Harry’s Lesson

Hi there. The Buntingford Karate Club trains (as you know if you have read our tags) every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the Gym in Edwinstree School, Bowling Green Lane, Buntingford, Herts. On a Wednesday a Tae Kwon Do club uses it and we have a studentwho attends this club as well as ours, and that’s Harry. Harry trains hard […]

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Happy New Year!

What a great response to the New Year from all the students, with nearly all of the members of the Buntingford Karate Club turning up to train on Tuesday and Thursday. Well done everyone! I was also pleased to see our latest keen recruit, Katie, turning up to train. She has now finished her beginners course and was in with the […]

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Competition time….?

Some years ago the Buntingford karate Club used to regularly enter Karate Tournaments. We did quite well and brought off a few competent first places. I even managed to get two of the then members (one man and one woman) onto the reserve English Karate Governing Board squad. However, in recent years the interest within the club has dwindled. Well, […]

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Block and Move

This week in the Buntingford Karate Club I concentrated on getting the Students to move over the floor more. To this end I had them attacking each other with roundhouse (mawashi geri) kicks and also Side Thrust Kicks (yoko geri kekomi). Instead of heavy “dead blocks” I got the students to flick their hands over using the strength in their […]

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