Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
It may seem odd that you are viewing a blog that is mentioning Chinese Martial Arts techniques when it would appear that the website is fundamentally Karate based, but how wrong you are! One of the good things about being in Martial Arts for some forty one years is that I have met and trained with, and learned from, all sorts of Martial […]
As our website explains, I also teach Self Defence courses. These are no more than 2 hours long and you do not have to be a fitness or exercise fanatic to be able to take part. They are for everyday defence against bare handed muggers and knife attacks. The course is simple but effective. Here is a picture of Ivy, a […]
Well, I hope that you are keeping up with the Action Videos that are now starting to appear both on the website of the Buntingford Karate Club and also on YouTube? Marcus Edwards gave me his latest work last week and I hope that our in-house computer Wizard, Rick, will be able to get this “embedded” and linked shortly for […]
We have three white (ungraded) belts at the moment, Jayden, Ben and Sam. They are all quite keen to grade, and, as is the case with all beginners, they have all had their training evenings where they have not been up to my standard. However, they have all put in the effort and they will all be going for their gradings […]
Hi All. I have just received the final cut of the in-house filming from one of my Black Belts, Marcus Edwards. I think that he has done a good job and we will be adding it to our action videos. Why don’t you take a look at the links back on the Home page? Sensei Bill.
I am having to catch up with two lessons for this week, both Tuesday and Thursday. I had CJ, the Buntingford Karate Club Jo and Bo specialist, take the lesson on Tuesday and once again the members thoroughly enjoyed the lesson….and not a single rapped knuckle or bruised finger in sight. When using the sticks it is important to try and […]
As mentioned in an earlier Blog, Rick turned up at the Buntingford Karate Club Dojo with a heavy cold and a light camera last week and did some filming of the club for our You Tube link. We have still got our video on the go. The filming has been done by a very good friend who is a professional […]
Some years ago the Buntingford karate Club used to regularly enter Karate Tournaments. We did quite well and brought off a few competent first places. I even managed to get two of the then members (one man and one woman) onto the reserve English Karate Governing Board squad. However, in recent years the interest within the club has dwindled. Well, […]
This week in the Buntingford Karate Club I concentrated on getting the Students to move over the floor more. To this end I had them attacking each other with roundhouse (mawashi geri) kicks and also Side Thrust Kicks (yoko geri kekomi). Instead of heavy “dead blocks” I got the students to flick their hands over using the strength in their […]
This last week (Tuesday and Thursday) saw an increase in numbers of members attending classes at the Buntingford Karate Club for which I am, of course, highly delighted and very grateful. A full class, although being somewhat harder to keep your eye on, creates it’s own busy atmosphere and everyone trains even harder. I decided to give the students some variations […]
