Programs
Warrior Roots
Reviving Indigenous fighting traditions through culture, pride, and practice
As a part of the Strongest Karate banner, Warrior Roots is a professional development initiative that honours the universal warrior spirit. This program offers instructors and practitioners a means to delve into the profound interrelation of martial arts, cultural identity, and ancestral heritage.
In the past and even in present times, all societies have led to the rise of the standard of the warriors which eventually gave birth to the systems of fighting. These systems were the result of the necessities, the discipline, and the defence of the community. Through education, practice, and cultural exchange, Warrior Roots aims at resurrecting these systems of fighting laid to rest by time.
The program pays tribute to the worldwide Indigenous martial legacies of such peoples as the Aboriginal nations of Australia and the Māori of Aotearoa, Pacific Island clans, Native American and First Nations peoples, and warrior societies in Africa and South America. The arts in many cases have been subjugated by colonisation and the ensuing displacement but the initial values of the arts such as courage, respect and unity survive.
Communities willing to revive, preserve and modify their fighting systems with the help of the Strongest Karate locations can get support from the Warrior Roots program that offers them organised training schedules, safety regulations, and school curriculum. The program helps communities use cultural knowledge, oral traditions, and traditional movement in their martial practice thus, not only protecting these arts, but allowing them to be the ever-changing, living, and strengthening of identity and resilience.
Warrior Roots is not merely a program, it is a worldwide movement. The linkage of instructors, elders, and communities is facilitated by the program thereby, it empowers the spirit of the warrior in each and every culture and takes forward the teachings which are the binding factors of the human race such as discipline, respect and the pursuit of strength with a noble purpose.