Basingstoke Karate Blog
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Sensitivity In The Hands
“Sifu, in my mate’s class they learn to harden and desensitise their arms by bashing them together with the blocking movements, why don’t we do that?” Rod had lots of martial arts ‘mates’ who trained at different clubs and they would get together...
I QUIT!
I QUIT! Sometimes the most dreaded words to any Martial Arts teacher and sometimes the most pleasing. Adults start Martial Arts for many reasons, fitness, exercise, self defence, a new challenge or even to become a Black Belt. Children also...
Are you a Chicken?
You practise Karate/Judo/Taekwondo etc, you can’t be afraid, you’re tough, are n’t you or I would n’t want to mess with you. I’m sure many of us will have either heard these phrases or something very similar. But are they true? As a Karate (I'll...
New Judo Class in Basingstoke
From next week our Basingstoke Martial Arts Academy we will be adding Judo to our curriculum. Judo will compliment our already established arts of Karate/Kickboxing and MMA and will add in new skills to our Martial Arts Academy, particularly in...
Basingstoke Les Mills Body Combat
We've just started a brand new class - Les Mills BodyCombat in Basingstoke. Its a great way of getting fit and staying fit without having to have an expensive membership to a gym. So far we've done a couple of taster classes and they've been well...
Karate is Karate, right!
I was reading some posts on an internet forum this evening and wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry, or maybe both, just not sure which way around. To cut short a long and tedious thread, the thrust of the argument was, that it doesn’t matter where...
Basingstoke Sports Club of the Year award for 2010
Shin Gi Tai Martial Arts Academy in Basingstoke has been awarded the Basingstoke Sports Club of the Year award for 2010 In the face of stiff competition from Basingstoke Bluefins (swimming), Basingstoke Gymnastics club, Basingstoke Rugby Club,...
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