New Karate Instructors tried out

On Tuesday I arranged that Jake (1st Kyu Brown Belt) would take the lesson. I get all of my Brown Belts in the Buntingford Karate Club to take a lesson before they get their Black Belt as it gives them some idea what it is like to be out the front and taking the lesson. As they kfind out, it […]

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Curses foiled again!

Hi Folks. Unfortunately it has been a week of frustration with the internal workings of the Buntingford Karate Club. The keen eyed individuals among you may have spotted that the long awaited movie The Set Up appeared under our Action Videos tag and was then taken off again. Regretfully, post production, the wrong website address was put on the credits and […]

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Big Foot spotted at Buntingford Karate Club!

Well, first I must apologise for the length of time that we have been without a blog here on the Buntingford Karate Club site. I just do not know where the time went! A number of interesting things happened at the club in the last few weeks but coupled with interesting things at home I was not able to catch […]

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Success for Harry

At Tuesday evening’s lesson Harry took his 3rd Kyu (1st Brown Belt) under my critical eye. Harry had been steadily improving in the Buntingford Karate Club since his last grading and he seems to get a fair amount of practice in….this is as well as helping to run the local Cub Scout group and also practice Tae Kwon Do on a […]

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Where did all the Low Grades go (2)?

Strange….but it’s happened again! I had a class full of upper belts on Tuesday 30th April from 4th Kyu (purple and white) upwards. The 4th Kyu is Harry and I have informed him that he is nearly ready for his brown belt (3rd kyu) so he is now practising like a thing possessed. As they were quite an experienced bunch […]

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Where did all the low grades go?

Well, the title says it all. But the answer is “on holiday”. By a strange coincidence most of the Buntingford Karate Club’s “lower” graded belts are also attending school and as it is our Easter Holiday break they had all gone away. And good luck to them I say! So I was left with a balance of “upper” belts from […]

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In The Dark Again

Funny how the pendulum swings isn’t it? We have been having really good attendance lately but for some reason or other we only had six students turn up on Tuesday 19th….perhaps there was a football match on the TV…England v Brazil perhaps? Anyhow, it happens so you just deal with it. I had 1 purple/white belt, one brown/white belt, one […]

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Darkness and Light (at the end of the tunnel).

Another good week of training just gone by. Tuesday was well attended despite all the colds and viruses that seem to be lurking about lately. On Tuesday I decided to turn the lights out again and get the students to do 1 step sparring in the dark – and I mean DARK. It is however quite surprising how one’s eyes […]

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Legs

Bit low in numbers on Tuesday which was a shame but as the class that attended were all “upper” belts I took the students through Kwanku Sho (to look at the sky – major form) which they all enjoyed. On Thursday I had a much better turn out with nearly all of the members of the Buntingford Karate Club training. […]

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Half Term and a Yoga Ad

Hi All. I had to wake some of the students up this week after the return to lessons after school half term holidays. As most “dedicated” martial artists know you only get good at this by hard work and practice. I also play the guitar and the alto saxophone and to get any good at them I had to practice. […]

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