Dojo Update: 24th February and Workshop.

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 […]

Combat Class & Update!

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…

Workshops, your help needed!

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 […]

Monday nights focus session…

Monday nights focus session was, I think a break-through for all those taking gradings in December. The main thrust of the evening was to develop this focus, that what we call Kimi! And by the end of the session everyone was looking really sharp. Performing movements is one thing but Read more…

Dojo Update: November 10th

This has been a most amazing week for preliminary gradings, not because of the numbers of people grading, but because of the grades they were going for. After a year of very hard work, we have had three people take their first stage black belt gradings! The first of these were on Monday with Sempai […]

Dojo Update November 2nd

First, great news, we have the venue for our Nunchaku Session, which will be held at the Cheltenham YMCA Lesser Hall, 2pm till 4pm on the 26th of November! This will be a great session that will teach the basics but also for you experienced guys some new tricks!! Its still free for our students, […]

Dojo Update, October 21st

So we moved a step closer to the December national gradings this week in the Wisewarrior dojo, as we had three more people complete their part one gradings and a further two start the process. So congratulations to Dohighs Kash and Andreaj, and to Kohigh Chris for excellent spirit and technique in passing their dojo […]

Dojo Update, Oct 13th

A few of you were away this week, many at the famous; “Cheltenham Literature festival’ as befits ‘Wise’ warriors! However in terms of what has been covered this has been an incredibly busy week of teaching. Yesterday evening we had a great session preparing people for the part one gradings, which then started when Sensei […]

Sword and the martial artist pt.2

By Richard San I did’nt begin serious sword trainning until I became a blackbelt some 20 years ago, there had been opportunities before then to try a lesson in sword, but i think i had little interest then as young martial artist, too busy learning and training in Karate, which I thought then was all […]

Dojo Update, September 29th

Well, with the part one gradings happening over the next few weeks, the preparations certainly seem to have started in earnest in this weeks session. Last night we had a team of instructors and assistant instructors working hard over the first half of the session to make sure that everybody was ready for Sensei Tim […]