Monday 3rd February - Change of Venue

Monday's training session will be held at Ralph Butterfield Primary School, Station Road, Haxby, YO32 3LS.  Training times are 6pm - 7pm for Haxby Karate Kids and 7pm - 9pm for the main class.

Click here for a location map of the school.


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Dojo's Friend

As promised in my last blog, here is Dojo's friend, the same week he was announced...
well done Cameron.


Cameron was awarded Dojo for listening carefully and trying his hardest. It is very easy to get distracted when your younger brother is always dodging your footsteps, but Cameron has shown real maturity lately by focusing on his own training. We love to have families training together(which we have quite a few), as sometimes it is hard to remember everything, and it's great to have someone to remind you. It's also great that when things go right, you have someone else to share that moment with. In fact I don't who was the happiest when Dojo was awarded...Cameron, with the biggest smile or Liam (who definitely gave the loudest cheer!)

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Kangeiko on the Beach 2014

With a groan I forced myself out of bed before 5 am again this morning to start the long, dark drive to Cleethorpes for join our friends at Kiazen No-Michi who once again had invited our club members to join them for the last day of their cold weather training (Kangeiko) on the beach at Cleethorpes.

However, I was not on my own this year – Lorraine Sensei, Holly, Brenda and Helen had all agreed to join in the fun, and soon the car was full, and the conversation ranged from how mad we all were to do this, to karate and then off at various tangents!

The Haxby contingent (Helen, Holly, Lorraine Sensei, Jim Sensei, Brenda)

Before long (or so it seemed) we arrived to find most of the Selby contingent (Paul Sensei, Rebecca Sensei, Ian Sensei, Matt Sensei, Dave, Kelvin and Phoebe) already there. Shortly afterwards the Kiazen No-Michi club members arrived and soon there were 30 karate-ka who were very cold but raring to go!

The 2014 Kangeiko Class

The warm ups and the jog up and down the beach with the chant of “Washoi” (be brave) quietly ringing out over the beach soon got our blood flowing. Andy Sensei led us through a series of combinations and partner work, which the footing of the frozen beach made quite challenging! Before finishing off with kumite work, Kihon Kata and another exercise which consisted of putting the beginning 5-6 moves of all the Heian Katas together to form in effect another kata – I had never done this particular exercise before, but it strikes me as an interesting way of remembering the Heian katas.

We finished off with a few photos and then hurried to a local beach front cafe for a well earned fry up – a just reward for getting up so early and the hard work we had put in!

A well deserved cuppa whilst waiting for breakfast

I’d like to thank Andy Sensei and Jackie Sensei for inviting us to their Kangeiko again. I’d also like to thank all the members of Kiazen No-Michi for being so welcoming and such fun to train with. I was very impressed with how many Tigers (their junior class) were training, and even more impressed that some of the parents were joining in!

The talk in the car on the way home was of us running a Haxby Kangeiko next year. 6 days of early morning training on the park finished off by joining the everyone at the Kiazen No-Michi Kangeiko on the beach for the final day. If you are interested then let me know and we will get it organised.

OSU

Jim

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Dojo's Friend

I have had a stern talking to myself about getting these posts up on time! One of my New Years resolutions is just that, posting within the week of the student receiving the award. You can help me by checking the blog and seeing if it's there, if not, I give you my permission to nag me.

Novembers Dojo's friend was Liam.

He looked slightly shell shocked when it was announced, but he has worked so hard, that really it shouldn't of been that much of a surprise.

Liam is so full of fun and high spirits, he sometimes has to reminded to calm down and not to gravitate towards his brother. It has been our mission to channel this exuberance into following instructions and learning basic techniques. He has worked so hard towards this, that I feel that he will be able to grade in the summer months.

Well done Liam for all your hard work and for that wonderful laugh which makes me smile whenever I hear it.

visit www.haxbykarate.co.uk to find out more about our Club. For more information email info@haxbykarate.co.uk