Sheffield Karate Club

Had a great afternoon teaching on Saturday. Its always a pleasure meeting up with Dill Young and Steven Hegarty 🤜🤛

Massive congratulations to all who graded today. It was a hot one 🌞😎

Special shout out to our newest black belts
🥋 Louie - our youngest junior black belt
🥋 Jo Chapman - Black belt
🥋 Sarah Will - 3rd dan Black belt
🥋 Jack Shaw - 3rd dan Black belt

Also thanks to those who came to train and support those grading. Richard Beer for working with Jack 👊 and the guys from Shinboku in London, who made the trip up to Sheffield to support Sarah and train with SKC 🤜🤛

INSPIRATIONAL 🌟
Posted with Gary's permission

Back in mid-2021, I received a phone call from Sensei John Johnston Adaptive Karate regarding a man named Gary, who attended one of John’s weekly adaptive group classes as part of the MacIntyre charity. John explained that Gary was extremely determined to train regularly and asked if he might be able to come and train with us at Sheffield Karate Club

Gary gave me a call, and I arranged for him to come along and see how he would get on in our mainstream class. I was immediately struck by Gary’s absolute determination, he had a goal, and that goal was to become a black belt 🥋

Gary explained that he had previously trained at a Shotokan club for around nine years and had reached green belt level. He wasn’t fazed by the fact that we practise Wado-Ryu kata and subsequently started training with us.

Over the next five years, Gary trained with us mostly three times a week, twice within our mainstream classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and once a week within our inclusive class on Mondays, whilst continuing to train with Sensei John's MacIntyre group on Tuesdays. His dedication and determination to achieve his goal have been truly inspiring.

Gary also gets involved in teaching within the inclusive class and gives our other members something to aspire to...

On Saturday, Gary achieved his black belt...

At his first class back after achieving his goal (whilst wearing his brand new black belt) he pulled me over to let me know he has already started watching our members training videos, in order to start learning his next kata 🥋

OUTSTANDING work Gary 💪👊

BIG shout out to all our members who have worked with Gary week in week out. You have all played a part in helped Gary achieve his goal 🤜🤛

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The month of May continues to be a big grading month for us 🥋

2 new black belts and a 3rd dan were awarded on Saturday 🥋

First up was the Samurai group (8-12 years) grading first, followed by our teens/adults class. Excellent commitment and determination. Amongst the belts awarded were 2 new black belts (Gary and Rob) and a 3rd dan (Darren) 🥋💪

Final gradings take place on the 30th with 2 members going for black belt and 2 going for 3rd dan.

Exciting times for SKC

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Building confidence and skillsets...
Congratulations to our Little Ninja members who stepped up to showcased their skills as part of a Ninja Test today 🥷🙌

Update - new address

Morcombe and Heysham Grosvener Park Primary school, Roeburn drive, Morcombe, LA3 3RY

Road trip over to Satori-Do Shotokan Karate Club anyone?
I'll be teaching near morcombe a week on Sunday. Its been a while since I've taught alongside John Johnston Adaptive Karate so looking forward to this one. Open to all styles and associations...
Full details below 👇

Very soon we host this amazing seminar, there are still 8 places left so time to get your name down 👇

This is open to all styles, so if there is anyone local who wishes to attend and expand their martial arts knowledge, please do drop us a message. It's always nice to meet other local martial artists so we can learn from each other and connect 🤝

We will be showing the practical side of Karate and also looking at close quarter striking 🥋

We look forward to seeing you there 🙇

Some of our Teens and Adult members sharpening up their throwing skills with Cian, who ran a Saturday morning Judo session at Sheffield Karate Club (SKC) 🥋 👊

Saturday morning at SKC 🥋💪👊

SKC are back once again at the at a fantastic event organised by .ssp working alongside other great activities. Around 300 children are expected over the next 6 hours 🥋💪

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