Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
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 […]
Read moreAt 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 […]
Read moreStrange….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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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 […]
Read moreFunny 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 […]
Read moreAnother 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 […]
Read moreBit 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. […]
Read moreHi 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. […]
Read moreIf you are a regular reader if the Blog for the Buntingford Karate Club you will have noticed that I have not blogged for a couple of weeks. We had half term and this always affects numbers and there have been a few “technical hitches” but here I am back again. So what’s new?….Well I have built on the success […]
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So, this last week in the Buntingford Karate Club I have gone over the Black Belt kata Sochin (pronounced either So-Shin or So-Chin depending on what College you went to….stand by for Japanese reprisals on my pronunciation!!). I tend to say So-Shin with a gutteral sound for So (more like Sor than Sow). I had all of the students doing […]
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