Leeds Karate Academy

Well done to LKA's newest Black Belts. Ahmed Fahad, Josh Allman & Mishi Voynova all passed their Shodan Gradings today in Nottingham.

Well done to Tom, Alex & Kane who travelled to Nottingham today to train with Kanayama Sensei from the JKS Hombu in Japan.

Well done Alex, Bronze in Team Kumite at the North East Open in Sunderland.

Well done to Aman, Bronze in Kata at the North East Open in Sunderland.

Well done to those that graded this evening. Great work all.

Nick Sensei was honoured to be asked to go and teach at his Sensei's 80th birthday course in Faversham last weekend.
Robert Rhodes 9th Dan ran the Leeds Club for several decades before moving to Southern England.

Well done to all the LKA people who took part in the Cumbrian Childrens Championships in Penrith today.
Four competitors, four medals.
Mishi Voynova Gold in Kumite.
Grayson Heald Silver in Kata
Gursimran Dulai Bronze in Kumite.
Aman Kaur Bronze in Kata.

Well done to all those that went to Nottingham today to train with Arimoto Sensei from JKS HQ in Tokyo.
Arimoto Sensei is a 4 times Gold medallist in WKF World Team Kata and one of the finest Shotokan Kata practitioners in the world.
A great 3 hours of training.

Lots of hard work going on this morning at the Kata session.

Two consecutive weekends of Refereeing duties, both at Ponds Forge, Sheffield.
BUCS Championships last week and Senior England Squad selections for the Europeans this week.