Bit of a housekeeping update this week, firstly well done to all of our students who turned up to the gradings, a great performance by all of you, but it was tough one! The quieter gradings always give the examiners time to ask ‘everything’ from you! So the requirements to Read more…
This Wednesday Tim san decided to exact his revenge upon a hapless Dohigh, as earlier on in the week Dohigh Chris accidently waved his Jo about in Tim San’s face while trying to juggle his weapon and kit bag while attempting a bow in the changing area!! Sooo, an impromptu Read more…
Yet another busy week as the gradings loom ever closer. On Monday night Sempai Kash was in charge of the Aikido group and despite being a bit sore from his latest ‘Spartan challenge run’ he did a great job! This is becoming a very useful exercise for the dojo’s Read more…
Well the main event of this week (well for Richard San anyway!) was the dojo getting a full set of crash mats…what joy! But more of that later. Monday started with Richard San teaching the sword session, continuing on from last week, the ‘Purple belt Battle Kata’ was again the Read more…
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Scissor take downs and a fiendish kick sequence were just some of the exciting additions that Tim San taught as part of the new 1st kata this Monday! Its a great kata, not only on a technical level but also hugely physical! Well done to our 1st Dan’s Hayley […]
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 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 […]
The kobudo seminaris now just over a week away and there seems to be a lot of interest judging by the comments appearing in the blog, Facebook etc. as well as the obvious content, (which will be amazing when two 4th Dans are running it!) it will be really nice getting everybody together for a […]
Well, we had the last part 1. gradings to do on Wednesday night before the National gradings on March 4th, and it all looked really good! Especially Kohigh Jose who passed that night impressively after only a month’s training! Although admittedly he is making full use of our standing order payment system, and has been […]