Training You In The Art Of Karate And Street Self Defence Since 1983
Hi Folks. Last night at the Buntingford Karate Club Owen (2nd Kyu – Brown belt with one white stripe) took the lesson. It is one of my stipulations that every Brown belt grade has to have taken a lesson before they can grade for the coveted Black Belt. Both Owen and Sam are 2nd Kyus and will be taking their […]
Hi there. Last week Rick stepped up to the challenge of taking a second lesson in his Karate career. Rick is a very well organised person and planned out the lesson well before-hand. My advice to students who are going to take a lesson is – always have to much. Rick had an abundance of things to get through but […]
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 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 […]
Hi Folks. Last night I decided to devote some time to Street Self Defence with particular reference to knife attacks. We use rubber knives in the Buntingford Karate Club but the students are asked to regard them in the same way as a real knife. I even insist that when they hand them to someone else that they do so […]
On Tuesday I arranged that Jake (1st Kyu Brown Belt) would take the lesson. I get all of my Brown Belts in the Buntingford Karate Club to take a lesson before they get their Black Belt as it gives them some idea what it is like to be out the front and taking the lesson. As they kfind out, it […]
Tuesday’s lesson was unusual too say the least. You see, in my day job, the company decided that their staff should all have a Flu jab to keep down staff sickness levels…….and yes, you’ve guessed it….we all went down with the Flu! Any kind of bug seems to head straight for my throat and vocal chords and thus it was […]
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 […]