The Wareham and Purbeck Karate club offers training and grading in Shotokan Karate. We run a busy and enjoyable class for our junior members, followed by an intensive 2-hour session for the seniors. Our instructor is 5th Dan Sensei Glyn Morgan. We train at Springfield Sports Club, just outside Wareham, on Monday and Thursday evenings. New members and visiting members from other clubs are always welcome.

The club is part of the JKAE, the Japan Karate Association England. The JKAE itself is part of the international JKA, headquartered in Japan. This means that our students can be sure they are receiving the highest standard of training. It also allows any of our members to train at any other JKAE or JKA club in the world, and find the same teaching standards and syllabus in practise there. All our instructors hold an enhanced CRB check and instructors insurance.

Karate is great for kids and adults, for exercise and for building self-confidence and self-discipline. It is also an effective self-defence system. Our club is friendly and sociable, with the opportunity to travel and meet members of other clubs at gradings, competitions and courses.

Please explore the links at the top of the page to learn more about our club, and maybe we'll see you at one of our sessions soon.

ALL GRADES KATA COURSE - BOROUGHBRIDGE NORTH YORKSHIRE

On Saturday 18th July Sensei Morgan showed incredible dedication to his Karate by driving over 600 miles to attend this course headed up by Sensei Ohta 7th Dan JKAE Chief Instructor. This course was held to make sure JKA England student who live this far North get a chance to receive top instruction without travelling all the way south to the London area. In fact Sensei Morgan was the only student south of London to attend the course!

These National courses really are a great way to improve your Karate and make new friends. All students should take note of Sensei's dedication and try to find the time to attend as many of these courses as they are able to in the future.

A full course report from the JKAE web site can be found here.

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - K2 CRAWLEY LEISURE CENTRE

Well done to all who attended the Nationals at the super new K2 venue at Crawley on Saturday July 3rd. The experience of competing at this level is guaranteed to benefit the student in many ways. Special congratulations go to juniors Michael and William Selby and Rianna and Rebecca Varney for all showing very good technique and strong spirit. Fifth place in the team Kata... excellent! and Rebecca going through to the evenings finals in front of a large crowd (including proud parents) to take fourth place in Kata was brilliant!

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ATTENTION ! - ATTENTION ! - ALL STUDENTS:

The next Training Course and Kyu Grading is on Saturday 15th May. Instruction is from Sensei Ohta 7th Dan JKAE Chief Instructor.

Please attend if possible - whether grading or not. This is your chance to train and benefit from Sensei Ohta's superb Instruction.

The venue is the IBM Centre at Hursley. Click 'TRAINING' button above for directions.

Training times are 10.30 - 12.00am Black and Brown Belts, 12.00 - 1.00pm All Grades (Black and Brown Belts may continue to train).

Kyu Grading will start at 2.00pm.

Note there are good eating facilities here.

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SPRING 2010 KARATE COURSE - GUILDFORD

Well done to all those who attended this Bank Holiday Weekend Course. Everyone couldn't have failed to benefit from the world class instruction from Mori Sensei 8th Dan, Osaka sensei 8th Dan, Naka Sensei and of course Ohta Sensei (Recently promoted to 7th Dan). This was one of the best courses for a long time. Please everyone try to attend these courses, they are very enjoyable and definitely improve your technique !

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BATH TRAINING & GRADING COURSE

The latest All Grades Training Course at Bath University on Sunday 21st March proved to be an enjoyable and successful course. Thanks to all the club members who attended. See the JKAE website for a full report and photos. See 'Achievments' for successful grading candidates.

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KYU GRADING

An extremely demanding but enjoyable training course was held on Sunday 14th February. Chief Instructor Sensei Ohta 6th Dan gave us all some superb instruction especially on punching and stepping combinations, first alone and then in pairs. This soon warmed everyone up despite the very cold conditions!

All students who attempted a grading passed, so well done to you all! Thanks also go to all those who made the effort to attend for just the training, the first class instruction is sure to improve your karate!

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BACK TO TRAINING AFTER CHRISTMAS

Training has certainly not been easy following the Christmas break! Snow and freezing weather has made leaving a warm home and trekking off to the dojo a real pain!

Training has been very painful too! as Sensei Morgan (centre of picture) has been putting everyone through extra fitness training in between intensive Basic, Kata and Kumite practice. Perfect for getting everyone back into the swing of things!

Some of the club's Blackbelts after training are still even managing to smile!

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KYU GRADING

A training course and Kyu grading was held on Sunday 8th November at the IBM centre at Hursley. Instructor for the course was Sensei Adel Ismail 5th Dan who provided everyone with a superb and inspiring lesson.

Concentrating on correct form and etiquette he took us through each kata step by step emphasising the important points and giving detailed explanations of many of the techniques. Sections of each kata were practiced many times until we began to reach his very exacting standards!

Things to remember were: Keep hips level, correct expansion and contraction of the body, correct hip rotation, position of the hikite (returning) arm and to be aware and alert throughout the kata from the very beginning to the very end!

This excellent training had a good effect on all the students grading as they all passed!…. Well done!