SCUKO has a very simple philosophy.

The organisation exists to support its clubs. Its clubs do not exist to support the organisation.

Most peoples Karate training happens in their club. The organisation believes in supporting this and doing its utmost to ensure that instructors are constantly focusing on improving themselves and their students. This encompasses them working on their own personal development and knowledge, improving their technical ability, improving their teaching skills and learning how to properly manage a Karate School.

Many Karate organisations do not have structured instructors training programme in place. Often clubs are left to “wander along” without support until the organisation actually requires members to attend events and support the organisation, often for financial reasons. Then criticism can often happen from the even the most senior instructors, when in fact all they have been doing is working hard to support the organisation without any help, advice and guidance whatsoever.

The SCUKO instructors training programme is fundamental to our success and is the foundation for everything else.

All other SCUKO events for students are their for their benefit, not the organisations benefit. A great example of this is the SCUKO Kyu grading examinations. They are free. If you join a University, you pay for your tuition, not to sit your exams. Why should this be any different for Karate? Another example is the SCUKO black and brown belt courses, where their are always a minimum of 3 high level instructors with sessions often split into grading groups for added focus. These are prerequisites for gradings for 2nd Kyu upwards. However, SCUKO believe that students should not pay for these courses if they are required to do them. Yes other courses that are chargeable are held, but these are not prerequisites for anything. They are only for students who want to attend them. Obviously the more that attend, the more the organisation knows it is doing a good job.

The organisation believes that all SCUKO students should have access to the organisations events and that these events should be there to support them in their development and not be used as a vehicle to support the organisation.