep coming, and even though you’re doing great, we know sometimes you need to kick back (or front, or side); maybe you need to join us at SHOTORAMA 2025! Golly gee wizzer, I hope you do! It might be just what you need, to come and share the martial art you love with the friendliest faces in town.
If you’ve been to SHOTORAMA before, you know it is never quite the same twice. New instructors, new schedule, and new friends that maybe you just didn’t meet yet. It’s all waiting for you; find out more as you explore and we update the website, but RIGHT NOW can block out this day in your calendar:
Sunday 21st September 2025
12:00 – 17:00
Guildford Spectrum
How could it be the same without you?!
SHOTORAMA is absolutely nothing less than a festival of shotokan karate and all its flavours, created and attended by your friends across the karate world. It’s an experience you just can’t get anywhere else.
“It really was a cracking day! We really enjoyed training and seeing so many new and familiar faces from all over the South”
Really, though, it will be ace! Read more about the event through this website via the menu, meet the instructors, read the detailed programme description and head over to the previous years (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024!) for pictures and listings from previous years to see what it is all about!
So why all this most excellent fuss?
Across the karate world, there are an enormous number of skilled and experienced karate instructors doing their thing at their own clubs, but too often we only get to be taught by the few that live nearby. Imagine what we could be missing! Over the years, at the special courses and squad trainings, we have made many friends – let’s start to bring them together!
Read the legend of how SHOTORAMA came to be, the story told in hushed and reverent tones by candlelight now for well over 5 years (6 years. And counting!).
It is our hope that SHOTORAMA will continue to be a place to celebrate our experienced instructors, to meet and play with our friends, and most of all to share that love of shotokan karate which – literally, as well as spiritually – brings us together.
Have a look around the site, and stay in touch (like us on our facebook page) for more details as we announce the schedule, instructor line up, session details, and more! Booking will be opening soon, so remember to sign up early! (You can use the big ol’ ticket button here for that)
Best wishes from the original SHOTORAMA team, right here at shotorama towers:
Avi Wolfsthal, Neil Jerome, John Parnell.
“Anything ‘-orama’ is fun.” – Jerry Seinfeld
SHOTORAMA! 