Congratulations to Nate for being chosen by Lindsey Sensei and Bryan Sensei as the Star of the Month for January 2019. In each class we have a student of the month, the Star of the Month is chosen from across all classes of all ages, in all disciplines.Nate was chosen...
Saturday 11:53pm Update.We’ve driven through Jays Close this evening, the road is very icy and there’s a couple of inches of snow in the car park. Given the forecasted temperature and the messages from several families, saying they aren’t coming...
Train harder! Train faster! Longer stance! Deeper stance! Go harder! Lift heavier! Do one more. Have you heard those whilst training? I’m guessing, with a reasonable amount of personal experience and knowledge that the answer is yes. That’s fine, a good...
Our last class before the Christmas holidays is on Sunday 16th December. We open again on Wednesday 2nd January. We’d like to thank all of our members for training with us this year and we would all like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New...
We are pleased to announce that we have recently become accredited with The Safeguarding in Martial Arts Mark. The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts has been designed to promote and recognise martial arts clubs/organisations who demonstrate good safeguarding practice...
Shin Gi Tai Martial Arts Academy has been nominated for the prestigious UK Coaching awards and has reached the final of the Coaching Culture Organisation of the Year along with British Canoeing and The Youth Sport Trust. It’s a great achievement reaching the final...
We hope you will jump, block, kick and punch at the chance to support us in raising money for The Camrose Centre Basingstoke and SHELTER. The Camrose Centre supports homeless and vulnerably housed people in Basingstoke. The provide breakfast and a cooked meal...
Sometimes as a coach in any sport it’s easy to feel like a nag, constantly reminding students to ‘bend their knee’ or ‘pull their hand back’ or ‘grip the uniform differently’ or whatever is specific to a particular sport. The...
Members of our Basingstoke Martial Arts club made the trip to Dundee on the Banks of the River Tay in Scotland for the World Union of Karate-Do Federations biennial World Championships. This event is always a highlight in the calendar, with over 2600 competitors from...
Just asked the kids at the end of one of the Karate classes, in Basingstoke, if they had any questions and was asked “what did we learn today cause I just had fun.” We discussed it as a group and this is what they learnt. Our drills warm up was team...
At the recent EnergiseMe Hampshire Sports Awards, Lindsey Andrews from Shin Gi Tai Martial Arts in Jays Close won the coveted Hampshire Sports Coach of the Year award against entrants from Football, Sitting Volleyball and Skateboarding. The Sports Coach of the Year...
Congratulations to all the members of our Karate squad from our Basingstoke Karate club, who competed at the 2018 Karate Wales Youth Nationals recently. There was fierce competition across all the disciplines with many competitors and coaches plus a few of the...
Thursday 1st March we are open for classes. If you can safely make it to class later you are welcome, if you’d rather reschedule for a different day when the snow has cleared that’s fine, the choice is yours. The Car park and pavements are slippy so please...
Congratulations to the two Winners from our recent competitions. Victoria Chestnutt won the Ladies Kickboxing course prize, this was a free 8 weeks membership of the Kickboxing class and Paul Tanner, who won the Tai Chi beginner course also received a free 8 weeks...
Recently Schools in Hampshire and Hampshire Police have been warning this week (9th December 2017) about the perils of sending inappropriate images and the possible consequences. This is a topic that we frequently cover in Self Protection classes at the club,...
On the weekend of 2nd December we held our biggest grading of the year in Basingstoke. We had students from Karate, Ju Jitsu and Judo all grading. Of which Seven of them were being examined for their Black Belt. The weekend started with the younger children from the...
Our Christmas holiday closures are between Monday 18th December and Monday 1st January inclusive. We hope that you have a lovely Christmas Holiday. Merry Christmas from everyone at Shin Gi Tai.
We hope you will jump, block, kick and punch at the chance to support us in raising money for Hampshire Paediatric Diabetes Group (formally BYDG) and Diabetes UK. The Link to the webpage to donate is here...
