UK Shotokan Karate Info Page

14/01/2025

🥋 TSKUK Presents Sensei Shinji Akita 6th Dan 🥋

Saturday 8th February 2025 - Hawkwell, Essex
&
Sunday 9th February 2025 - Wymondham, Norfolk

Open To All

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JKS Hombu dojo

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Now confirmed Kanazawa Kancho Sunday course open to all Associations. Venue. Windsor Girls School 12 noon - 4.00pm on Sunday 13th April
Email for tickets and further details
[email protected]

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ISKF Master camp 2025 Open to all Regardless of affiliation for a week long Karate Training with top class Instructors

14/01/2025

Get Your Gi Back On!

It seems inevitable for many students – after years of dedicated training (or even just months), the training begins to slow down.
Sometimes, it just stops suddenly, and there’s a conspicuous gap where a student used to be. A pocket of quiet where a karate practitioner used to stand and nodding away while listening to instructions. No student slips away unnoticed.

There are a thousand demands on our time, many beyond our control. Money must be earned, marks attained, Families require an investment of quality time, Sometimes, it’s as simple as an injury that dragged on and suddenly, it’s two months out the dojo (or more).
One missed class can easily become three. Three classes becomes a month. Then six. Then a year. And then there’s a day when you open your cupboard and there is your gi, hanging up and gathering dust. Waiting. (And silently judging you.)

“But what will Sensei think?” the student wonders, before slowly closing the door. “I can’t go back after so long.”

Oh, but you should. You can always come back. 99% of the time, your Sensei will be utterly delighted to see you return. All that matters is that you make the decision to put your gi on and get to the dojo. Oh, sure, there might be excuses, like…

“But I’m so unfit!”

So few people are genuinely fit anyway. If fitness was a precondition for martial arts, very few of us would get to start. It’s not that important.

“I never told Sensei why I left”

Look, few instructors are soft and fluffy. But your Sensei is human (very much so) and probably isn’t holding a grudge. Just come back, perhaps say sorry, and ask to train again. It sucks to ask, but it is also pretty hurtful when students disappear without any explanation.

“I can’t remember it all anymore”

You are not starting at the bottom – everything you learned is somewhere in your body. It just needs a gentle reminder and some dusting off, and things will start to flow back again.

Losing momentum is the cause of so many failed hobbies, talents, dreams and projects. In trying to get any major goal accomplished, we forget that it is made of a thousand little steps.

A black belt is only the sum of hundreds of hours, not always a special talent. You don’t have to do unworldly things: you just have to go to class every week. Every class you can, except when you really, really can’t.

If you have a virus, stay out the dojo.
If you have an exam tomorrow, then study.
Big family thing? (My family know not to arrange things on a dojo day, they all know what it means to me, and love and respect me enough to know that's where I will be)
Tired?
Busy?
But not so busy that you can sit and watch TV for 2 or 3 hours ?

To me nothing is worse than having a talent and a passion and letting it go to waste simply because of a stubborn attitude or trying to please others..

"IT’S YOUR LIFE TO LIVE"

Get your gi on and get to a dojo!

14/01/2025

Our first Seminar of 2025 is just around the corner and we are excited to get going and welcome Chief Instructor of S.K.I Israel בית ספר לקארטה Sensei Ohad Rashba Levy 8th Dan.

Ohad has trained and graded under Asano Hanshi for over 40 years, he is a loyal student to Hanshi and regularly comes over to the UK and trains with us all on our courses.

He has a wealth of experience and Karate knowledge and has had many success at SKIF European and World championships - both as a competitor and a coach. His first ever competition he competed in was the 1990 SKIEF European Championships in Crystal Palace London where he made it all the way to the finals in the Men’s Individual Kumite and was unlucky to pick up an injury in the process which hampered his performance.

All Karate-ka are welcome to come along and train with Sensei Ohad. For further information drop us an email at [email protected]

Date: Saturday 15th February 2025
Time(s):
12:30 - 14:00 (Session 1)
14:30 - 16:00 (Session 2)
Venue: Nottingham Wildcats Arena, NG3 7FJ
Cost: £50.00

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Book on and support. 💪🥋
Looking forward to seeing all our karate friends.
Payment should be sent to
M Stockham
25280068
30-80-83
With reference ‘RD25’

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Still forever.. Jim Kelly 🐲🔥

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Medal table of the BKF 2025 Grand Slam https://www.sportdata.org/karate/set-online/popup_main.php?popup_action=medals&vernr=8859&active_menu=calendar

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⭐️“”I DON’T PAY FOR KARATE“”⭐️

From a Karate parent...

One of my friends asked "Why do you pay so much money and spend so much time running around for your son to do karate ?" Well I have a confession to make: I don't pay for Karate! I don’t pay for my son’s karate lessons. I don't pay for his mitts.... or suits or his competitions.

So, if I am not paying for karate, what am I paying for?

- I pay for those moments when my boy becomes so tired he feels like quitting but doesn't.
- I pay for the opportunity that my boy can have and will have to make life-long friendships.
- I pay for the chance that he may have amazing instructors that will teach him that karate is not just about movement but about life.
- I pay for my child to learn to be disciplined.
- I pay for my child to learn to take care of himself.
- I pay for my child to learn to work with others and to be a proud , supportive, kind and respectful dojo member.
- I pay for my child to learn to deal with disappointment, when he doesn't get that score he hoped for, or fell during a move he has practiced a thousand times, but he still gets up and is determined to do his BEST next time...
- I pay for my boy to learn to make and accomplish goals.
- I pay for my boy to learn that it takes hours and hours and hours and hours of hard work and practice to create a champion, and that success does not happen overnight.
- I pay so that my boy can be in the dojo instead of in front of a screen...

I could go on but, to be short, I don't pay for karate; I pay for the opportunities that karate provides my child to develop attributes that will serve him well throughout his life and give him the opportunity to bless the lives of others. From what I have seen for many, many years, I think it is a great investment!

13/01/2025

Agreed.