The first Leeds Koryu Uchinadi study group was held on Sat July 24 at the Kaizen Martial Arts Academy in Leeds.
This was the first in what will start of as a monthly series of seminars on old-school karate (koryu uchinadi) functional application based training open to all karate styles.
For more info on KU study group sessions throughout the UK please visit the IRKRS UK website on www.irkrs.co.uk
More pics of this event can be found here…
On Wednesday June 30th the club was involved in the S.H.E.L (Sport-Health-Education-Life) school roadshow at St Scholastica’s Primary School in Clapton, Hackney (East London).
Children from year 5 and 6 ran through 25 min bursts of sports, martial arts and tips and idea’s on healthy living as part of an event boosting a positive outlook on life through teaching life skills.
Thanks to Stephen from S.H.E.L for getting us involved and to all coaches (see pic) for delivering a great event enjoyed by all judging by the many reactions on the day and feedback received so far afterwards.
Arigato!
For everyone who attended Hanshi McCarthy recent seminars there will be a refresher session held at our Central London dojo this Friday ‘lunch time’ from about 10.30am – 1pm.
Venue details here…
Hanshi McCarthy was at our very own Central London-based dojo (UCL KU Club) on Wed June the 2nd (2010) to deliver an inspiring evening seminar at a fully booked dojo at the UCL Bloomsbury Fitness gym.
McCarthy sensei generously shared his expertise on technical, historical and philosophical topics and all participants regardless style or grade effortlessly mixed together to work on common principles through the so-called Kume drills.
My special thanks goes out to everyone from outside our club that attended among which participants from the Chiswick dojo, Seido, Enfield and Nisen Karate clubs and the Yamaguch Goju Kai including Johan san from Sweden, Middlesex Uni, Shidoin Andy, Alan san etc. (there we’re more sorry if I missed you…).
Thanks as well our club members that helped out on the day Edina san and David san.
Very special thanks to UKA Shidoin Barbara Sotowicz for providing us the dojo for the evening and to Yogi from Bloomsbury Fitness for supporting the event!
The event would not have happened without all your support…
Cheers!
More pics here…
The first club-grading (UCL KU Club) was finally held on April 14 this year.
Congratulations to Owen san (front left) and David san (front right) for passing their 10th kyu test, which incorporated koryu uchinadi kihon uke/tsuki waza, haishu & kaishu waza and ukemi waza among other general stuff.
Next grading will be on July 28 at the regular class time from 8 – 9.30pm.
We’ve just concluded 2 London seminars with Renshi Olaf Krey (IRKRS Instructor) held on Saturday and Sunday 17th & 18th of October (2009) at the Wycombe Judo Centre and Laindon Community Centre (Essex).
Participants from the UK, Sweden, Germany, as well as students from our Central London based UCL Koryu Uchinadi Club attended.
The Saturday seminar worked on old-school karate applications, including nage-waza (throws and takedowns) and ne-waza (groundwork) both applied from the clinch and from tegumi futaru geiko (hand-grappling flow drills).
The Sunday seminar was reserved for the KU Chokyu-gata and 2-person drills, an old-school interpretation of the Gekisai kata developed by Miyagi Chojun and Nagamine Shoshin in 1941.
Thanks to all participants for travelling down to London and to Renshi Olaf for delivering the seminars on behalf of the IRKRS.
Arigato!
The S.P.A.C.E summer camp Karate class took place on August the 13th in Hackney, East London. With 49 children attending it was probably one of the largest classes we delivered a session to so far in the London area (see photo).
Old-school Karate drills which include punches, strikes, knee thrusts and other basic ‘impact’ techniques (referred to as heishu-waza)were covered over 2 hours of training.
A special thanks out to Stephen and all of those assisting and attending the session as well as to David-san from the UCL Koryu Uchinadi Club who came along to assist to teach the class.
Arigato!
