The creative flair was strong this Monday, starting with the first hour of Aikido. The task was to keep being creative and fluid with your physical aikido solutions to all the rapid attacks your partner sent your way! This started with just the basic manipulations but ended up with a Read more…
Well, if you’d been hoping for a sedentary start to this weeks Wisewarrior Training schedule then Richard San did not accommodate! Punches, punches and more punches with the students attempting to knock the stuffing out of the pads. Also a great lesson for stance work, you try hitting a pad Read more…
The new format to Monday night training sessions proved their worth again this week. Having that combatsword split allows us to bring the class all together to best enjoy the subject without grade distractions. With this weeks combat lesson on knife defence and with a class of all grades; it Read more…
With the gradings over it was high time for some fun and the Sen’s were only to happy to oblige! Richard San kicked off with the ‘new look’ monday night. Every Monday night will now be the first half partner work and the 2nd half Sword; which really went down Read more…
Stop Press!! Grading news! Well folks, that’s yet another National Grading over – and another great set of performances from the Cheltenham Dojo with excellent passes from Dohighs Matthew, Nick and David, we have our fine new Sempais; Will and Chris, not to mention the great weapons performances from Dohighs Read more…
Have you all enjoyed the recent spate of Cheltenham Wisewarrior articles coming out at the moment? (Hope so!) But we always like feed back so let us know, either through the comment part of the blog, via the members page or just in the normal chat after a training session! Read more…
It’s all happening…as usual! Grading preparations, weapons wazas, combat displays, a great karate seminar, (check out the write up!) plus a new format coming soon to Monday nights. So dont miss out….keep checking up on the updates! Grading prep is in full swing now, which is just as well cos Tor Read more…
With the grading performance night behind us there are still a few lessons left till the National Gradings and students feverishly worked on their syllabus through Monday’s and Wednesday’s sessions. And with the Karate Seminar just around the corner to polish up those hand techniques everyone is well on track Read more…
Well as i’m sure you’ve all heard; Wednesdays ‘Performance and Grading night’, was a great success….. And if you havent heard….why not?! 🙂 Because let’s face it guys, what with web site updates, blog updates, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, text updates and even verbal updates short of using carrier pigeons Read more…
‘What no air con?!’ Seemed to be the rallying cry of the dojo this week! ‘Ah’ modern students!…A lesson when you were still standing afterwards was always a bonus when the 4th Dan’s started their training back in the 80’s!! Either that or you were made to stand in a Read more…