New Pages
Are you ready for 2015 yet? Success is in the planning - Click Here!
Gankaku-sho - Do you know this Kata?
SSKA - 1st Kyu to 5th Dan grading Syllabus (1st October 2009) (pdf format 570kb)
10th Kyu - White Belt?? Just Joined? - New Members Click Here
Now that you're a Brown Belt - 3rd to 1st Kyu
Now that you're a Green Belt - 3rd Kyu
Now that you're a Orange Belt - 9th to 5th Kyu
Tips on Training - 2nd Kyu to 1st Dan
Change of Address or Contact Details form
Dan Grading & Syllabus Information click here
History of Obi & Keikogi (Karate Belt Ranking system & Karate suits - Gi's)
Mokuso & Seiza (Clearing the Mind like Mushin or Meditation)
Bunkai (coming soon!!)
Being Attacked by a Dog
- The Law & Self Defence
Karate Styles & their Founding Fathers.
Quotes from Club Members
FREE Instructors Courses
Questionnaire for club members - thoughts about the benefits of Karate
Teaching Karate from a Wheelchair (& Cerebral Palsy)
Ultimate Aim of Karate - Perfection of Character.
Shotokan Karate Black Belt - Film Star Celebrities
History of the SSKA.
Karate Keizo (Lineage of Shotokan Karate)
A new & improved History page about Shotokan Karate with a more detailed & accurate account of it's growth over the last 500 years & the people who brought it into existence. Also a new lineage chart of how modern day karate developed.
Differences between Shotokan & other major karate styles & the reasons for these differences.
Karate in the London 2012 Olympic Games?
The Caversham Kata - a little bit of post-grading fun, 8th March 2008
The Bracknell Kata - a little bit of post-grading fun, 19th October 2012
If you have any comments or suggestions about the above subjects, I would always gladly welcome your input & feedback. If there is a subject related to Shotokan Karate that you would like researched further & put up on this site, please let me know.
page last updated on Wednesday 16 November 2016