Nipaipo Kata Course

Nipaipo Kata Course

Saturday 8th February saw our Karate club run a Kata Masterclass in Basingstoke. 4th Dan Lindsey Andrews and current World Veterans Kata Champion taught the Shito Ryu Kata Nipaipo. Lindsey began with a brief history of Nipaipo and throughout the Masterclass gave...
Ladies Only Self Defence and Free Fitness Classes

Ladies Only Self Defence and Free Fitness Classes

  Self Defence is an emotive topic with  many people thinking they don’t need it. Hopefully they are correct. We’ve covered a number of the key points to consider when looking at one’s own self protection. They are available on the following...
The Eight Principles of Martial Arts

The Eight Principles of Martial Arts

  The Eight Principles of Martial Arts by Wayne Roberts On the wall of our dojo in Basingstoke is a list of 8 words that face students every day when we train. I have to admit that even though I have previously looked at these words many times, I don’t...
Christmas Closure

Christmas Closure

We are now closed for the Christmas holidays. We reopen with our normal timetable on Friday 3rd January. We’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2014.  

Baguazhang and Boxing

REPORT 5 – SOFT AND HARD MARTIAL ARTS Baguazhang and Boxing   And so to the final part of this part of my project – looking at 5 hard and 5 soft Martial Arts.  I deliberately saved boxing until last as it is quite controversial in its inclusion and also Baguazhang as...

Communicating in other sports

Communicating in other sports The next part of my project can be broken down into different topics, which I shall report over a few updates. This part of the project will look over some of the communication techniques and methods talked about in the previous updates...

Martial Arts – Unnatural Movements?

For many people learning a martial art, involves someone teaching them to learn unnatural movements is this a contradiction. I still think that its not a contradiction that we get taught unnatural movements when we get taught martial arts. My first point is because if...
I’m losing! What do I do?

I’m losing! What do I do?

Question C: The question is: When someone is in the middle of a match and they are losing, what do they think and do to encourage themselves to win? What this question tells me: I believe that the question tells me to fight, be outstanding to impress other clubs. It...
BCCMA National Semi Contact Championships 2013

BCCMA National Semi Contact Championships 2013

Members of Shin Gi Tai Martial Arts Academy’s Kung Fu section were selected to join the Shikon National Kung Fu Team competing at The British Council for Chinese Martial Arts (BCCMA) annual Qinda semi contact sparring championships held in Gillingham in Kent.  ...

What is Fear?

  Fear as described in the dictionary is: An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat, but what does it actually do when we feel it? The brain structure that is the center of most neurobiological...

Children’s Exercise

Karate Black Belt Grading Essay. by Oliver Andrews It’s important for children and Teenagers to exercise because otherwise the world would be overly obese and that would be bad, because the people who are obese would consume a lot more food and the world would be on a...
Competition update – Italy Day 3

Competition update – Italy Day 3

Day 3 – Italy Competition   Another long day, we all made it for breakfast at 7:00 and I’ve just back to my room at 22:26. But must say it’s been a great day for all of the squad.   Another good day of high standard competition and of competent refereeing....
Competition update – Italy Day 2

Competition update – Italy Day 2

End of Day 2 and just got back to our hotel after dinner, it’s now 21:22 and we started training at 9:00 this morning with Ed and Jess wanting to work through their top two katas for about 90 minutes. We started training outside the local indoor tennis courts and the...
Competition update – Italy Day 1

Competition update – Italy Day 1

End of the first full day in Caorle in Italy for the Cadets and Junior’s World Karate Championships. Fair to say that the five of us are a little tired.   As a recap to yesterday, we arrived in the resort at around 12:30, quick lunch and then training at...

Coaching Communication

Coaching Communication Following on from methods of communication we use for learning martial arts, the next area of my research project involves communication used by martial arts teachers to coach – b) As a martial arts teacher, what methods of communication do we...