After a decade of teaching Martial Arts in Basingstoke and nearly 40 years of learning and teaching several Martial Arts, my experiences is that we all reach plateaus in our training. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a hard combative martial art like Karate, Judo...
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...
As recently mentioned we are making some temporary changes to the timetable in June as Lindsey and Bryan are away competing in Slovenia. Please note the following dates on your calendar: Fitness Classes Monday 3rd June: We are changing the Monday morning class...
According to the BBC a Martial Arts Black Belt’s skill in punching has more to do with his brains rather than his brawn. This is what the article had to say on the subject. Karate punching power ‘all in the brain’ By Jonathan Ball BBC News Black...
Martial Arts isn’t all about fighting, far from it. Martial Arts is all about setting yourself up for challenges, meeting them and overcoming them. Physically and Emotionally this is the case whether it’s just turning up for your first class, being...
Here we go again. It’s time for people to start their annual fitness regime with all the best intentions in the world. You can just hear it can’t you……”Well it’s a new Year and I’m going to get fit and lose weight.”...
At our Martial Arts school in Basingstoke we talk about developing the student ‘holistically’ or developing the ‘whole person’ rather than ‘teaching people how to fight.’ What does this mean? Some schools say that the sole purpose of training in the...
At the Sport Hampshire and Isle of Wight awards on 23rd March, our Martial Arts Academy from Basingstoke won the prestigious award of ‘Hampshire Sports Club of the Year.’ Katherine Wight, Sarah Godley and Alison Lee from Biscoes, Oliver Andrews on their shoulders,...
How many times do we hear……….. “I can’t do it”… “It’s too difficult / impossible”… “I’ll never”… “why can she / he do it”… “It’s not fair”…………. As adults we all recognise these phrases, often coming from (disgruntled) workplace colleagues...
“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 on a regular basis to...
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...
