News 5th Kyu & Above Course This is a reminder that there is a 5th kyu and above course on 12th September at the Samurai Centre, Kidderminster.Training times - 10am - 1pm. Sensei Tsukada Course This year's Sensei Tsukada course will be 19th -21st November. (note - this is three weeks later the originally stated on our calendar) As soon as we have confirmed the venues, full details will be given. Changes to Kidderminster and Kinver Sankukai Karate Clubs. From July 5th Kidderminster Sankukai Karate Club training times will be:
Mondays -- 9.00pm - 10.00pm -- Open session (no formal class)
Wednesdays -- 7.30pm - 8.30pm -- Lesson
Wednesdays -- 8.30pm - 10.00pm -- Open session
Thursdays -- 5.20pm - 6.20pm -- Open session On Wednesdays the dojo will be open from 7pm - 10pm. In open sessions you are free to come and do your own training. There will be others there for you to practice partner work and higher grades to give you tuition if you want it. The sessions are informal and you can come and go at whatever times suit you. Kinver Sankukai Club will be closing. The final session will be Thursday 1st July. Links in Africa It's good to see that Sankukai is continuing to grow around the World. Calvin Collins is regularly in contact to give support and advice to Professor Sie Kam of Ouagadougou University in Burkina Faso (West Africa). Sensei Kam is currently building up his 'Djuru Club De Sankukai' and we wish him and his students all the best.
 ,  (Click to Enlarge. More images available in the gallery) Multi Discipline Course This years multi discipline course will be Sunday 4th July, Lacon Childe School, Cleobury Mortimer, 11.00am - 4.00pm. The sessions will be as follows: Padwork and Skipping Workshop with Calvin Collins 5th dan. Calvin is a fully qualified FEKO Coach and is Chief Instructor to the BSKA. He has run 'Skipfit' skipping classes in a number of health clubs & gyms. He regularly trains with former world champion boxer Cornelius Carr. Judo - An introduction to Judo with Ian Mills 4th dan. Ian is a fully qualified BJA Coach and has competed at the highest level. He has fought throughout Europe gaining many medals. He is a World Veterans Open Weight Championship Bronze Medallist. Karate - Close Range Combat with Simon Stone 4th dan. Simon is a fully qualified FEKO Coach and is Assistant Chief Instructor to the BSKA. He has a wide range of experience, training with many World class martial artists. Those karateka used to longer range and competition karate will experience something very different! Knife Defence with John Nelson 4th dan. John is a fully qualified FEKO Coach. He has thirty five years experience in karate and traditional weaponary and armed and unarmed self protection. The session will be knife defence and will include Randori Tanto-No-Kata Those attending are advised to bring a gi and also clothing such as a t-shirt and trackie bottoms or shorts. Also a pair of trainers or running shoes for the skipping session. There will be bag gloves and pads provided. Skipping ropes will be available to borrow or purchase. For more info contact Calvin on calvin.collins@homecall.co.uk Weapons course The weapons course this Sunday (May 9th) will be escrima and kubotan . There will be escrima sticks and kubotans available to borrow and to purchase on the day. As this is not a traditional karate weapon course gis are optional. Tshirts and loose fitting trousers may be worn instead. Randori Course Gordon Hogg is running a one day Randori Course on April 17th, 10am - 3pm at Wribbenhall Parish Rooms. £15 adults, £7.50 juniors. For more details go to www.s-v-k.co.uk events page. Grading Well done to the students who passed their brown belt gradings on March 21st. Congratulations to Kelvin Thompson on gaining his 1st dan black belt. Sensei Nanbu 1966 If you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVwWkgc_TuE You will find a piece of old British Movietone film titled 'Hirro Mochizuki Karate in the'60s' . The second half of the video is the famous fight between Sensei Nanbu and Patrick Baroux that was immortalised on the cover of Henri Plee's book ' Karate - Beginner to Black Belt' Old Sankukai Film Footage If you go to Sensei Tsukada's website via our links page you can find film footage of Sensei Nanbu and Sensei Tsukada demonstrating Sankukai back in 1975.You'll see that they perform Sankukai Sanbon Shodan and Randori Yondan. (Sensei Tsukada is the one getting hit!). The site is in French, just click on 'Bienvenue' and then 'Souvenirs' and you'll find it. Thanks for the footage has to go to Alan Carruthers and Sid Wise of East Midlands Sankukai who supplied the film from their archives. Course Just a reminder that the 5th kyu and above course is this Sunday (7th March) at the Samurai, Kidderminster 10am - 1pm. Calendar This year's calender has now been drawn up and can be viewed by clicking the button above. Other events will be added through the year. The A.G.M. will be held on 21st March at 12.30 at The Samurai Centre, Kidderminster. All B.S.K.A. members are welcome to attend. Pat McCarthy course There is a course by the renowned Karate authority Sensei Patrick McCarthy in Rome on the 22nd and 23rd May. Anyone interested can get more info at www.karatewado.blogspot.com . New Videos The Video section of the site has now been updated to include 18 new videos. Any feedback can be given via the guestbook. Weapons Course Venue Change The Location of the weapons course on Sunday 06/12/09 has been changed to Samurai Dojo, Lisle Ave. Kidderminster. All other details remain the same. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused. Weapons Course There will be a weapons course on December 6th at Gilt Edge Social Club, Zortech Avenue, Stourport, DY11 7DY.
