The last grading of 2016 is on 27th November

Any student wishing to learn the Tanto, please contact your club instructor for more information

The new updated Tai Chi Site is almost ready to go live, hopefully in the next few days. Will keep you posted.

Sunday the 13th was weapons day; the feature was the Tonfa instruction under Pete Halloran and Tai Chi sword under Paul Bacon. The course was three hour duration of mainly form training with application to both these weapons; also an introduction to the Sai was demonstrated by Pete. Thank you both for making the day[…]

The weekend of the 11th to 13th was Shizendo Norway course attended by 60 students both adults and children. On Friday the temperature outside was -8 degrees and snow on the ground, inside the Dojo the students covered basic’s, Kata and pairs work with cross reference to application, as always I managed to overrun by[…]

My old and newly refurbished wooden dummy, repositioned for training in the garden, peace and quite and next to the Koi Carp pond.

A new training session has been added at Cascades Leisure centre for Karate Kids on Friday at 6.30pm to 7.15pm exclusively for 1st Kyu and above. The session will cover all aspects of 1st Kyu training, Kata, pairs work and application, a must for all 1st Kyu’s.

The course was an In-depth look at pressure point striking within kata and body mechanics, power lines of the body through spirals and compression. Three hours of mind opening training, enough for a life time of study.

Ji Yu Kumite is the free style application or function of the pre-set techniques contained in the grading syllabus. Within the Shi Zen Do Karate syllabus the student will be taught twelve sets of Ippon Kumite and ten sets of Khion Kumite, these are the pair’s work of the system. Each set contains not only[…]