What a way to end 2025! Higashi clubs travelled from far and wide across the country, from deepest darkest Essex and Norfolk to the wild west of Wales, from the depths of Cornwall to the lofty heights of Staffordshire - all to attend the much-anticipated Christmas Kata Course and Grading in Swindon on 13th December. After a sweaty warmup lead by Tony Sergent we covered basics and ran though the pinan katas and then moved on to kata with bunkai with top tips from Senseis Steve

Well, another great trip to Ireland for an excellent weekend course in Donegal. Starting with a road trip from Belfast with Ciaran Donnelly showing me some of the wonderful sites and walks around County Donegal, which I will certainly be doing in the future. Friday started with a fast paced session at the Kinclasslagh club run by Paul McNally and Dominic Shannon, for Brown and Black belts working on form and combinations in Kata. Great effort from all with lots of sweat and g

Just two short weeks after the course in Sligo it was down to Cardiff for an Autumn course led by Jon Dunn at the club of Nikki Lintern-Gittens. An excellent sweaty Friday night session at Nikki's dojo to get everyone in the mood, with Jon keeping everyone on their toes with his unique style of teaching. On the Saturday another packed session with over 50 attendees at the much bigger and better air conditioned hall! Senior instructors split them into groups to cover basics, k

Just a few short weeks after the course in Yeovil seven intrepid travellers from the UK made very different journeys to the far off land of Sligo to attend their favourite overseas course in the Emerald isle. On Thursday Sensei Steve Bell set out from Reading whilst Simon M travelled from Essex to meet him at Luton airport to get their plane. All was going great until Simon remembered he’d forgotten his passport and had to go back home to retrieve it missing the flight over.

Four Nations together once more and I couldn’t be more proud of you all! Successful grading on Saturday! Friday night's class And you...

On Friday 7th March along with Tony Sergent we travelled to Knock airport in Ireland. We were met in Sligo by Ray Conway and Jason...

This is a little on the late side! The Christmas HKK Course and Grading was held on the 14th of December 2024 at Swindon and was run by...

There were 50 Students in attendance for the HKK Christmas Kata course from all over the UK and Ireland who descended on Reading on 9th...

HKK Kata Training Course held at the Maldon dojo in Essex. This was the first time that we published a schedule for the day outlining...

This year saw the looong awaited return to our traditional training ground at the Ogwen Bank Country Park in the beautiful foothills of...