Our Action Videos

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 […]

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Training For Gradings

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 […]

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Stick fighting.

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 […]

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Lights, Camera, Action!

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 […]

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Competition time….?

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, […]

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Block and Move

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 […]

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Hi Ho Haito

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 […]

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Back After the Summer Break

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 […]

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Exercises

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 […]

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