Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
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 […]
I am very please to say that we had a terrific turn out of members after the School summer break. The Buntingford Karate Club was really buzzing with enthusiasm from all of the members and there was many a sweaty brow within about 15 minutes of starting the basic Karate training. Despite the lay off the Karate students went to […]
Here is a picture of what a “Crunch” looks like. As a Karate Instructor of some considerable years experience I often get asked what sort of exercises can be done to improve Karate performance and also help to make you look good! There are a number of good exercises that can be carried out and the Buntingford Karate Club regularly […]
Sorry if you have tried to view this site over the last few days and found it unable to be accessed. Unfortunately the server was hacked and so the website had to be taken down. Isn’t it a shame that some people seem to find it amusing to mess up the internet? Weak minded individuals if you ask me. They […]
Well training certainly took on a new twist yesterday (31.7.12). I was heading up to Edwinstree Middle School to open the Buntingford Karate Club dojo when I heard an alarm going off. Sure enough it was coming from inside the school. I unlocked the rear door to the gym and opened it and a barrage of noise hit my ears. Someone or […]
I spent some time this week going over the use of finger, wrist, arm and elbow locks in a street self defence, anti mugging situation. There is a very useful double handed X block (ju ji uke) that can be used to block, catch and then adapt to either a variety of locks, take downs or counter strikes. The students […]
