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| Geoff Sensei |
It
was one of the hottest nights of the year that Geoff Dixon Sensei 5th
Dan and Chief Referee for JKS England and Head of the Referee Development visited
us once again. This is part of the ongoing Referee development that Mike and
Paul Sensei have arranged for us, and preparation for Mike and Paul Sensei
refereeing at the World Championships in Edinburgh in September.
This
time Geoff Sensei packed his Gi so as well as running the refereeing session he
took through some kumite exercises as a warm up (not that one was needed as we
were all soon covered in sweat!) with a focus on what will score at
competitions and working up to combinations and techniques that we could
consider.
After
a quick break to rehydrate Geoff rotated the senior members of the club (and
our friends from Selby) through the judging and refereeing positions (corner
judges, main referee, and shadow referee) with our club members providing the
competition.
Geoff
Sensei was impressed with the keenness and enthusiasm of our students to take
part in the kumite, and recognised that our students were more relaxed and
moving better then at his last visit. I must admit that I was very impressed
with everyone who fought – there was good spirit throughout. Special mentions
have to be made of our Yellow Belts – Evie, Oliver and Aiden all did
brilliantly against older and higher graded opponents.
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| Geoff Sensei Supervising Ian's refereeing whilst Oliver battles Brenda! |
Once
again Geoff Sensei provided us with a wealth of advice and was only too happy
to answer any questions that might we had. And everyone that I spoke to
afterwards came away with something useful.
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| Adam and Alice provide the action whilst Paul sensei looks on |
Geoff
Sensei seemed to enjoy his visit to our dojo as much as we enjoyed training
under him, and expressed a desired to be asked back, we need to make sure that
we remind Mike Sensei periodically to invite Geoff Sensei to visit us again to
strengthen our link with him and his club. This is one of the strengths of the
JKS we are making connections with other karate-ka and other clubs to expand
our ‘karate family’.
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| The two sides of Holly (C) - Don't make her angry! |
I’d
like to thank Geoff Sensei for visiting us again and giving so freely of his
time and advice. We will continue to run
referee development sessions once a month which are open to all, and if you are
interested in the formal JKS referee development programme please contact Geoff
Sensei directly at jksreferees@btinternet.com
visit www.haxbykarate.co.uk to find out more about our Club. For more information email info@haxbykarate.co.uk
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