________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm This Monday was a very exciting session, as Tim San started teaching the new 1st Dan Kata! This kata will look great when performed by black belts, but it really comes alive as a partner pattern, it contains all the techniques and skill sets a Shodan Ho needs to […]
BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Some advanced Kata work this week, at Mark sans request, which was reasonable considering his impending 2nd Dan grading!! Exactly what separates a 2nd Dan from a 1st Dan blackbelt is difficult to explain but obvious to see and mark san is shaping up very well! ________________________________________________________________ Ken-Kai-Ryu, Mondays, 7.45pm […]
BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Some advanced Kata work this week, at Mark sans request, which was reasonable considering his impending 2nd Dan grading!! Exactly what separates a 2nd Dan from a 1st Dan blackbelt is difficult to explain but obvious to see and mark san is shaping up very well! ________________________________________________________________ Ken-Kai-Ryu, Mondays, 7.45pm […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm This Monday saw Richard San teach the ‘Budo Karma’ series of cuts to the blackbelts in the advanced class. Its nice to take a break from the ‘rough and tumble’ of advanced combat and take the blackbelts for a journey along the more spiritual path of sword once in […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm This Monday saw Richard San teach the ‘Budo Karma’ series of cuts to the blackbelts in the advanced class. Its nice to take a break from the ‘rough and tumble’ of advanced combat and take the blackbelts for a journey along the more spiritual path of sword once in […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm We took a more advanced look at knife defence this week with Tim San exploring some routines that really got to grips with deterring the knife wielding attacker. A rather unpleasant time for the opponents but seeing as everyone was having a good go nobody seemed to mind too […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm We took a more advanced look at knife defence this week with Tim San exploring some routines that really got to grips with deterring the knife wielding attacker. A rather unpleasant time for the opponents but seeing as everyone was having a good go nobody seemed to mind too […]
Combat Class, Mondays 6.45pm Combat Class began its Term Time Break this week, training will recommence in September. ________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm The focus of this weeks Advanced Class was Sword work and became something of an extension of the Ken Kai Ryu Class. For more info check the Ken Kia Ryu news […]
Combat Class, Mondays 6.45pm Combat Class began its Term Time Break this week, training will recommence in September. ________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm The focus of this weeks Advanced Class was Sword work and became something of an extension of the Ken Kai Ryu Class. For more info check the Ken Kia Ryu news […]
An exciting weeks training peaked with our brown belts achieving their first part BAMA black belt gradings in Aikido Te and Karate, so well done to them! December will see them take the biggest step of their martial arts careers with their full blackbelt grading! Catch up with that on the BAMA Wednesday nights blog, […]