Xen-Do Martial Arts

Specialties

Xen-​Do is a martial art which can help you get fitter, build your stamina and strength, and improve your flexibility and muscle tone. We train in a safe, professional, dedicated environment with fully qualified professionals who have attained the highest levels in the discipline.

Our classes and personal training sessions are individually tailored to help you achieve your goals, whether they be to help develop body strength, increase fitness levels, learn self defense, or simply to have fun and unwind!

History

Established in 1970.

2009 — Dai Master Rafael Nieto creates the Xen-​Do community we know today where Martial Arts are a way of life following the flow of nature and the universe without limit or trepidation.

2008 — Master Rafael Nieto opens two new clubs in Golders Green and Camden.

2000 — Master Rafael Nieto opens his first club at the Seymour Leisure Centre

1997 Master Rafael Nieto commences running, judging and refereeing Team GB for the WAKO European and World Championships.

1992 — Master Rafael Nieto made British Team Coach

1991 — Sensei Denise Bailey becomes World Champion

1990 — Master Rafael Nieto becomes World and European Champion

1989 — Sensei Denise Bailey awarded Black Belt

1988 — Master Rafael Nieto becomes Technical Director of the National College of Karate

1979 — MU-​GEN-​DO founded by Master Meiji Suzuki

1975 — Rafael Nieto becomes a student of Master Tatsuo Suzuki

1970 — Master Tatsuo Suzuki and Master Meiji Suzuki started their own club in King’s Cross

Meet the Business Owner

Rafael N.

Business Owner

Rafael Nieto is the founder of XEN-​DO and currently runs three schools in London (Camden, Marylebone and Golders Green).

Rafael’s philosophy is «Fit for Life», and he believes that people who train in Zen-​Do should be incorporating martial arts as a symbiotic part of daily life. Zen-​Do and life should come together as one.

Rafael Nieto, an eight times national Martial Arts champion, has been a martial artist since 1975 and has represented the nation at World and European championships as a double winner.

He became Technical Director of the National College of Karate in 1988 and British Team Coach in 1992. By 1994 he represented Britain at the World Association of Kickboxing Organisations (WAKO) and founded and developed the Spanish WAKO Organisation.

Rafael is acknowledged as a leader in Martial Arts; he was presented the Henry Cooper Award for 2012 in recognition of his contribution to the inspiration and development of young people and is often approached on a consultancy basis.