Riddlesdown Martial Arts

Busy weekend teaching our Self Defence and Personal Protection course! Friday night for a running club and then Sunday afternoon for local youth club. Quick and easy to remember techniques. No sitting around or death by PowerPoint. Everyone up, moving and doing!
Great effort from all the participants despite our bad dad jokes.....

Next course Friday 17th October! Places are filling up so please register asap.
Have a great week!

On Friday 17th October, together with our friends from Tatsfield Martial Arts we will be running a self defence and personal protection course between 7pm-9pm.
This is a course we have delivered numerous times over the years to a wide range of organisations such as schools (students & staff), doctors surgeries, running clubs and the WI to name a few.

In the course we focus on awareness and avoidance skills (how not to make yourself a target), and we will teach you simple and effective yet easy to remember techniques.

The course is open to male and females aged 14 or over. No experience or fitness required just lots of enthusiasm.

Kids Karate:
We still have a few places open for our under 8's Karate on a Saturday morning. If they are up early get them out training!
Congratulations to the students who moved up last week. A big step up but they did handled it in the true Karate spirit!

Have a great week!

And that was summer!

A great summer of sport. Massive congratulations to women's football team on winning the European championships again. However we teach our girls to kick 2 balls at a time....

We are back to full training schedule as from today Monday 1st September.

What's going on?

Friday 17th October we are running our next self defence and personal protection course. This course is run as always with our friends at Tatsfield Martial Arts. Please see flyer for further details.

Karate

We have 3 spaces in our under 8’s Karate section. This is due to some of our Karate ka moving up to the older session. Congratulations to them who have all trained since they were 5 / 6 years old. We only allow 12 / 14 students in this class as it is the under 8’s.

If you would like any information on the above or any of our classes then please feel free to contact us.

Have a great week!

Congratulations to all the junior and senior Ju-Jitsuka's who graded at the weekend! 3 sessions were held, 2 junior and 1 senior. A pleasure to watch all the students demonstrate their syllabus and then fight for the grades.
Regular classes and extra weekend grading prep sessions paying off. Hard work, commitment and dedication is the only way. No app, social media or QR code is going to get you the grade.
Well done to everyone!

Back training today to continue their journey.

Good morning,

Our adult self defence course is tomorrow!

7pm - 9pm at Riddlesdown School
14+ male and female
£15 pp

Still have a few spaces so please feel free to register for it.
There is nothing on the TV so be a great evening out!

Just a week to go until our self defence and personal protection course! Open to male and females aged 14+.

Places are filling up so book now to reserve your place.

Self defence and personal protection course!

Date: Tuesday 11th March 2025

Venue: Riddlesdown Collegiate

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Price: £15

The course is open to male and female aged 14+. No experience or fitness required. The course focuses on raising your awareness and avoidance skills while teaching you simple and effective techniques that you can take away with you.

This self defence program we run regularly in many schools for both students and staff, local businesses in the south east and in the city.

For more information or to register please contact me on the clubs email address;

[email protected]

Good morning everyone!
We are pleased and very excited to announce the date for our next Self defence and personal protection course!

Date: Tuesday 11th March 2025
Venue: Riddlesdown Collegiate
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: £15

The course is open to male and female aged 14+. No experience or fitness required. The course focuses on raising your awareness and avoidance skills while teaching you simple and effective techniques that you can take away with you.

These courses are always popular, and they fill up quickly, so secure your spot soon to avoid disappointment. We look forward to seeing you there and helping you build the confidence and skills to protect yourself in various situations.

For more information or to register please contact me on the clubs email address;

[email protected]

End of year awards all done and back to training!

Great to see everyone again after the Christmas and New Year break.

Ju-Jitsu gradings coming up at the end of January so lots of work to be done by both juniors and seniors.

New Karate Class

I am taking names for a new Karate kids class during the week. Aged 5 – 8 years old. I only have 12 places so first come first served. As with all our classes the first 2 lessons are free!

Please feel free to message me for further information / register.

[email protected]

Have a great week!

Busy few weeks!

Congratulations to Grace Penelli who successfully graded for her black belt in Ju-Jitsu last week. A 3 hour grading topped off at the end with 13 fights against other black belts. Well done Grace, a brilliant achievement.

We have some juniors moving up to our seniors in the new year. I say juniors, they are as tall / taller than me! I am sure Grace will be a great role model for them all.

The last of my original under 8 Karate kids have now moved up to the older class! Brilliant to see how far they have come since they started 2 years ago.

Our older class has now had to change locations as they are getting too big in size and numbers!

Well done everyone.

Congratulations to all our Karate kids who competed in the European Shotokan Karate Federation Gold Cup yesterday. A long day but its mental strength as well physical that wins through!

Results
Kata:
Jasmine Omar - Bronze
Leo Bush - Bronze

Kumite (Sparring):
Katie Murphy - Bronze

Only the 2nd competition they have attended and another 3 medals to add to the tally from the summer. A great achievement for the students and the club.

Gradings in 2 weeks!!!!
An even bigger test for them all!

Half term so no classes at Riddlesdown venue.
Karate back next Saturday and a competition on Sunday!
European Shotokan Karate Do Federation Gold Cup!
A few of our younger lower grades taking part for the first time so good luck to them. You will be amazing!

Ju-Jitsu returns Monday 4th November!