Lets start with wishing all those going for their gradings this Sunday the best of luck! You all looked great as you performed your Katas and Wazas in the dojo this Wednesday; just show that same focus and power and it will be a fantastic grading day for you! Nice to see other sen’s helping […]
As promised another update with pictures on our great new ‘Combat Class’ run by our new black belts, Sensei Jamese and Dave. But first some quick congratulations to some great weapons 1st part gradings! Dohigh’s Jon and Chris got theirs in a great display of technical Nunchucka, and Dohigh Lucy Read more…
This has been a most amazing week for preliminary gradings, not because of the numbers of people grading, but because of the grades they were going for. After a year of very hard work, we have had three people take their first stage black belt gradings! The first of these were on Monday with Sempai […]
A few of you were away this week, many at the famous; “Cheltenham Literature festival’ as befits ‘Wise’ warriors! However in terms of what has been covered this has been an incredibly busy week of teaching. Yesterday evening we had a great session preparing people for the part one gradings, which then started when Sensei […]
By Richard San I did’nt begin serious sword trainning until I became a blackbelt some 20 years ago, there had been opportunities before then to try a lesson in sword, but i think i had little interest then as young martial artist, too busy learning and training in Karate, which I thought then was all […]
Well, with the part one gradings happening over the next few weeks, the preparations certainly seem to have started in earnest in this weeks session. Last night we had a team of instructors and assistant instructors working hard over the first half of the session to make sure that everybody was ready for Sensei Tim […]