Well the main event of this week (well for Richard San anyway!) was the dojo getting a full set of crash mats…what joy! But more of that later. Monday started with Richard San teaching the sword session, continuing on from last week, the ‘Purple belt Battle Kata’ was again the Read more…
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Scissor take downs and a fiendish kick sequence were just some of the exciting additions that Tim San taught as part of the new 1st kata this Monday! Its a great kata, not only on a technical level but also hugely physical! Well done to our 1st Dan’s Hayley […]
BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm Some advanced Kata work this week, at Mark sans request, which was reasonable considering his impending 2nd Dan grading!! Exactly what separates a 2nd Dan from a 1st Dan blackbelt is difficult to explain but obvious to see and mark san is shaping up very well! ________________________________________________________________ Ken-Kai-Ryu, Mondays, 7.45pm […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm This Monday saw Richard San teach the ‘Budo Karma’ series of cuts to the blackbelts in the advanced class. Its nice to take a break from the ‘rough and tumble’ of advanced combat and take the blackbelts for a journey along the more spiritual path of sword once in […]
________________________________________________________________ BAMA Advanced Class, Mondays 7.45pm We took a more advanced look at knife defence this week with Tim San exploring some routines that really got to grips with deterring the knife wielding attacker. A rather unpleasant time for the opponents but seeing as everyone was having a good go nobody seemed to mind too […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lets start with wishing all those going for their gradings this Sunday the best of luck! You all looked great as you performed your Katas and Wazas in the dojo this Wednesday; just show that same focus and power and it will be a fantastic grading day for you! Nice to see other sen’s helping […]
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 […]
As promised another update with pictures on our great new ‘Combat Class’ run by our new black belts, Sensei Jamese and Dave. But first some quick congratulations to some great weapons 1st part gradings! Dohigh’s Jon and Chris got theirs in a great display of technical Nunchucka, and Dohigh Lucy Read more…