Female-Only Self-Protection Courses Starting October 9th 2019

Make 2019 the year you learn to protect yourself — 3 part Course

  • Learn from club Blackbelts as what to expect on the street
  • Understand protection awareness and help you to avoid physical confrontations
  • Learn a series of techniques for deterring an attacker
  • Get the chance to practise defensive combinations to boost your confidence

The courses are suitable for age 14+. The emphasis is on self-protection by helping individuals to practise moves and techniques to protect them from a would-be attacker.

Each course will be presented by male and female black belt instructors.

WED 7.30 PM—9.00 PM

Course Price: £20 (for all 3 sessions)

Bring a friend for free – if you attend with a friend they come free!

Female Only Course
9 Oct / 16 Oct / 23 Oct
Tickets: Click here to buy tickets for the female-only course

No sessions 16th or 18th January 2017

Our dojo, Hurst Village Hall, will be unavailable next week (16/01/2017 – 20/01/2017) as it is being used for the pantomime.

Therefore no training for either juniors or seniors will take place on Monday 16th or Wednesday 18th January.

We will be back to normal on Monday 23rd January 2017.

Self-Protection Courses Starting February 15th 2017

Make 2017 the year you learn to protect yourself — 3 part Course

  • Learn from a serving Police Officer (a club Blackbelt) as what to expect on the street
  • Understand protection awareness and help you to avoid physical confrontations
  • Learn a series of techniques for deterring an attacker
  • Get the chance to practise defensive combinations to boost your confidence

The courses  are suitable for ages 14—65. The emphasis is on self-protection by helping individuals to practise moves and techniques to protect them from a would-be attacker.

Each course will be presented by male and female black belt instructors.

WED 7.30 PM—9.00 PM

Course Price: £20 (for all 3 sessions)

Female Only Course
15 Feb / 22 Feb / 1  Mar
Tickets: Click here to buy tickets for the female-only course

Dan grading

Congratulations to everyone that took part in the grading on Sunday. Hard work but it was pleasing to see everyone had put in so much to make the day such a success.

To those that passed, well done. To those who were deferred, you know what needs to be done and no doubt you will rise to the challenge.

Non Goju Ryu library added

The Library within the Club Members Only are has been enhanced to incorporate general martial arts information that is not specifically to do with Goju Ryu but you might find interesting nonetheless.

There are 114 files in the following areas:

Non Goju Ryu > Fight Quest
Non Goju Ryu > Fundamentals of Pressure Points
Non Goju Ryu > Human Weapon
Non Goju Ryu > Martial Arts – 23 Books
Non Goju Ryu > Mind, Body and Kick Ass Moves
Non Goju Ryu > Miscellaneous
Non Goju Ryu > Taiji

1994 Higaonna kata videos

24 videos showing the front and side view of all the katas are now available in the Club Members Only section.

All are from a 1994 set made by Morio Higaonna and hence are good for checking out how it’s done.

The 24 videos are:

Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Gekisai Dai Ichi > Gekisai dai ichi Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Gekisai Dai Ichi > Gekisai dai ichi Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Gekisai Dai Ni > GekiSai Dai Ni Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Gekisai Dai Ni > GekiSai Dai Ni Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Kururunfa > Kururunfa Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Kururunfa > Kururunfa Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Saifa > Saifa Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Saifa > Saifa Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Sanchin > Sanchin Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Sanchin > Sanchin Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Sanseru > Sanseru Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Sanseru > Sanseru Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seipai > Seipai Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seipai > Seipai Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seisan > Seisan Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seisan > Seisan Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seiyunchin > Seiyunchin Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Seiyunchin > Seiyunchin Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Shisochin > Shisochin Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Shisochin > Shisochin Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Suparinpei > Suparinpei Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Suparinpei > Suparinpei Side – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Tensho > Tensho Front – Morio Higaonna 1994
Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Tensho > Tensho Side – Morio Higaonna 1994

We now have Higaonna video sets from three different decades: 1980, 1994 and 2004.

New videos – Saifa and Tensho

If you’re a club member you can view a couple of new videos in the Library.

The first is some instruction on parts of the Saifa kata and the second is advanced two man bunkai using many of the techniques from Tensho.

As usual you can find these in the Club Only section.

(Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Saifa and Goju Ryu > Kata > Syllabus > Tensho)