Train Traditional Shotokan Karate & Competitive Karate in our structured mixed-age Karate programme, where adults and children can train together in a technical, disciplined and family-friendly environment.
This membership is ideal for parents who would like to train alongside their children, as well as adults who want to begin Karate, return to training, improve their technique or progress towards competition.
The programme combines the foundations of Traditional Shotokan Karate including kihon, kata, kumite, movement, coordination and discipline with modern competitive Karate training.
Training follows the technical direction and coaching philosophy of Sensei Raphael Veras, founder of Veras Academy, 5th Dan Karate coach and former Luxembourg National Kumite Coach.
Raphael has decades of international coaching and athlete-development experience, including work in high-performance environments in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Jamaica and Luxembourg.
From 2020 to 2025, he worked extensively with Luxembourg’s national-team programme, coaching established senior athletes including Jenny Warling, Laura Hoffmann and Pola Giorgetti, while also helping develop the next generation of Luxembourg competitors.
That long-term youth-development work continues to be reflected today in athletes such as Jordan Sibille and Alexander Davies, who spent important formative years within the Luxembourg national-team environment during Raphael’s tenure and have since achieved major international results.
Raphael’s coaching system is also reflected in the careers of his sons Luan, Liam and Luca Veras, whom he developed from childhood. Under his guidance, they competed successfully across Europe and internationally, with Luan becoming European Champion in February 2020, immediately before the pandemic brought much of European competition to a halt.
Whether your goal is to learn Karate, improve fitness and confidence, train alongside your child or develop towards competition, this programme offers a strong technical foundation under internationally experienced coaching.
Traditional Shotokan Karate & Competitive Karate
Beginners and experienced practitioners welcome
Parents may train alongside their children