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HI Folks. I haven’t been blogging here for a while but I am back with some good news. Recently, at the Buntingford Karate Club we held a grading for three of the members: Owen, John and Sam (pictured below in that order). I am pleased to report that they all performed extremely well with Owen and John passing to Purple […]
Hi Folks. On Tuesday 30th May Ben went for his Brown Belt (3rd Kyu) in the Buntingford Karate Club. This is a long grading as it involves (for the first time) bag work to show how accuracy and power has developed, some complicated Kihon (basics), and three katas – a compulsory Tekki Shodan, with two others picked by the examining […]
Hi All. Well, there’s a clue in the title isn’t there? Ably assisted by Keith, on Thursday 6th April six members of the Buntingford Karate Club presented themselves to me for grading. We had Marco and Andrea going for Orange 8th Kyu; Kyler and Sam going for Green 6th Kyu and John and Owen going for Purple 5th Kyu. All […]
Hi All. Last Thursday (30th March) CJ took the class of the Buntingford Karate Club for instruction in how to use a Jo Staff. We started with some basic warm-ups without the sticks to get our hands, wrists, fingers, thumbs and arms ready for handling the Jo Staffs. A variety of “sticks” were in evidence ranging from what looked like […]
HI Folks. Yes it’s been a while since my last blog. Sue and I have been busy as we are retired from “normal” work! I don’t know how I ever found time to go to work! Anyway, enough of that. The Buntingford Karate Club is to hold gradings on Thursday 6th April for Marco and Andrea, Sam, Owen, John and […]
Hi All. One of the things that we practice here at the Buntingford Karate Club is “stick work”. I am rather an adept at this but we have someone in our club who is very good at putting over a Jo lesson, and that’s my cousin CJ. CJ has shown his skills at both of our 2014 and 2016 Buntingford […]
OK, I know it’s not Japanese food but if you live in Buntingford then it’s the closest we can get! We all toddled off to the Heron Public House in Standon. Having said that, we had a great meal which was DELICIOUS. The Buntingford Karate Club had 15 members attending (with 2 guests) giving a total of 17. A great […]
Hi folks. Before Christmas I announced that we intended to re-instate an old custom at the Buntingford Karate Club by having our club Christmas dinner in January! To that end I gave out two dates for members to get back to me as soon as possible. These were for 13th or 20th January (both are Fridays). As I only received […]
Hi Folks! Yes, let the members of the Buntingford Karate Club and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. At our last two trainings of 2016 we again went a little potty with the Christmas hats and other head attire! And on our last Thursday Andrea made us some lovely cakes which were served […]
Hi Folks. As my wife Sue and I are now aged 62 we thought that we would like to take up Tai Chi. I did a short course of this some years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it finding it a useful addition to my Karate Training. A couple of years ago we went to Viet Nam and had the chance […]
