Copper Country KI

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Director, Chief Instructor: Jay Maki

Staff Instructors: Henry  King; David Doll

The Copper Country Karate Institute of America is located on the third floor of the Douglas Agency, in downtown Houghton, MI. Opened in 1987, the CCKIA, is in it’s fourth home in the Copper Country area. One past training hall included the Calumet Branch of the International Order of Odd Fellows hall (the first residents of the hall other than the Odd Fellows since it was built in 1880), and Superior Bodybuilding in Calumet.

The CCKIA is proud to have hosted four summer national weekends both at home in the Keweenaw, as well as in the Mackinaw Island area.  Its first hosting weekend included performances by members of all KIA clubs in an evening of martial arts demonstration at the Historic Calumet Theatre. Club members currently range in age from four to 64+ and travel from up to 60 miles away to grace our dojo. In addition, Calumet High School physical education students have trained with the CCKIA since 1992, as the first PE/health curriculum in the state to include self-defense as one of it’s required components.  We also have trained with the football program at neighboring Michigan Technological
University.

We are proud to participate yearly with other KIA clubs in raising money for the Make-A-Wish foundation and happily pile into our 1947, Greyhound bus each November to participate in the annual fall testing, tournament, and awards banquet in beautiful Cleveland Ohio. The Copper Country Karate Institute of America is a Century Martial Arts retailer supplying all types of martial arts equipment.