It will be 10am - 1pm and cost £10 adults, £7.50 juniors. The Instructor will be Calvin Collins and the weapons covered on the day will be Bo staff and Tonfa. If you haven't got you own weapons there will be ones to borrow on the day. Sensei Tsukada Course The Sensei Tsukada course was a great success. The weekend concentrated on Kosokun Sho, Kosokun Dai and Shiho Kosokun. The Saturday was very well attended thanks to the newly joined BSKA members from Stourbridge ESKO Sankukai clubs. Thanks also to Dennis Robinson and members of East Midlands Sankukai and F.S.K.A. (Scotland Sankukai) who travelled down for the course. Brown and Black Belt Grading Well done to all those who passed their grading last Sunday (October 18th) and congratulations to Simon Langford from Kinver Sankukai Club on gaining his 1st dan black belt. Sensei Tsukada Course This year's Sensei Tsukada course will take place on Friday 30th October - Sunday 1st November. Friday training will be at Samurai, Lisle Ave. Kidderminster 7.30pm - 9.30pm. Saturday & Sunday training will be at Lacon Childe School, Cleobury Mortimer 11.00am - 3.00pm. Training fee: One day - adults £25, juniors £15 Weekend - adults £40, juniors £25 Changes to Calendar The brown and black belt grading due to take place on the 20th September will now take place on 18th October. The grading will still be at Samurai, Kidderminster starting at 10.00am. The BSKA meeting will now start at 12.30 In the next few days full details of the Sensei Tsukada course will be finalised. Keep an eye on this page! 4th kyu & above course The 4th kyu & above course on 6th September will be at the Kidderminster dojo, Lisle Ave. The instructor will be Calvin Collins. This course is strongly recommended to (but not exclusively for) those taking the brown & black belt grading on the 20th September. Congratulations Congratulations to George Payne, Chief Instructor to the Federation Sankukai Karate-do Scotland who has just been awarded his 5th dan. Well done George! New BSKA Clubs Gary Painting's Sankukai Clubs in Kingswinford and Wollaston have now affiliated to The British Sankukai Karate Association. Welcome to Gary and his students. Club details will soon be added to the contacts page. Multi Discipline Course The Multi discipline course was a great sucess. All the feed back we have had has been very positive and it was well attended. If anyone is interested in further training in any of the days activities let us know and we will either arrange a course or put you in contact with the relevent club. Check the gallery over the next few days. We'll be putting course photos on it. Multi Discipline Course This years multi discipline course will be Sunday 28th June, Lacon Childe School, Cleobury Mortimer, 11.00am -4.00pm.The sessions will be as follows: Boxing- Technique and Padwork with Cornelius Carr. Cornelius is a fully qualified personal trainer. As a professional boxer he was British Super Middleweight Champion and WBF World Middleweight Champion. He has fought fighters such as Dingaan Thobela and Steve Collins and has been sparing partner to Chris Eubank and the great Roy Jones. Check out Cornelius' website through our links page. Judo - An introduction to Judo with Ian Mills 4th dan. Ian is a fully qualified BJA Coach and has competed at the highest level. He has fought throughout Europe gaining many medals. He is a World Veterans Open Weight Championship Bronze Medallist. Karate - Close Range Combat with Calvin Collins 5th dan. Calvin is a fully qualified FEKO Coach and is Chief Instructor to the BSKA. He has a wide range of experience, training with many World class martial artists. Those karateka used to longer range and competition karate will experience something very different! Weaponary -Escrima and Kubotan with John Nelson 4th dan. John is a fully qualified FEKO Coach. He has thirty five years experience in karate and traditional weaponary and armed and unarmed self protection. Those who attended the recent weapons course know how effective (and painfull!) the kubotan can be. Those attending are advised to bring a gi and also clothing such as a t-shirt and trackie bottoms or shorts. Weapons can be borrowed or purchased on the day for those without their own. There will also be bag gloves and pads provided. For more info contact Calvin on calvin.collins@homecall.co.uk Weapons Course The weapons course on 17th May will be nunchaku and kubotan. The instructor will be John Nelson. For those without their own weapons there will be nunchaku and kubotan available on the day both to borrow and to purchase. Videos The Videos section of the website is now online with our first round of videos. Click the "Videos" button and choose the video you want from the drop down menus. Any feedback can be given via the guestbook. Grading Well done to those who passed their brown belt gradings on Sunday (March 29th) and congratulations to Tom Lench for attaining his 1st dan black belt. Seminar Gordon Hogg is running an Edged Weapon Awareness Course at his Dojo in Wribbenhall on Saturday 14th March. For any more information contact Gordon. New Zealand Member! Kev McMahon, formally of Milton Keynes Sankukai Karate Club moved out to New Zealand last year and has now set up a Sankukai club down under. This club will be an overseas associate member of the B.S.K.A. (details will be added to the club contacts page soon). We wish Kev all the best with his new club. Old Sankukai Film Footage If you go to Sensei Tsukada's website via our links page you can find film footage of Sensei Nanbu and Sensei Tsukada demonstrating Sankukai back in 1975.You'll see that they perform Sankukai Sanbon Shodan and Randori Yondan. (Sensei Tsukada is the one getting hit!). The site is in French, just click on 'Bienvenue' and then 'Souvenirs' and you'll find it. Thanks for the footage has to go to Alan Carruthers and Sid Wise of East Midlands Sankukai who supplied the film from their archives. | 
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