Hi, my name is James Pankiewicz and I founded Okinawa Combat Fitness at the beginning of January 2010. Having trained in jujitsu and karate as well as other martial arts for over 18 years now I have learned through lots of hard work, sweat and mental and physical challenges that achieving and maintaining a fit strong balanced body and mind are the keys to personal happiness and success in life. 
I grew up in the UK, studied Japanese at university and first came out to Okinawa around 10 years ago. Now I live here with my family and have started OCF to share the hard, fun training methods I have found over the years with new friends here. 

In our training we push the whole body through exercises proven to push the limits of muscular strength and endurance, total body power and cardiovascular fitness. We train outside and use a wide range of techniques and equipment from barbells and resistance bands to sand bags and hammers. Why? Because its fun, portable and low cost- and most of all because it works! Its not unusual to trim down by 10 kilogrammes or more and multiply your personal bests if you train regularly.

We want to be stronger, faster, fitter and more flexible so will add anything to our workouts that helps us achieve that better so our circuits and routines will change often but our underlying ethos remains the same - we will be stronger, faster, fitter!

We train every weekend and run a mid week session in Naha city, Okinawa. Find us on Facebook (Okinawa Combat Fitness) and join our group to get the latest updates on training locations, photo and video updates and lots of sample workouts!
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us as the training can be tailored to all levels of beginners fitness. Call me on 08039081712 or email me at jpank01@hotmail.com for more information.