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…
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…
On Saturday we ran our Kobudo workshop, and what a great turnout! Thank you to all those who came along and brought family or friends, next time we may need to book a bigger room! It had to be said when Tim San and Richard San heard that the Dojo had voted for a Tonfa […]
Firstly dates!! Just so there is no confusion, the Tonfa workshop is on the 31st of this month, which of course is a week this Saturday at 2pm at the YMCA, thank you to all who have said they are coming, should be great fun! There have already been sightings Read more…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
Because of the great response we had in 2011 to our workshops, we can confirm we will be definitely running more of these, but as promised we would like your input into what workshops you would like us to run, so have a look at the themes below and pick your 1st and 2nd choices […]
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 […]