Karate Academy North Shore

So honoured to support Chabad North Shore's Chanukah on the Green event today by running a stall where kids can come and punch pads, break boards etc. Apart from our stall there will be heaps of other activities so hope to see you there. Free entry but you must register:

Register NOW (free) Chanukah on the Green @ St Ives Village Green Wed 25 DEC 5-8:30pm
Rides. Shows. BBQ. Fireworks. Chanukiah lighting

Chanukah on the Green 2024 North Shore's Jewish Event of the Year

Fantastic having Shihan Hagen Neumann , visiting from Germany, at our North Shore Dojo this week! Hagen, a 2-time world champion, led brilliant sessions teaching some really cool take-downs, with all our students enthused by his engaging teaching methods. Thanks for coming, Hagen, and thank you to Shihan Glenn Stephenson for facilitating it.

Attached is a short video of the ninjas (under 10 years) doing some fun drills. The older teenage and adult class also has a great time and learnt a lot!

A fantastic 3-day Summer Training Camp (Gashku) in Wollongong this weekend! Many thanks to Shihan Glenn Stephenson for organising and to all of the instructors:
- Phenomenal international instructors Abel Figueiredo & Hagen Neumann
- A whole host of the top Australian Shihans and martial arts instructors: Ennio Anselmi, Stacey Karetsian, Michael Patrick, Roderick Martin, Mario Borg, Malwina Martin ,... (and apologies I know I have left some out...)

- A seminar with a huge amount of variety, ranging from understanding breathing, to highly technical aspects of karate and kata, to jujitsu guillotines & chokes and their defence, to pragmatic self defence fighting.

I brought with my camera but was so focussed on training that this is the only picture I took. Update: added some more photos that others took 😉

Such an honour to support Wahroonga Public School P&C at their annual Spring Fair. The P&C put on a fantastic, well organised fete, and kids had a great time coming up to our stall, punching pads and seeing if they can break boards!

Congratulations to those students who were successful in their recent kyu grading. Very proud of you guys!

Another fantastic win by our ex student Seth. Well done! So proud of you!

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Our ex-student, Seth, won his amateur fight today. Well done, Seth! Very proud of you!!!

Congratulations to the students who graded in our kyu grading last week! I'm very proud of all of you!

Many thanks to Glenn Stephenson Shihan, Michael Cross Sensei, Andrew Jeney Sensei, Alan Armitage Sensei, Rene Tleige Sensei, Shan Ree Tan Sempai, for help and participation on the grading panel, and Iven Allous Sempai for running the floor.

Fantastic training at this month's "First Saturday of the Month" Black Belt Club training. With Shihan Glenn Stephenson away in QLD, helping run a seminar with Rastio Shihan, this month we continued Shihan Glenn's tradition of the monthly BB club, with a lot of people pitching in to help:
Thanks to:
- Rene Tleige for the use of his dojo
- Newly minted black belt Jacob for running warm-up
- Stephen for running the Hundu Waza section
- Rene and Iven Allous for an excellent segment of kumite and fighting drills
- Andrew & myself on kata & bunkai
- Finishing with 6 or 7 rounds of kumite

Mission accomplished: Karate Gi's were dripping with sweat and we all got home exhausted.

Congratulations, Jacob: A fantastic journey to reach your first black belt. Jacob started training as an 11 year-old young kid some years ago, and it has been a pleasure to teach him and see him grow to a young man about to enter adulthood. Jacob graded to Shodan-Ho at the Gashku in Wollongong last weekend, and was presented his belt at "Black Belt training" today. (John W also graded to Shodan at the Gashku; photo to come in the next few days) Congratulations, we are all very proud of you!