CFTS KARATE

I started Karate at the age of 16 on a 6 weeks beginner's course, which initially I found very difficult. It was in Newport Pagnell club...

Area gradings were held on Saturday and Sunday. It was a busy time for the grading examiners as there were a large amount of students...

Sensei Coppen of the Eastern area of CFTS has retired and Sensei Calver of the Western area has also decided to part company with CFTS....

Once again we were treated to another course by Sensei Randall. After warm-ups we started with Okori-jiyu-ippon combinations (which...

Another challenging and gruelling Dan Grading took place at Kempston on Saturday and, following a courageous display by the candidates,...

You find yourself casually standing in a half cat stance. You trip, go into a roll and come up in a fighting stance. In church. You...

Taken from a recent thread from the CFTS Forum: I was just thinking the other day of all the strange things that can go wrong during MA...

1. The wimp who made it through the elimination round on luck alone will suddenly turn into Bruce Lee when you're up against him. 2. The...

I began training in January 1985 with the Shotokan Karate Association under Sensei Roy Bantan and chief instructor Sensei Mick Randall. I...

June gradings came and went fairly uneventfully with the vast majority passing their grade successfully. For those that weren’t as...

Today was the day of my return to Balliol School - the first time that I have been here since my own Shodan grading in October 2005....

Sensei Holmes gave us another very interesting and entertaining course - which was very much enjoyed by all that attended. Thanks again...

I found Karate very much by chance. Neither of my parents were in any way interested in any form of exercise, in fact they had always...

Congratulation to all those students who successfully obtained their next belt at the recent gradings which were held over two weekends...

Once again, in the opinion of the senior dan grades, standards at the recent gradings had risen. This is proof that the progress record...

CFTS attended the competition organised by SKA (Shotokan Karate Association). Again it was well attended by CFTS karate-ka who all...

We were lucky again to get Shihan Finch to take us on another course - this time covering some bo work and some self-defence techniques....

Upcoming courses for this year: Please be aware of the following regarding ALL courses; Tickets must be purchased in advance from your...