Last month I was lucky enough to travel over to Kefalonia where Sensei Eleni Labiri-Suzuki of Suzuki-ha Karate held a seminar with Sensei Gary Swift invited to teach. It was my first time in the area, and I had an absolute blast getting to know all the students, get a taste for the cuisine, and
Some good attendance at last Sunday’s course hosted at Horsham dojo. We covered kumite-gata – the 10 pairwork exercises that preceded the kihon-gumite as we know them today. Thank you to Henri (4th Kyu) and Vita (5th Kyu) for coming along and representing the club. If you want to see over an hour of instructional
Many, maaaaany thanks to ALL 80 odd students who came to the Hanshi course (and later Hanshi Cup) in Horsham today. I hope you all took plenty away from the 6 training segments (which seemed to become shorter each time due to constant overrunning 😉 ). For those of you who were able to eat the cake
I’m rather late with this, but it shows that there is nothing new under the sun! On October 10th 2018, Sensei Gary Swift taught a 3 hour course covering the ‘final’ kata in Wado – Suparenpei. You can find plenty of photos of the course here:
As we approach the end of another year, I’d like to thank my students for another hard year of training. Between having new (clearly dedicated) students joining our ranks and well established, hard training students achieving their 1st Dan, I consider this a great year for the club. We remain small, and train harder for
Hello all! As you should all know, you can find the most up-to-date BWK date section here. I thought it important to highlight a few of the main upcoming events happening this year, especially the local ones. Clear your calendars folks, because I want you to attend as many of these as you can: These courses
Hello all! On Sunday I was lucky enough to enjoy yet another of the annual Mittsu-ji temple kata courses under Sensei Gary Swift 8th Dan. For those who do not know, the ‘Temple Kata’ are Jit-te ‘Temple Hand’, Ji-han/Ji-on ‘Temple Sound’, and Ji-in ‘Temple Ground’. As written on the BWK website: ‘Three Temple Kata’. 参慈形 Refers
We can’t believe it’s been 5 years since we took over our old club and founded Zanshin Wado. Where have they gone? In honour and celeration of 5 years of Zanshin Wado Ryu Karate, we invited Sensei Gary Swift 8th Dan Kyoshi over from Plymouth to teach at our local Horsham venue. We covered