More good syllabus work done this week with all students moving ever closer to their martial art goals. However Tim San; ever the technical task master, noticed students suffering with their stance work. To this end, as you have undoubtedly seen on Facebook and the members page of the website, Read more…
Sensei Mark Williams made preparations for his green belt sword grading this week. Monday saw him practising hard in Sensei Richard’s sword class, with the assistance of Sensei Nick Baldwin. Nick San; as part of his preparations for his own sword grading (Blackbelt in sword this December!) was tasked with Read more…
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…