It was lovely to see the sword group in action and ‘in motion’ this Monday night, and even better for Richard San when the higher grades just wanted to keep going with the sword class and not do their normal 2nd half ‘combat’ type sessions with Tim San next! 🙂 Read more…
Lots of technical input this week as our students move ever forward toward to their gradings and a deeper understanding of their chosen subjects. It is always great to see people developing and progressing and there is nothing better for an instructor than to see a lesson learnt and a Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) It was this week’s sword class that captured Tim San’s imagination, as faced with some quite experienced swordsmen (and women), he quickly realised a basic lesson on resheathing wasn’t going to cut it!!! Instead Tim San borrowed the footwork from the first reflective aikido kata Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) They say selling a home is one of the 3 most stressful events in life, (i can’t remember what the other 2 are, but i’m sure taking black belt grading is in there somewhere!). Tor San, while trying to find somewhere new to live, is using every Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) Well as you might of heard after last Wednesday nights excellent Karate and Aikido session that our latest website re-vamp is up and running! So please check that out, you might have to reset your bookmark/Favorites page for Wisewarrior, and go straight to the www.wisewarrior.co.uk Read more…
Well all the Black Belts must have still been basking in the after glow of their advanced seminar this week as we had some cracking lessons in the dojo, especially on the Wednesday night session, there was definitely something in the air! Certainly for Richard San and Tor San who Read more…
Cheltenham Races always add a little bit of excitement and mystery to everyones travel plan’s during this week, but all seemed to go smoothly with most students getting to their lessons, with some picking up private lesson slots with Richard San during the quite times. Well there were winners and Read more…
Never a good idea to get Richard San on his soap box, and questions regarding Sword and Aikido will usually do the trick in the dojo! During Mondays lesson the Sensei in question was running a Sword class with Aikido students within it, with no Tim San around Richard San Read more…
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, […]