Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
Hi All. Apologies for not blogging recently but I have been terribly busy at home and also went away on holiday to Cuba. Anyway, I should not drop names…Mick Jagger told me that. Since last we “spoke” we have started a new beginners course. We had four young lads turn up and ALL of them had traced the Buntingford Karate […]
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Just a little note for Sue and I to wish all of you who log in to this Buntingford Karate Club website over the Christmas period a very Merry Christmas. And a Happy New Year. I hope you like my drawing!!! Sensei Bill
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Hi there. The Buntingford Karate Club trains (as you know if you have read our tags) every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the Gym in Edwinstree School, Bowling Green Lane, Buntingford, Herts. On a Wednesday a Tae Kwon Do club uses it and we have a studentwho attends this club as well as ours, and that’s Harry. Harry trains hard […]
Read moreHi All. I am now catching up after the schools summer break. Sue and I went abroad and closed the club down while we were away. We also checked with the students to see when the bulk would be back and arranged for the start back date….only to get a call from the school Secretary on the morning of the […]
Read moreHi Folks. Unfortunately it has been a week of frustration with the internal workings of the Buntingford Karate Club. The keen eyed individuals among you may have spotted that the long awaited movie The Set Up appeared under our Action Videos tag and was then taken off again. Regretfully, post production, the wrong website address was put on the credits and […]
Read moreWell, 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 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 […]
Read moreWhat a great response to the New Year from all the students, with nearly all of the members of the Buntingford Karate Club turning up to train on Tuesday and Thursday. Well done everyone! I was also pleased to see our latest keen recruit, Katie, turning up to train. She has now finished her beginners course and was in with the […]
Read moreSome 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, […]
Read moreThis 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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