PETERSFIELD KARATE

One of my earliest memories is going to the cinema with my Dad to watch Return of the Jedi. For any child of the 1970’s (I know its hard...

The largest competition we used to regularly attend in the UK was the Shobbu-Ippon International in Guildford. Around 2008-2009 it peaked...

I have often compared tools in a toolkit to a student’s repertoire of techniques that they could confidently utilise under different circums

Back in the 1980’s SEKU (The Shotokan of England Karate Union), the karate association where I grew up, used to have successful...

Back in May 2008 I was training hard and along with my fellow members of the SEKU squad. We were working towards Abe Sensei’s JSKA world...

Anyone who has had a break from karate will appreciate that one of the first skills to depreciate is controlled breath that is coordinated t

A lot of time has passed since those early days in my karate career, but somethings have not

I feel real empathy during these conversations as I myself have a young family and appreciate that for many ‘life just gets in the way’.

I had other seniors and instructors that inspired me, but I wanted to be just like that!

Tonight, was my first night back in the dojo since the middle of March. After five and a half months of zoom classes and training on my own