Charity Kick-a-Thon 2025
Join us for our 21st annual charity kick-a-thon! We are raising money for charity – this year for Second Harvest Food Bank and International Rescue Committee (see below). During the week of December 12-18, we will do kicks – LOTS of them… For the entire week, we will be doing kicks on our own* and holding kick-a-thon events in almost all of our youth classes, building up to the finale on Thursday evening. In that 7pm class, we will do 202 r6epetitions of maegeri (front-kick) as well as 2026 repetitions of gyakuzuki (reverse-punch) in a two hour session. We welcome those from all over the world to participate with us over Zoom each year. Please see below for photos and more info.
Link to donation pages (one local / one international):
Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley: https://impact.shfb.org/team/787574
International Rescue Committee: https://irc.donordrive.com/campaigns/Silicon-Valley-Karate-kick-a-thon-for-IRC
For more information about the kick-a-thon history, please see here: https://www.svkarate.com/kickathon/
If you have any questions, please contact us.
Some scenes from our dojo kick-a-thon 2024:
New records set in 2024:
Oldest to do 2000+ kicks at the finale: Dan (64)
Child (<13 years old) doing the most repetitions during the entire week-long event: Toko (12) 5970 kicks
Most kicks in a single day: (tie) Senseis Jon & Novely – on Thursday, they each did 5125 kicks (plus 2025 punches)
Grand total for the dojo: 107,330 kicks + 22,275 punches = 130,325 repetitions for charity!