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Contact Details
Clive Young
Phone:	01753 869970
cliveyoung@f2s.co.uk
Anne-Marie Box
Phone:	01344 883347

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1st September, 2006   Website Launched

The website of Kobukan Karate Club was successfully launched today.

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2nd Tuesday of the month   Yudansha at Watford

Yudansha is the monthly advanced session with Sensei Roger Carpenter for black and brown belts only.

Yudansha is held at Kodokai in Watford. The Dojo address is:

St Thomas's United Reformed Church (Gymnasium),
68 Langley Rd,
Watford,
Hertfordshire.
WD17 4PN

Maps can be found on the Kodokai Website.

Ask at club training sessions for more info.

Make sure to display a parking permit if you're using the church car park. Ask at the training session if you haven't got one.

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12th October, 2006   Training with Harry Cook 7th Dan

Harry Cook is a highly experienced karateka having trained in Shotokan and Goju Ryu styles of karate. He is a very versatile tecaher and will be with an extensive knowledge of karate techniques and applications. Harry will be taking the session on Thursday 12th October concentrating on kata and basics from Goju Ryu. He will make the training accessible for all grades.

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Tuesday 20th March, 2007   Freestyle Session

Andy Lam (3rd Dan Wado Ryu) visited Kobukan on Tuesday 20th March to teach competition freestyle techniques. The session was very well attended and after the customary warm up Andy put the class through its paces by demonstrating a variety of freestyle techniques and then instructing us to pair up and practise.

He stressed the importance of mobility, changing stance from right to left and moving to the side to avoid attacks rather than maintaining the traditional "straight line" approach. Competition freestyle incorporates a high zenkutsu dachi stance with participants continually shifting their position with a forward/backward "bouncing" movement before launching into a 2 or 3 combination attack.

This is rather un-Shotokan like but does have the advantage of enabling participants to make distance both in attack and when defending. It also provides scope for "moving off the line". Combination techniques used were gyaku zuki, gizami zuki, gyaku zuki (followed by mawashi geri, if the defender moved out of range).

Andy then explained the importance of bag work and demonstrated this with Peter Crawford who had to hammer the bag with punching combinations, mawashi geris from both legs, ushiro mawashi geris from both legs whilst ducking under the bag when Andy launched it at him. Peter kept up a barrage of attacks for over a minute to spontaneous applause from the class.

The class cooled down from this intense work out with kata practice: heian yondan, tekki shodan, empi and chinte. Our thanks to Andy Lam for a very interesting lesson and physical workout, giving us an insight into competition style karate and the training of Wado Ryu.

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Thursday 26th July, 2007   Grading with Sensei Roger Carpenter, 7th Dan

Congratulations to Jake for gaining temporary 1st kyu, Arusa for gaining 2nd kyu and Richard for gaining 4th kyu!

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Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th November, 2007   Open Course & SKKIF Grading

Congratulations to Peter Crawford on achieving 3rd Dan. Peter performed an impressive Nijushiho kata and displayed an array of combination techniques in his two fights during the course of the grading.
Congratulations to Richard Kirby on achieving 3rd Kyu

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Saturday 28th February, 2009   Winter Course at Watford

Schedule:

• 1.30pm - 4.30pm St Thomas's Gymnasium 3 hour course with Sensei Carpenter and SKKIF Instructors.
• 2.30pm - 4.30pm St Thomas's Main hall squad training
• 4.30pm - 5.00pm St Thomas's Gymnasium Dan grade assessment with Sensei Carpenter and senior SKKIF Instructors

The course was very well attended by around 50 karateka ranging from 5th Dan to 9th Kyu. After an initial session concentrating on basics Sensei Carpenter then taught the first three versions of Sambon kumite to all grades.

The class was then split with purple belts and below concentrating on Kihon Ippon kumite with Sensei Young and brown and black belts practising Jyu Ippon kumite with Sensei Carpenter.

The session finished with advanced kata for brown and black belts in the form of Unsu taken by Sensei Young, and Heian kata for Purple belts and below with Sensei Box.

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Sunday 10th May, 2009   Sensei Kanazawa Open Course & grading at Watford

Congratulations to Kobukan Instructor Clive Young for achieving 5th Dan! And also to Richard Kirby for achieving 1st kyu, Melanie Young for gaining 2nd kyu, and Rudi Yahya for double grading to temporary 5th kyu!

Kobukan Karate Club would like to extend their congratulations to Sensei Dave Lewin and Sensei Geoff Mitchell of Matsubai Kai on achieving 5th Dan and also to Steve Marriot of Kodokai on achieving 4th Dan.

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11th June, 2009   Club training and grading with Sensei Roger Carpenter at Kobukan
Congratulations to Monica on her first grading and well done for achieving 9th kyu.
Congratulations also go to Paul on achieving temporary 2nd kyu.

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