Investing in Your Child We live in an era of fast technology where many children expect instant gratification. As a result, the impact on work ethic, the principle of doing our best, having patience and seeking continued personal improvement has been massively impacted. Without learning these traits, it then follows that when children
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Wouldn’t life be great if we could always be on time? Sadly, it doesn’t matter how organised you are, there are occasions when being late is inevitable. However, some students are persistently late which can have an adverse effect on our classes. Arriving late is distracting and can disrupt the flow of the class. The
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Our two candidates were successful on the day. Sensei Steve Eastwood, on his birthday, gained his black belt 2nd dan and young Eva gained her 1st dan. It’s an incredible achievement for both of them. Our new syllabus makes achieving black belt much harder than ever before and only outstanding karateka will succeed. There’s
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Although it’s not tested in our gradings, fitness is an important part of karate training. Our Fitness Chart will give you an idea of how fit you need to be to progress to black belt.
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We often get asked this question and the answer is never quite straight forward. Here’s a few points to consider before asking to grade: 1. Are you training in the dojo regularly? The Online Dojo is a great tool to help you progress through the belt system but it was never designed to be the
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Like most adults of my age, I was drawn to martial arts with the release of the Karate Kid films in the mid 80’s. It’s great to see another influx of kids inspired by the Cobra Kai series. So at the age of twelve, with no karate clubs available in our area, myself and my
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Check out our first three online videos on YouTube: Warm Up & Stretch https://youtu.be/JNOoyEqwN6k 13 minute HIIT Karate Exercise https://youtu.be/xwCcrT5yZyk 13 minute Mini Beast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_jbQnxHAc With the aid of Campbell, we’ve started to film our grading syllabus and have loaded footage from red belt to brown belt 3rd kyu onto our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJyslZ_y1HHZf5gGBwfy2Q These
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We’ve recently revised our grading syllabus: Red Belt (9th Kyu) Kihons: junzuki, gyakuzuki, jodan uke, gedan barai, harai uke, mawatte (all in zenkutsu dachi), hizageri, kingeri, 1-10 in Japanese. Yellow Belt (8th Kyu) Kihons: uraken, tettsui otos hi uchi, mawashi empi, teisho, uchi uke, soto uke (all in zenkutsu dachi), maegeri, mawashigeri. Kata:
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