We were honoured to welcome Hanshi Jo Biggs, ably assisted by Renshi Mark Craddock to the Dojo. We focused on the strategies involved in countering a knife attack including avoiding attacks before they occur, awareness of the surroundings, equalising the situation and balance. We also debated the relative merits of alternative defences and
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After the greetings in Chinese and Japanese for mutual respect, Master Rob Simpson, Director General of the Institute for Chinese Martial Arts, took the senior grades through a kung fu style stretching session geared towards flexibility and strengthening of the joints – this was going to be a seminar exploring “chin na”, or joint locking
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The Luton Lunatics were honoured to welcome Sensei Peter Spanton to the dojo for his annual seminar. We were also very pleased to have guests from a number of other dojos and also from the Rokakai federation join us for the day. We started off with the brown and black belt session. The focus
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Once again it seems like only yesterday since we were last in Ogwen and preparing for Alex and Hayley to take their next grades. The year has sped by; this would be my 21st year in Ogwen which now makes me feel old as I first attended when I was 20. This year we
The Luton Lunatics were once again honoured to welcome Sifu Rob Simpson to the dojo as their guest instructor. Rob is one of the world’s leading shaolin kung fu masters and his seminars always prove to be enlightening and a little frightening. The seminar was four hours long again this year and we covered
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John Hurley Well as normal the Ogwen Bank course takes ages to get here and is finished in a blink of an eye, this one was no exception as it was the 40th Year the Ogwen course had been running. We had 12 of the Luton Lunatics in attendance (john” the Bosh” Hurley, Alex
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