The weekend of 8-9 March 2014 WKU Referees and Judges travelled to Almere, near Amsterdam in Holland, for the Karate Premier League 1. The two day event had 740 Athletes attending. Some of these were reigning or former World or European Champions. Main image shows Ivor Thomas, Brian Jarvis, Gary Hoyle, Nigel Blood and Dona […]
On Sunday 2nd March 2014 WKU Kumite Squad members from the Yokai, Oldmixon & Uphill and Clevedon clubs attended the Elkai Competition in Middlesex along with fellow club members and had some good results. The WKU Kumite Squad members and medals were: Yokai: Aiden Summers – Bronze Holly Ward – Silver Sophie Ward Brad Summers Chloe Summers […]
Remember, the Bristol Summer Course on Saturday 5th July 2014 is also going to be free for all WKU members. This course has run now for over forty years, it is a day long course, held outdoors. Anyone nearing their time to grade for Dan grade or advancement should be there, younger members would not be expected to […]
WKU travelled to Gloucester the weekend 01 March to attend the 2014 KSE Championships. Congratulations to all the athletes who competed at the event. WKU Squad results: Teams one female and two male- A Team: Paul James, Shaun Langson, Dannielle Lee – BRONZE B Team: Gary Toye, Ben Welch, Rachel taylor – SILVER 14-15 years Team: […]
WKU Gordano Course Sunday 23 February 2014 A nice fine day and some 85+ students attended this, the first of the free courses to be run by the WKU for its members. Many senior instructors including our chief instructor Alan Flook, 7th Dan, and WKU chairman, Andy Gunton, 7th Dan, were on hand to organise the training session. […]
WKU’s Nigel Langson and Ivor Thomas were invited to officiate at the British Universities & Colleges of Sport (BUCS) at Sheffield on the weekend February 22-23 2014. With 700 entries it was two very long days but both officiated well with Nigel being selected for Bronze Finals and Ivor selected to Referee and Judge the […]
The 2014 English National Kyu Grade Championships were held in Sheffield on Sunday 26th January. Those selected to represent W.K.U. were:- Bethan Atkin Lauren Bickley Lewis Cocking Sean Deady Billy Haynes Jack Howe Rory Kavanagh Niralee Kilsby Jack Richards Charlie Smith Riley Smith Nicholas Stathers Chloe Summers Nicole Summer Rachel Taylor Lewis Ward Mitchell Wyatt-Sugg Squad […]
Friday 18 October 2013 was WKU’s 10th Anniversary. The association was established on 18th October 2003. Look out for 10th Anniversary celebration events marking a great decade for WKU. The first of a number of FREE courses celebrating WKU’s first decade was held in February 2014 at Gordano School – click here to link to […]
Sakagami Challenge was held on Sunday 9th February 2014. The WKU Squad met at the Parklands leisure centre at around 9.30am, the kata was on first so nothing much happened until about 12.30pm when all the squad got changed and ready for an afternoon of battles with some prize money at stake the pressure was […]
