Karate Tigress

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NAME: Karate Tigress
ARCHETYPE: Scrapper
ORIGIN: Natural
REAL NAME: Kari King
AGE: 29
HEIGHT: 5'8
WEIGHT: 120lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Black
OCCUPATION: Superhero, martial arts instructor
BIRTHPLACE: Paragon City, Rhode Island
POWERS: Olympic-level athlete, black belt in multiple forms of karate

Karate-dō: the way of the empty hand. A martial art with a lineage that stretches back hundreds of years, from its initial beginnings in the traditional Okinawan fighting arts to the modern styles that have spread all throughout the world. One such place karate has founds its way to: Kings Row, Paragon City. The Tiger's Den Karate Dojo has stood for decades as a place where anyone from the community can come to learn self-discipline, self-knowledge and self-satisfaction at eventually being able to punch through a stack of bricks and do the cool stuff with the nunchaku. The King family (no relation) has run the Tiger's Den for generations, with current owner and instructor Kari King having inherited the dojo from her father.
Kari's journey in the martial arts began at a young age when her father, Kenneth, began instructing her in the basics of the style that his own father had taught him. He made one addition to the traditional teachings, though - as well as running his daughter through forms and kata, Kenneth King made sure to run her through his sizeable collection of 80s and 90s martial arts B-movies (most of which were absolutely not age-appropriate). Capping off an evening of training by watching some former-kickboxing-champ-turned-actor defend their home/neighborhood/America via copious amounts of jumping roundhouses turned karate into a lifelong devotion, and by the time Kari took over as head instructor of the Den, she was a black belt in several disciplines. And yes - she could punch through a stack of bricks, and do the cool stuff with the nunchaku.




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- Kari holds black belts in various styles and hybrid forms of karate, including Kyokushin, Shotokan, Gōjū-ryū, Shitō-ryū, Taidō, Tang Soo Do, and American Kenpo. Tiger's Den students are taught a hybrid style of the King family's creation named Tora-ryū, which emphasizes karate as spiritually a defensive art, but prioritizes speed and power training and has a heavy focus on sparring, during which everyone forms a ring around the combatants and chants "kumite" until someone gets hit in the face.
- Kari was a success in local kickboxing competition in her younger years, but the combined demands of academic life and helping run the dojo meant she never competed on a wider level. She still goes as a spectator when she has the time, though!
- The first lesson at the Tiger's Den is free. Sign up!