It’s school holidays this week, classes may be quieter than usual.

Westminster Park classes are:

Scout Hall – Tuesday and Friday 9am and Saturday 10am.

Westminster Park – Wednesday 5:30-6:30 and 6:30-7:30 and Thursday 6pm.

We may cancel classes if there are too few people, so can you please book in or let me know which sessions you are doing.

Booking link is here

If you are away this week, have a great break, otherwise see you in training. Don’t forget if you train twice in a week, you get the third class free.

List of members who in May 2021 Well done Michele and Sonny. So who will be top next month?.

Sonny E 10
Michele E 10
Mark S 9
Anushka A 9
Priya A 8
Jim F 7
Ilya T 7
Nikita A 6
Arvind A 6
Imogen C 6
Pati H 5
Josh C 5
Steve C 5
Dorian G 5
Victoria K 4
Max D 3
Scarlett D 3
Leo H 3
Lucy L 3
Paul K 2
Zach S 2
Kate S 2
Paul S 2
Maya G 2
Vivi S 2
Paddy B 1
Nikol O 1
Archie W 1

Well done to everyone who graded last night at Westminster Park under sensei Jimmy  Brennan. Everyone did exceptionally well, full passes all round.

Congratulations to:

• Jim Freeman 9th Kyu
• Lucy Liang 9th Kyu
• Sonny Egan-Wilkinson 8th Kyu
• Josh Carway 7th Kyu
• Michele Egan-Wilkinson 7th Kyu
• Steve Carway 6th Kyu
• Imogen Carway 6th Kyu
• Max Davies 5th Kyu
• Niele PeraltaBezerra 3rd Kyu

There will be another grading early July for those that were not yet ready for this grading.

Keep on training!

Morning classes currently suspended

In addition to our evening classes,  we have  morning classes during the week at Westminster Park Scout Hall in Manor Road.

These are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9am. The classes are timed to coincide with school drop offs.

Classes are open to anyone.

To book, click here

For more information contact us or call Dave Craggs on 07711009041.

You can find out more about our club and karate here.

Here is the list on members who trained last month.

Well done Michele!!

Who will be top for May!

Great start to the outdoor classes last week in Westminster Park.

I am looking at organising a grading fairly soon for those that are ready. Ideally training at least twice a week is the best way to prepare. Three times is even better, note if you have trained twice in a week the third class is free! Class timetable is here.

We do keep training records, you can log on to the system here  to see how you are doing. Check out the grading review option.

Younger members often take longer to become ready for grading. To provide additional motivation we have a Karate Tigers program where youngsters can work towards the grading at their own pace. There is no charge for this. This program has been suspended for a year now, but we are planning to reinstate it soon. You can find out more here.

We are always looking for new members. If you know anyone who may like to try karate, please let me know. If they join, and get their license we will let you have 3 free lessons!!

Looking forward to this week’s classes.

We have been training online using Zoom for a long time now, but in the next few weeks we can start back to normal training.

Starting this Wednesday we will be doing outdoor classes (weather permitting). Looks like good weather for this week.

From April the 12th we can do indoor classes for juniors. The plan is to continue with the outdoor classes so children and adults can train together, but if the weather is bad we will have an indoor class for juniors only.

From May the 17th we are hoping that we can have normal training for all ages.

Class time table is here.

New beginners

We welcome new beginners. Please contact us for more information

You can find out more about karate on our about page.

Well what a year we have had! I am pleased that you have been training throughout in the dojo, outdoor classes and of course online with Zoom, given the current difficulties.

I have been pleased with the efforts you have put in both in training and gradings.

I hope you all have a great Xmas and looking forward to some sort of normality in the coming new year.

So eat drink and be merry and we can work it all off in the dojo!!

Oss

Dave Craggs

As it is Halloween on Saturday anyone coming on Saturday can train in costume if they like.

Not compulsory though!

Given we have to restrict numbers in classes, we have implemented an online booking system.

Check it out here: Booking System

I have added sessions for Westminster Park Community Centre and the Zoom class.

Please note – you can still come along to classes without booking, but if numbers are over twelve you may not be able to train.

Note the classes have a price set at £5, ignore this, normal fees apply.

At some stage I may have to start charging a small amount for the Zoom class to cover costs.