5th May 2019 | Coaching and training
Being a Martial Artist we learn and practice discipline and an ethos of self reliance to help us further our physical and emotional skills. We can work with coaches that are the best in the world, train with the best students and in the best facilities. However the...
16th April 2019 | Coaching and training
There is a mistaken belief that you can only learn new coaching skills from within your own sport. This viewpoint exists in many sports including Martial Arts. Our senior coaches spend lot of time researching best practice in Sports Coaching and evaluating how we can...
20th March 2019 | Coaching and training
Following a weekend of Yoshinkan Aikido training with Robert Mustard Sensei 8th Dan at the Eagle Dojo in Nottingham. I’ve been reflecting upon the concepts of Kamae, Zanshin, Mushin, Fudshon, Shoshin and Metsuke All important concepts within Japanese Martial...
18th January 2019 | Coaching and training
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...
6th December 2018 | Awards and competitions
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...
22nd October 2018 | Awards and competitions, Coaching and training
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...
28th September 2018 | Club news
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...
1st August 2018 | Coaching and training
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...
18th June 2018 | Awards and competitions
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...
3rd May 2018 | Coaching and training
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...
21st March 2018 | Awards and competitions
At the recent EnergiseMe Hampshire Sports Awards, Lindsey Andrews from Shin Gi Tai Martial Arts, then based in Jays Close, won the coveted Hampshire Sports Coach of the Year award against entrants from Football, Sitting Volleyball and Skateboarding. The Sports Coach...
12th March 2018 | Awards and competitions
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...
26th January 2018 | Club news
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...
12th December 2017 | Self Protection
Updated November 2026. We first wrote this in 2017 and have brought it up to date with current UK guidance. Sharing nudes, often called sexting, is something we talk about in our Self Protection classes because it affects children from primary school upwards. Here is...
6th December 2017 | Club news
Update: we no longer run Ju Jitsu classes. You can see the classes we currently run on our timetable. 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...
4th October 2017 | Club news, Information for Parents
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...
5th June 2017 | Awards and competitions
At the end of April we took 29 competitors, 6 officials, judges or referees and 6 coaches and 2 helpers/score keepers to the British Open in London Docklands. The British Open is one of the largest competitions in the calendar with a high standard of competitors and...
24th February 2017 | Club news
Update: since this post was written, Bryan has been promoted to 7th Dan in karate by Steve Rowe. On Friday 17th February I was awarded my 6th Dan in Karate from Steve Rowe Sensei/Sifu 9th Dan, head of Shi Kon Martial Arts. Quite a few people have asked me what is...
15th December 2016 | Club news
Traditionally December is our biggest grading of the year and the one that prompts the most nerves as it is also the time for our annual Black Belt gradings. During the course of December we ran three Judo gradings (one at the club and two in schools that we run after...
26th September 2016 | Awards and competitions
Annually The British Judo Association hosts an awards evening to celebrate the efforts and achievements that are happening across the Country within Judo for both individuals and clubs. Our Special Needs club at Dove House Academy in Basingstoke is already award...
