JKG Karate

24/09/2026

Reminder:

Today’s class (Thursday 24 September) is at the new later time of:

6-7pm

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21/09/2026

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19/09/2026

Updates:

⚠️⚠️Change to Thursday’s training time ⚠️⚠️

From next week (24/9/26) Thursday classes will be at the later time of 6-7pm instead of 5-6pm

🥋🥋 Kyu Grading examinations 🥋🥋

The next grading will be held on Saturday 7th November - forms will be given to those eligible.

15/09/2026

Congratulations to Nat Hearn on winning the Gold medal 🥇 in the Men’s Senior Kata event at the Irish Open in Dublin 🇮🇪

👏🏼

12/09/2026

Good luck to Nat Hearn competing today in the Senior Male Kata in the Irish Open, Dublin 🇮🇪 🥋💪🏻

10/08/2026

Another important date for the diary…

Our next BSKA Dan Grading will take place on:

📅 Sunday 8th November 2026
📍 The Karate Dojo Ripon

For anyone working towards their next Dan grade, get the date saved.

Further details and applications will follow.

09/08/2026

🥇 🥇 🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉

We were invited by Norwich Karate Academy to compete in their club competition and took a squad of 6 ranging from our younger lower grades to some senior grade adults.

The competition was very well run, fair and professional throughout.

Operating on a round robin system all competitors had a minimum of 3 matches per event with many having 4.

The results for JKG Karate are as follows:

🥇Ethan Kops - Kata
🥇Ethan Kops - Kumite
🥈Tyler Valentine - Kata
🥉Tyler Valentine - Kumite
🥉Alfie Hayward - Kumite
🥉Paul Fanner - Kata
🥉Esha Sunil- Kata
🥉Jay Thomas - Kumite

The squad all represented the club exceptionally and have no doubt all grown from the experience.

Thanks to the parents, friends and supporters who made the journey to Norwich today and thanks to Matthew Yardy and all of NKA for the invite. 🥋🥋🥋

17/07/2026

Good luck to Nat Hearn competing in the Male Kata event at the WKF Series A event in Guadalajara, Mexico 🇲🇽 today

15/07/2026

Please be reminded that the next two Thursday classes are cancelled (16th July and 23rd July) due to a seminar I’m teaching in Poland this week and then a family holiday next week.

All other classes are on as normal and you are welcome to make these missed sessions up at the other classes at any time over the next month.

27/06/2026

Congratulations to our new Dan grades 🎉

The extremely hot conditions today in the dojo made for a good test of spirit and tenacity as well as technique.

Our last black belt (Dan) grading held at the dojo was over 3 years ago so we had a larger than usual number of karateka attempting their examinations.

As always we have a guest examiner come in to make sure the grading is fair and unbiased.

Sensei Colin Smith 6th Dan BSKA Examiner sat on the panel to offer his guidance and experience.

Not only does this take away any risk of bias it also steps up the level of pressure.

The successful candidates today are as follows:

Shodan (1st Dan) 🥋

Rachael Wilkins
Alfie Hayward
Thomas Frost

Nidan (2nd Dan)🥋

Aaron Whitehouse

Sandan (3rd Dan) 🥋

Helen Marsh
Paul Fanner
Nat Hearn

Congratulations to you all and be proud that you have earned your grade.

We are proud to uphold a high standard required to reach (and even attempt) the black belt.
This as a result comes with more pressure and more stressful gradings but the byproduct of that is the assurance that you have truly earned the pass.