Black and Brown belt course on the Isle of Wight. Sunday 5th February 2012 |
Training at the Dojo had been increasing in tempo for the past few months, as Sensei Merv and the other instructors prepared Liam, with joint members of Crookhorn Karate club, Rebbeca and Nathan, for their Dan gradings. Unfortunately due to illness (including Sensei Faye and Pat) the originally planned party of 18 was reduced to 11. Undaunted the party left Portchester on time at 9.00am and by 10.00am were enjoying a hot drink on the Wightlink car ferry.
One of the club members who had only recently attained his 3rd Kyu Brown belt and thus making his first Black and Brown Belt attendance describes the day's training. "SURVIVING MY FIRST BLACK AND BROWN BELT COURSE Before the course
First Session
The warm up left me very warm and more than just a little out of breath but I was already starting to take things on-board that may help me in the future. Then it was over to Sensei Dewey who explained that we would be working on the various types of Kumite and taking it all back to its basics.
Second Session The second session was led by Sensei Smith and began after just a ten minute "comfort" break. Following the first demanding session with Sensei Dewey, I think everybody was now looking forward to a less ‘Blood and Thunder’, more technical session. The second session was certainly just as technical as the first session with Sensei Smith emphasising the ‘Zan Chin’ of each of the various Kumite forms but was also just as dynamic, if not more so. I couldn’t understand how I was able to keep going so hard for so long and yet enjoy it all so much. Even the press-ups issued by Sensei Smith when he got the idea that people had started to lose their initial ‘Buzz’ and were not responding in as sharp a way as he would have liked, seemed more achievable then I ever thought possible after such a gruelling couple of hours. Reflections
During the technical explanations of each of the basic techniques that we had all done so many times before it was starting to finally become clearer as to what the referees were actually looking at when judging the Kata and Kumite in the competitions and perhaps why I had not done as well as perhaps I thought I should have when competing against brown belts in the past. They had obviously had this level of insight in the past and were able to put it into practice. Summary The having fun whilst training will happen anyway."
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February 2019 School half term holiday |
School half term holiday week. February 2019 |
Karate Day time lessons |
Daytime Karate lessons are now being held on Thursday mornings at the Castle St, Portchester, Day Centre. For further information please ring 07713284430 or email mvodonnell@portchesterkarate.co.uk These classes are for a range of people with varying abilities and in particular for the older and fairly active person that would like to benefit from the health aspects of practicing Karate and at the same time exercising their minds in the learning of new skills. Existing students of Karate are also catered for in the lessons. In particular those on shift work and others that cannot get to their regular training lessons. |
Further information |
For the Portchester Karate Club and clubs in other areas or different training times, please email modonnell@portchesterkarate.co.uk or telephone 07713284430. |
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