The club is dedicated to the promotion and teaching of traditional Shotokan Karate-Do.
We welcome new members of any age and ability, style or association.
Whilst retaining traditional training methods, the club has a successful competition
record in recent years (several members being picked for the Great Britiain Team to compete
in the 2007 European Championships in Sardinia).
Training is comprised of:
- Kihon - Punches, kicks, blocks, stances, strikes
- Kumite - Builds up to free fighting
- Gohon - 5 step sparring
- Sanbon - 3 step Sparring
- Kihon Ippon - 1 step sparring (basic form)
- Jiyu Ippon - semi free sparring (introduction to freestyle sparring)
- Jiyu Kumite - freestyle sparring (most complex and challenging form of fighitng)
- Kata - Sequences comprised of punches, kicks, blocks, strikes and stances. These get sequentially more difficult