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…
Yet another busy week as the gradings loom ever closer. On Monday night Sempai Kash was in charge of the Aikido group and despite being a bit sore from his latest ‘Spartan challenge run’ he did a great job! This is becoming a very useful exercise for the dojo’s Read more…
Well its good to see nearly all of our blogs starting to fire up again after the quiet summer blog period! Tim San has a new blog up about ‘self defence’ this week, that should get you all in the mood for our next workshop, which will be on….self defence of Read more…
On Saturday we ran our Kobudo workshop, and what a great turnout! Thank you to all those who came along and brought family or friends, next time we may need to book a bigger room! It had to be said when Tim San and Richard San heard that the Dojo had voted for a Tonfa […]
Firstly dates!! Just so there is no confusion, the Tonfa workshop is on the 31st of this month, which of course is a week this Saturday at 2pm at the YMCA, thank you to all who have said they are coming, should be great fun! There have already been sightings Read more…
The kobudo seminaris now just over a week away and there seems to be a lot of interest judging by the comments appearing in the blog, Facebook etc. as well as the obvious content, (which will be amazing when two 4th Dans are running it!) it will be really nice getting everybody together for a […]
Well, we had the last part 1. gradings to do on Wednesday night before the National gradings on March 4th, and it all looked really good! Especially Kohigh Jose who passed that night impressively after only a month’s training! Although admittedly he is making full use of our standing order payment system, and has been […]
Because of the great response we had in 2011 to our workshops, we can confirm we will be definitely running more of these, but as promised we would like your input into what workshops you would like us to run, so have a look at the themes below and pick your 1st and 2nd choices […]
As promised, a full write up on our Isbourne Centre demonstration on the 3rd of December now that the excitement of the gradings are over! The Isbourne Centre is a renowned holistic and alternative therapy centre situated in some beautiful Regency buildings in the heart of Cheltenham. They were having their Christmas event with stalls, […]