Sensei Ichigowa 8th Dan with Sensei Andy Major 5th Dan Te-Ashi-Do.
Saturday, 29 December 2012
A Happy Christmas to everyone i hope you all had a lovely break ,All classes resume on Monday 7th January .
A Happy New year to all of you this year we will be holding regular squad training for competition practice so watch this space .
Here is Sensei Sugimoto 6th Dan 2x former world shotokan kumite champion and Kata champion with Sensei Andy Major 5th Dan.
Here is Sensei Sugimoto 6th Dan 2x former world shotokan kumite champion and Kata champion with Sensei Andy Major 5th Dan.
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Sunday 15th July 2012.
We had a very sucessfull grading with 45 students taking and passing their grades, Every single one of them performed to a high standard and made it a very pleasant day and as the grading panel said "it made their job easy".
Following on from the general grading we had 5 candidates going for their Dan grades .
Billy Roche was taking hes Black belt 1st Dan , Charlie Lampshire/Paul Fitzgerald/Alan Worrell and John Lawrenson were all taking their 2nd Dan grades.
The grading panel consisted of Sensei's Mick Ellis 5th Dan Rob Curtis 5th Dan Andy Major 5th Dan and fellow instructor Colin Blencowe 2nd Dan.
All candidates were taken/ drilled through basic techniques followed by pre-set combination's and then Kata , one Kata chosen by the candidate then 2 high level and 1 Pinan chosen by the panel. All were performed very well showing the right spirit and tempo , one or two very minor faults appeared but overall their standard was good this was followed by throwing and locking techniques working with a partner. After an exhausting 2 hours the Kumite commenced each candidate had to fight each with a minimum of 3 fights each after which they were all very very tired but also all had passed. A big well done to all of them its great to see students you've trained for many years come through to such a good level of Karate and long may they continue to progress .
We had a very sucessfull grading with 45 students taking and passing their grades, Every single one of them performed to a high standard and made it a very pleasant day and as the grading panel said "it made their job easy".
Following on from the general grading we had 5 candidates going for their Dan grades .
Billy Roche was taking hes Black belt 1st Dan , Charlie Lampshire/Paul Fitzgerald/Alan Worrell and John Lawrenson were all taking their 2nd Dan grades.
The grading panel consisted of Sensei's Mick Ellis 5th Dan Rob Curtis 5th Dan Andy Major 5th Dan and fellow instructor Colin Blencowe 2nd Dan.
All candidates were taken/ drilled through basic techniques followed by pre-set combination's and then Kata , one Kata chosen by the candidate then 2 high level and 1 Pinan chosen by the panel. All were performed very well showing the right spirit and tempo , one or two very minor faults appeared but overall their standard was good this was followed by throwing and locking techniques working with a partner. After an exhausting 2 hours the Kumite commenced each candidate had to fight each with a minimum of 3 fights each after which they were all very very tired but also all had passed. A big well done to all of them its great to see students you've trained for many years come through to such a good level of Karate and long may they continue to progress .
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