Promar Karate has been successfully teaching martial arts since 1979.

Your Chief Instructor is Shihan Mark Yates. Shihan is a 5th Degree Black Belt in the art of Goshin-jitsu. He also holds black belts in Traditional Judo and Jujitsu.

Shihan Yates is a world amateur champion having won the SKIL Black-Belt Self-defense title in 2002.

In 1994 Promar Karate was rated in the top 25 Sport Karate schools in the world by the National Black Belt League.

Promar trained karateka have won 14 world titles and over 175 North American, National, State and Provincial titles.

Other titles Shihan has won.

Self-Defense
PKC Grand Nationals and Self-defense Grand Championship.

Shihan is the only martial artist to win Can-Am Black Belt Self-defense three years in a row, 1995, 1996, and 1997

PKC Ontario Black Belt Self-Defense 1996

PMAA Black Belt Self-defense 2003

Weapons
Creative Senior Black Belt Weapons PKC 1997

Traditional Weapons PKC Great Lakes 2000

Kata and Forms
PKC Over 35 Black Belt Kata 1997

Black Belt Korean Forms PMAA 2003