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A piece of news from Peter Hill:
Recently at the British Karate Federation Championships in Sheffield, Wado Academy members Matthew Soanes 4th Dan (Devon Wado-Ryu), Andy Kilby 3rd Dan (Devon Wado-Ryu) and Mike Betty 2nd Dan (Budo Juku) all succesfully qualified as English Karate Federation Kumite Judges.
(Class B).
Congratulations on those gaining the qualifications and a just reward to the effort and dedication they have made.
Time doesn’t half fly by nowadays.
Four more weeks until the summer course in Lymington. Hopefully everyone has booked their accommodation.
As it was the first time in Lymington last year, we were all just getting to know the area. Maybe this year we can name a pub to meet for those arriving Friday night. I am also looking to organise an open house one of the days so people can come around to our house for drinks and nibbles. It is close to the beach and Bournemouth if people want to venture onwards.
More details should follow soon.
A couple of photos have been added to the Squad page from the last session in Birmingham.
Around forty members attended from all parts of the country. After a through warm up with Riaz Ahmed, head coach Peter Hill took the brown and black belts for kata, with Seishan being the kata for the day. Matthew Soanes took the coloured belts for practise in the Pinan kata. After a short break special guest instructor Jason Ledgister took the group as a whole for kumite. This was a thoroughly enjoyable and informative session, to conclude the session two areas were set up for referee and judges practise with Jason kindly passing on tips and advice to various members who were paired up for matches.
Unfortunately I was not able to be there, but was in Spain on holiday and had worse weather than at home it seems.
A big thank you for Glyn Curtis who took the photos for Sensei.
For more photos, see the Instructors Course page.
I am sure you will all join us in expressing our sympathies and condolences to the people of Japan in the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami.
This was written in the sand on the beautiful south coast of England just yards away from the sea. It was a lovely day with the sun shining, clear blue skies and only a gentle breeze for a surprise autumnal day.
It is hard to marry the sense of peace and harmony of that setting with the devastating power that the same Nature can also bring. Please consider donating to the Red Cross appeal.
Tired and aching bodies filled the hall. I think people welcomed back mokuso as it gave everyone a chance to relax and focus on the last day of training.
Sensei took the warm up and moved us onto kihon, building up the pace to ensure everyone would be warm.
We practiced a variety of pairworks. Sensei smiled and laughed all the way through making it look simple, even more so when applying a bit of pain, highlighting the finer details of how to make it work. Unfortunately it will take us much longer.
After the shortest ever mokuso of not even one second, which brought a big laugh from Sensei, Kazutaka Ohtsuka took the first session on how to make dynamic movement and to control the distance between your opponent.
Shiomitsu Sensei then took part of the class through all the fine details of kushanku.
Sensei didn’t seem happy with how low we didn’t go with gyakuzuki no tsukomi. I think we got the message!
The dan grading candidates got more valuable attention under sensei’s eye.
Our basics and the grading combinations were further drilled by Arthur Meek and then Kuzutaka Ohtsuka worked on elements of kuzushi and moving onto kote gaeshi.
Ohtsuka Kazutaka and Arthur Meek took the general classes today.
