PETERSFIELD KARATE

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