Traditional karate. Competitive spirit.
Isshinryu karate & kickboxing.
With Grand Master Albert Mady.
Training Champions since 1974
Five consecutive North American and world breaking titles. A tenth-degree Isshinryu black belt. A place in the Bruce Lee Hall of Fame.
Albert Mady has spent more than fifty years turning beginners into competitors and helping champions go further. He knows what it takes to prepare for a fight and how to help someone through their first class.
Read Albert’s story
Beginners to karate champions
Learn to protect yourself. Train to win. At Mady’s, children and adults learn Isshinryu Karate from Albert Mady, a tenth-degree black belt who trains karate champions.
Albert has been teaching since 1974. Whether you’re starting your first class or preparing for a tournament, you’ll have that experience behind you. Come train with him. Your first class is free.
Beginners & professional fighters
Train like a champion. Albert Mady has helped beginners become champions and worked with professional fighters preparing for their next bout.
Learn to strike with power and control, whether you want to compete or be better able to defend yourself. You’re welcome here with no experience. Come try a class. Your first one is free.
At Mady’s Martial Arts, we believe that martial arts training is about more than just physical self-defence. Led by world-renowned instructor Albert Mady, our programs are designed to help students become not only skilled fighters but also better people.
With over 55 years of experience in martial arts, Albert is a true expert in his field and has trained hundreds of students to become the best versions of themselves. His accolades include a 10th-degree black belt in Isshinryu Karate, a 4th-degree black belt in Kyokushin Kai, a 3rd-degree black belt in Japanese Jujitsu, five consecutive years as a North American and world breaking champion, and induction into the Bruce Lee Hall of Fame.
Through his teaching, he aims to create a safe, positive and empowering learning environment for all of his students. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced martial artist, our programs will help you build strength, develop self-discipline and gain the confidence to achieve your full potential.
Learn to protect yourself with Albert Mady, a third-degree Japanese jujitsu black belt who has spent more than fifty years teaching martial arts. His self-defence work includes the Sexual Assault Centre of Windsor and schools across the community.
Training gives you a chance to work through ways of responding when someone grabs or threatens you. You can practise with a partner, with Albert there to explain the technique and help you work through it.
Women of different ages are welcome, including complete beginners. Contact Albert to talk about what you want to learn and arrange training.
Ask about women’s self-defenceAlbert is a use-of-force/defensive-tactics instructor with experience teaching people who may have to manage physical confrontations at work.
He has taught in St. Clair College’s Corrections and Border Services programs and run classes for Canada Customs and Immigration personnel. His work has also included law enforcement in Canada and abroad, bringing his martial arts experience into professional training settings.
Watch Albert demonstrate self-defence techniques with a training partner in the video. To discuss defensive-tactics training for your workplace or organisation, contact him directly about what you need.
Ask about defensive tacticsThe roots of our karate
Okinawa · The founder
Isshinryu (一心流) began on Okinawa with Tatsuo Shimabuku, a teacher who spent years studying and refining the way he fought. On January 15, 1956, he announced the name Isshinryu, commonly translated as “one-heart way”.
Drawing on Shorin-ryu and Goju-ryu, Shimabuku developed a direct, practical approach to self-defence. Its upright stances and distinctive vertical punch are still recognisable today. Traditional Okinawan weapons training, known as kobudo, also became part of the system.
North America
Shimabuku’s teachers included Chotoku Kyan and Chojun Miyagi. His later weapons training with Shinken Taira helped shape the kobudo taught alongside Isshinryu’s empty-hand karate. Kata preserve those techniques, giving students a way to study their application with a partner.
In the 1950s, U.S. Marines stationed on Okinawa trained with Shimabuku. Returning students, including Don Nagle and Harold Long, began teaching in the United States. Shimabuku visited America in 1964 and 1966, strengthening the connections that helped his art spread beyond Okinawa.
Windsor · Since 1980
Albert Mady began his Isshinryu training at Windsor’s Okinawan Karate Club under Robert Markovich. His other direct instructors included Lloyd Russette and Harry Acklin, and he continued his studies with Grand Master Lewis Lizotte.
Albert began teaching in 1974 and established Mady’s Institute of Isshinryu Karate in 1980. Now a tenth-degree black belt, he has taught generations of Windsor families and prepared students for championship competition. That history continues in the karate classes at Mady’s today.
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Karate · Kickboxing · Self Defence
Windsor, Ontario
