As usual, the Junior Luton Lunatics celebrated X-Mas at Pizza Hut. There was plenty of pizza and ice cream. Attendance may have been a little low as it was directly after a very hard grading and the kids may have been a little tired!
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Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Alex Buxton (3rd Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a larger grading with 15 hopefuls. The overall standard and energy were very high from start to end and the judges were very impressed. Performances of note were George Palmer who really shone and showed a lot
On Sunday 6th December Luton Higashi once again had the pleasure of hosting Sifu Rob Simpson’s annual visit to our Dojo. Whilst attendance was not at the height that it had been on previous years, it was never the less well received by all grades that participated. The higher grades we taught the
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Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a lower grade grading and all the gradees did well and were duly promoted to their new grades. Pawel Danielewicz performed notably and was awarded a 1st class pass. Congratulations on your promotions!
We have a lot of brilliant guest trainers visit us at the club, we learn and laugh a lot and our most recent visit was from Glen who gave us a small glimpse into Silat. We started with blocking attacks to the head then throwing a counter attack for our partner to block. At
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Well, here we are on the Friday, 2nd day home after returning from Ogwen 2015. I’m sat in Costa with a coffee wondering where the heck those four days went? They always pass so quickly, those days of intense karate training and hard work, when you’re so focused on executing each kick, block and punch
Judging Panel: John Hurley (4th Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a lower grade grading and it was good to see so many students off the starting blocks with their first belt! All the gradees did well and were duly promoted to their new grades. The performance of the day went to Stephen
It was a somewhat smaller Xmas party this year for the Lunatics as only 10 of us made it to Jimmy’s this time for the annual festive celebration. As so many big events had happened to the club this year is was great to see that the instructors and students could still get together
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It was a great day for the Luton Lunatics as three of its members were upgraded at the December Kata Course run by Sensei Peter Spanton (8th Dan). Following the short kata course, Sensei John Hurley was honored to be awarded his 5th Dan. Then the hopefuls lined up for their grading. Luton fielded Danni
Grading Panel – John Hurley (5th Dan), Alex Buxton (3rd Dan), Danni Noble (2nd Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan), Omari Asein (1st Dan) This was a small grading with only four hopefuls. They all impressed the judges significantly to be awarded their new belts. The performance of the day went to Stacey Lever who,
