Wednesday Specialist Courses 2024

These courses are held at Istead Rise Cummunity Centre Worcester Close Istead Rise Gravesend DA13 9LB from 7pm to 8.30pm. Specialist course are held every Wednesday evening, please see club instructor for information regarding content of each course. These courses target sections of the syllabus and also cover  training concepts and principles related to our[…]

Grading Dates 2024

Children 9.30am to 11.00am Adults 11.00am 1.00pm Sunday 18th February Sunday 7th April Sunday 19th May Sunday 14th July Sunday 8th September Sunday 20th October Sunday 15th December Grading “Game Plan” Introduction As part of testing the skills we’ve been working on over preceding months, the structure of the grading aims to put us under[…]

Weapons Courses 2024

Sunday 4th February 10am to 12.30pm Sunday 17th March 10.am to 1.00pm Sunday 28th April 10.am to 1.00pm Sunday 2nd June 10.am to 1.00pm Sunday 21st July 10am to 1.00pm new date added Sunday 1st September 10.am to 1.00pm Sunday 13th October 10.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 1st December 10am to 1.00pm Istead Rise Cummunity Centre[…]

Weapons Course 12th November

Istead Rise Cummunity Centre Worcester Close Istead Rise Gravesend DA1 9LB 10.00am to 1.00pm Course Fee £15 Shizendo uses the knife as a training tool to develop and improve our coordination skills, enhancing our power to deliver force coupled with correct body and strategic body positioning. The art of the empty hand and the core[…]

Weapons Course 28th May

Sunday 28th May 10am to 1pm Istead Rise Cummunity Centre Worcester Close Istead Rise Gravesend DA13 9LB Weapons to include, Knife, Escrima Stick and Tonfa The course will cover forms, partnered training concepts and principles. Course fee £15 please make sure you have a current licence

Tensho Sticky Hands Course

Istead Rise Community Centre Worcester Close Istead Rise Gravesend DA13 9LB Wednesday 10th May 7.00pm to 9.00pm course fee £10.00 This course is for a small group of students, we meet in the small room first floor White Crane – Wing Chun and Karate Connection Most Karate Styles are derived from the White Crane Styles[…]

Centre Line and the Sixteen Principles

Centre Line The centreline is the shortest straight line drawn from the centre of the exponent’s body to the centre of their opponent’s body. … Centreline theory allows the exponent to maximise their force by ensuring also through correct body mechanics that centre of mass is behind every attack and defence. Sixteen principles of the[…]