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# Golden Week 2026: Dojo Spring Break
- URL: https://www.gojukarate.com/golden-week-2026-dojo-spring-break/
- Published: 2026-04-27T15:30:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-27T15:30:38.000Z
- Description: This year, the Dojo Spring Break runs from Saturday, May 2nd to Saturday, May 9th, 2026. Classes resume on Monday, May 11th, 2026.
- Author: Goju Karate
- Tags: News

The dojo's traditional Spring break begins, as usual, during the first week of May. 

Spring Break, also known as Golden Week, is one of two traditional planned seasonal breaks (the other is **Gasshuku**; read more [here](https://www.gojukarate.com/gasshuku-reflection-and-training/) and about last year's Gasshuku [here](https://www.gojukarate.com/gasshuku-2025/)).

[Golden Week: Spring Break at the DojoGolden Week is a key event in the Dojo year, and represents both a kind of Spring Break as well as the unofficial start to Blackbelt Selection.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Goju KarateGoju Karate![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/eb/9e/eb9ebba1-1832-4ab5-9b46-96567d9f3273/content/images/thumbnail/goju-karate-golden-week.jpg)](https://www.gojukarate.com/golden-week-spring-break-at-the-dojo/)

Read more about Golden Week.

The Spring Break holiday prepares the dojo for the all-important Blackbelt Testing Selection and Blackbelt testing periods (read more about past year's Selection [here](https://www.gojukarate.com/blackbelt-selection-2025/)) that begin immediately after Spring Break. [You can also learn more about the history of Golden Week here.](https://www.gojukarate.com/golden-week-spring-break-at-the-dojo/)

**For 2026, Golden Week+Spring Break begins on Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, and continues to Saturday, May 9th, 2026\.** 

No classes will be held, and the dojo will be closed for all events during that time. In addition, no Livestream classes will be held.

**Regular classes resume on Monday, May 11th, 2026.**

As a helpful reminder, you can get up-to-date schedule changes on [Today@Goju](https://www.gojukarate.com/class-schedule/#GojuToday) in the Class Schedule section. And a full calendar of events is also available in the [Dojo Calendar section here.](https://www.gojukarate.com/calendar/)