Teaching students in Aikido, Karate and Japanese Sword can sometimes get confusing, their syllabus differs greatly but all 3 disciplines rely upon stances and good posture to achieve their aims. For the Karate student a stance is all about the power. A better, stronger, more rooted stance adds weight and Read more…
Great to see so many of our students along for their free seminar last Monday night, good to have the full range from beginner to black belt! This seminar was our ‘Self Defence Part 1’, a core subject to all of us who study and teach martial arts in all its Read more…
Self defence seminar coming soon – Monday to be precise!! Not your normal, run of the mill “if your attacker does this, then…” type event!! Be prepared for a shift in perspective and a different take on our usual line of training. Basically its not going to be a series Read more…
Great seeing so many of you at the weapons seminar last night! The change from a weekend date to the Monday night for our free workshops seems to have been a good decision, that suits many more of you. We love the idea that a weapons Seminar is always so Read more…
We now have the years dates for your ‘workshops’, published on the website, for you students to peruse at your leisure! There is a change to the workshops format this year, we hope it will make attending them easier for everyone. As we are all leading busier lives and Read more…
Well that’s Christmas done and dusted. A great break and an opportunity to come back refreshed and ready to, quite literally, kick start the New Year. Training resumes at the Dean Close Dojo on Monday January 5th, 6.45pm – Don’t be late! With the new year comes a new look Read more…
Our body position in relation to an attacker is what our next Wisewarrior Workshop on the 9th of November (1pm) will be about. As you can imagine, this fundamental principle gives us huge scope to cover some great ideas and concepts, no matter what grade we have attending. The martial Read more…
By Tor Laurel. “…And then it hit me!” Normally this phrase is used to describe some sort of revelation, and certainly it has been. However on a far more literal level over the last fourteen years I have indeed been hit (and thrown and locked up and occasionally strangled) by Read more…
Its close to grading time again and the students are once again under pressure to perform. But this week they looked fine, no technical issues. Stances good, technique good, even focus good too… but something’s missing. This weeks lessons focused on that little bit extra that makes a grading performance. Read more…
By Richard Trafford. It’s a problem! Needing to learn a new skill set, we take our time and make sure we get it right. Steady as she goes you might say. Of course the more complex the skill to be learned, the more steadily we take it. But what if Read more…