A very special congrats to the students that were ready to move on in their Kenpo Adventures.  Awesome Job Everyone!!! Kyle Naylor  2nd Orange Stripe Taylor Niggel  1st Purple Stripe Michele Laity  4th Green Stripe Shane McCarthy  1st Brown Stripe Chad Hendrix  1st Brown Stripe And a VERY, VERY special KUDOS goes out to our [...]

Congratulation to all the Pre-Teens and Teens that achieved their new levels on their Kenpo Adventure.  What a great night!! Mason Bowers  1st Orange Stripe Kyle Naylor  1st Orange Stripe David Lane  4th Blue Stripe Michele Laity  2nd & 3rd Green Stripe Draven Nguyen  2nd Red Stripe Savannah Nguyen  3rd Red Stripe And a very [...]

With the first semester over, the PKA Karate Academy in Pittsburgh held it’s first belt exam for those students that were ready and approved to move on in their Kenpo adventure.  Congratulations to ALL!  LOTS of hard work! Kidz Zone: Joey Klose:  New Yellow Belt Jovian Smith:  New Purple Belt Sami Niggel:  New Purple Belt [...]

Congratulations to all the students that tested for the end of this semester at the PKA Karate Academy, Burgettstown, location.  Awesome Job!!! Adrian Plance:  New Little Dragons Yellow Belt Cole Plance:  New Little Dragons Orange Belt Rudy Brown:  New Little Dragons Orange Belt William Brown:  New Juniors Orange Belt Nicholas Gianfrancesco:  New Juniors Yellow Belt [...]

First test of the calendar year went GREAT!  Congrats to everyone in their achievements on their new levels while on your Kenpo Adventure! David Lane  2nd Blue Stripe Sean Hallahan  1st Gold Stripe Taylor Niggel  3rd Orange Stripe Shane McCarthy  1st & 2nd Green Stripe Kyle Naylor  Advanced White Belt Zachary Murdich  Advanced White Belt [...]

PKA Karate Academy in Pittsburgh was recently contacted by an independent film company, Happy Cloud Pictures to help out with their current film project, “Razor Days.” Click Here to learn more about the film and company The scenes that needed to be shot revolved around a women’s self-defense class.  We were honored to be asked [...]

The PKA Karate Academy in Pittsburgh recently began operation at its second location, teamed up with Luanne’s School of Dance in Burgettstown.  On Tuesdays and Fridays, REAL Kenpo in Pittsburgh has begun to expand out of the local area and the new location is exploding! The PKA Karate Academy specializes in Age Specific, Goal Driven, [...]

On Tuesday, November 8th, 2011, the PKA Karate Academy in Pittsburgh took it’s Senior Silver-Sneaker Kenpo program on the road and provided a free class hosted by the PNC YMCA in downtown Pittsburgh.  The attendance was great, the class was fantastic and the results were overwhelming! Some of the many outstanding comments that we received [...]

PKA Karate Academy in Pittsburgh opens it’s 2nd Location.  (More coming???) On Tuesday, September 20th, 2011, Kenpo in Pittsburgh took a HUGE step forward by expanding to it’s second location which is 1445 Main Street, Burgettstown, 15021.  This was a plan in progress and with the growth of the McNeilly Road branch, the tremendous excitement [...]

We want to salute and congratulate our very own Mr. Drew Gaffron, one of our new Assistant Instructors beginning this year!  His band, “Good Timers” played the Hard Rock Café in Station Square on Sunday night, July 31st and THEY ROCKED THE HOUSE! Good Love (Cover) Free Bird (Cover) Dont Need No Doctor (Cover) Better [...]