By Richard Trafford. It’s a problem! Needing to learn a new skill set, we take our time and make sure we get it right. Steady as she goes you might say. Of course the more complex the skill to be learned, the more steadily we take it. But what if Read more…
You know, as an instructor there’s nothing better than laying out a structured lesson. Taking a concept from the ground up. You start with something basic then add a little bit to get the students to the next layer/depth of understanding. Then you add another and another and by the Read more…
By Tor Laurel. As a martial artist who walked into a Judo club some 40 years ago, I’ve often found that it is very difficult to gauge my overall progress, and I’m sure this is something that I have in common with most of our students. We show up every Read more…
Thoughts on shapes (By Richard Trafford) This week has definitely been a focus on weapon work for me, the Jo staff playing a big part of course; with some of our students hoping to grade in it soon. Of course this theme was started of by the usual Monday nights Read more…
The week kicked of as usual with a great sword session on Monday night, with three of our students (including Mark San & Kevin San) hoping to take a national sword grading very soon, it had a distinct edge to the night! Richard San was in charge and making sure Read more…
Lots of excellent work this week in the Wisewarrior Cheltenham Dojo as students worked hard on their individual pieces for this coming Wednesday; ‘Grading and Performance Night’. Judging by what we saw this Wednesday there should be some pretty spectacular demonstrations of martial performance and technical skills! This upcoming Performance Read more…
(Updates from a Cheltenham-Martial arts-dojo!) Well as you might of heard after last Wednesday nights excellent Karate and Aikido session that our latest website re-vamp is up and running! So please check that out, you might have to reset your bookmark/Favorites page for Wisewarrior, and go straight to the www.wisewarrior.co.uk Read more…
Next Monday, 1st April is a Bank Holiday and the Dean Close School is CLOSED. Therefore there will be NO TRAINING on this day. That is to say we WILL NOT be training on Monday 1st April. Or to put it another way… Definitely no training this coming monday! So, Read more…
It was only a matter of time I guess, it had been several weeks since he last got on his technical high horse, so the students kinda had it coming! Monday it was poor Andrey San that caught the brunt of it having his yellow belt Wisewarrior Karate Kata dissected Read more…
Well all the Black Belts must have still been basking in the after glow of their advanced seminar this week as we had some cracking lessons in the dojo, especially on the Wednesday night session, there was definitely something in the air! Certainly for Richard San and Tor San who Read more…