As i’m sure you must all know the main event of last week was the ‘Performance Night’, well done to all of you for making this a great night, we hope you have all read the write up (…link) from that night, and for all of you who made it Read more…
Another session of Knife Defence this Wednesday night after a hard evenings practice of Katas and other related syllabus work in the private lesson format. Knife Defence is one of those things that we keep coming back to and with good reason as there has been an increase in knife Read more…
The creative flair was strong this Monday, starting with the first hour of Aikido. The task was to keep being creative and fluid with your physical aikido solutions to all the rapid attacks your partner sent your way! This started with just the basic manipulations but ended up with a Read more…
Stop Press!! Grading news! Well folks, that’s yet another National Grading over – and another great set of performances from the Cheltenham Dojo with excellent passes from Dohighs Matthew, Nick and David, we have our fine new Sempais; Will and Chris, not to mention the great weapons performances from Dohighs Read more…
August will soon be upon us and, as we have hinted during lessons, we are intending to run a Karate Seminar. The Seminar is aimed at every level, in particular at those taking gradings who need to brush up on basic stances and terminology. Karate has a very different feel Read more…
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…
With our Wisewarrior website revamp imminent, Richard San and Tim San needed to take some new pictures to fill in the gaps, so Monday night took on a bit of a photo shoot atmosphere after the sword class departed. Well we captured some nice ‘grizzly’ shots of Nick San 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 its good to see nearly all of our blogs starting to fire up again after the quiet summer blog period! Tim San has a new blog up about ‘self defence’ this week, that should get you all in the mood for our next workshop, which will be on….self defence of Read more…