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PRE GRADING TRAINING SESSION....

The Dojo will be open from 9am, Students are welcome to turn up for a free last chance training session before grading.
Open mat from 9am to 10.30am, Grading Registration from 11am.

Students of all grades are also welcome to come along to the training session, (mat fee for students not grading £5)

We are now taking applications for September Gradings.

Adult DAN Grades, please arrive no later that 11am
Juniors please arrive no later than 11.30am

Dojo 2 (Rear Dojo) will be available to students wanting to warm up or for some last minute training from 10.30am, unless you have made arrangement for an early pre grading lesson.

as always, students are welcome to bring spectators if they wish.

Tea and Coffee will be available all day and we will have water in the Dojo.

A not to be missed Master Class with Kirby Watson Sensei, 12th October 12pm to 4pm, a rare chance to train and learn from a true Master of Traditional Japanese Ju-Jutsu.

A brief history of Kirby Watson Sensei
Kirby practised Judo at school and took his first grade in 1965. In 1973 he took up Shotokan Karate under Terry O’Neill and Cliff Hepburn at Salford University and progressed to become a member of the University team which went on to win the British Universities Championships.
In 1977 Kirby went to live in France. There he met Shihan Roland Maroteaux and was introduced to a modern form of Aiki JuJutsu which Shihan Maroteaux had named Goshin Do. He received his Black Belt in this art in 1979, shortly before returning to live in Britain.
The core art of Goshin Do was Hakko Ryu JuJutsu, an art in which Shihan Maroteaux had become the first westerner to gain a Shihan licence in Japan. Kirby went on to study Hakko Ryu with Shihan Roy J Hobbs, an American Air Force Colonel who was stationed near Ipswich at the time. He also trained in Hakko Ryu with Shihan Antonio Garcia from Belgium and graded to Yondan (4th degree Black Belt) in this art in 1989.
Shihan Hobbs had spent time in Japan and Okinawa and had become the highest graded westerner in the Okinawan system of Seidokan Karate Kobudo under Soke Shian Toma. Kirby studied this art with Shihan Hobbs also and received his Shodan (1st degree Black Belt) in 1985.
Kirby’s main art, however, and the only one he studies and teaches at the moment, is Kaze Arashi Ryu (Wind Storm School). This is a complete Samurai system using both weapons and empty hand techniques. The empty hand arts of the system are Aiki JuJutsu (throwing, controlling and immobilisation arts) and Atemi Jutsu (striking arts); the weapons arts are Ken Jutsu (blade/sword arts) and Jo Jutsu (staff arts). He has been studying this system since 1985 and in 2022 attained the rank of Menkyo Kaiden (Licence of Full Transmission / Everything Passed), the highest award possible in Kaze Arashi Ryu. His teacher is Henri Robert Vilaire Sensei who lives in the USA. In the same year Kirby was also recognised as 9th dan Hanshi by the Nihon JuJutsu Kobudo Renmei
Kirby has had articles published in all major British martial arts magazines and for several years wrote a column in Traditional Karate entitled “As I See It!”

Our First Seminar with Legendary Kobudo Instructor Hiroshi Akamine Hanshi 9th DAN.

Another Great Afternoon Master Class and Training Session.
A fantastic turnout, thank you to everyone who attended.

A chance for students to go over the Kata's we learned at the BKI RYUKYU SHIMBUKAN KOBUDO SEMINAR last month with Hiroshi Akamine Hanshi 9th DAN and a chance for students that were unable to make the Seminar to join in and learn the Kata's for the first time.

Hope to see you all at the next one.

We are now taking applications for September Gradings.

Adult DAN Grades, please arrive no later that 11am
Juniors please arrive no later than 11.30am

Dojo 2 (Rear Dojo) will be available to students wanting to warm up or for some last minute training from 10.30am, unless you have made arrangement for an early pre grading lesson.

as always, students are welcome to bring spectators if they wish.

Tea and Coffee will be available all day and we will have water in the Dojo.

Next seminar to look forward to!

Everyone welcome 🥋

New!!
Hojo Kits £20 each.
4 x 5m non friction cord
1 x 10m non friction cord
1 x Draw String Bag

BKI RYUKYU SHIMBUKAN KOBUDO SEMINAR - AUGUST 2024

Our group were fortunate to have been invited to the BKI RYUKYU SHIMBUKAN KOBUDO SEMINAR on Saturday

We had the rare honor of some personal instruction with Hiroshi Akamine Hanshi 9th DAN who gave us an in-depth lesson on his Nunchaku Kata (Akamine No Nunchaku)

A Fantastic Seminar with world class instructors, we would like to thank our instructors for a very special day,
Akamine Sensei (Nunchaku, Sai and Bo Staff)
Yoshimoto Sensei (Nunchaku and Sai)
Paul Vermiglio Sensei (Bo Staff)
Yoshimoto Sensei (Nunchaku and Sai)
Andre Lester Sensei ( Sai)
Jerry Holt Sensei ( Tonfa)
Clare Edwards Sensei (Sai)

Thank you to Paul Vermiglio Sensei for allowing us to take part, and for giving us the opportunity to demonstrate what we had learned for the entire group.
We look forward to sharing our mat with you soon Sensei.

We hope to have another opportunity to take part again in the future.

Another Great Afternoon Master Class and Training Session.
Thank you to everyone who attended.
Hope to see you all at the next one.

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Promoted to 7th Kyu - Orange belt.
Congratulations Zainab.