Exeter JKA Karate Club

Another brilliant Royal Navy Martial Arts Championships yesterday, with some success for Exeter JKA Karate Club !

Boom! Amazing Christmas training session hosted by the awesome Dave at LD Fighters... MMA really is "just physics"... but maybe it hurts a little bit more 😆

Lions Den, Exeter

https://www.ldfighters.co.uk/

A brilliant day at the JKA England South West Regional Championships at IBM Hursley.
Joe was 2nd in both Mens' black/brown belt kata and kumite.
Poppy was second in Boys'/Girls' 13-15 kata and third in kumite.
Sam was 1st in Boys'/Girls' 13-15 kumite and third in kata.
I was one ahead of Joe in kata and kumite.
Thanks to all officials and participants for a friendly and well contested competition.

Successful grading for these two with Sensei Ohta. They have come a long way since starting out.... Now 1 and 2 grades from black belt 🥋. Thanks to Plymouth JKA for organising and hosting, and the SW Region for supporting 💪 🙏 😊

100% success at grading today! Great tuition from Sensei Spiros of JKA Oxford University and good company from around the region.. Thanks to Trevor Byrne of JKA Weston-super-Mare Shotokan Karate Centre for organising! Oss

Save the dates:
Grading in W-S-M on 10th Dec.
Christmas special session 16th Dec.

Hirayama Sensei 7th dan and Igarashi Sensei 3rd dan at this weekend's JKA England International Course. Outstanding tuition, as always, from JKA Honbu Tokyo.