First web update for some time after what has been a very busy period for the Welsh Bushi-Kai and its students. What follows is a set of reports on the various events that have taken place recently.<\/p>\n
Brown Belt Course \/ Grading<\/strong> WBK Squad Training<\/strong> WKU Invitational Tournament<\/strong> Photos of these and other events will be added to the galleries in due course. The “Photos” pages are currently being re-established after going AWOL due to a technical issue ….. \u00a0around 50% are back on line, including Shihans photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First web update for some time after what has been a very busy period for the Welsh Bushi-Kai and its students. What follows is a set of reports on the various events that have taken place recently. Brown Belt Course \/ Grading During the Month of April, two Brown Belt courses took place at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDuring the Month of April, two Brown Belt courses took place at the Baglan Dojo under the Instruction of Percy Brown and Paul Bridge.
\nThese courses were structured so that all aspects of the grading were covered, with particular attention paid Ohyo and Kihon Kumite plus Advanced Kata. Course Intructors were very impressed with the effort and commitment shown by the students and significant improvements were noted. These courses were planned as the final preparation for the Grading \u00a0held on May 11th.
\nThe Grading itself, held at our Cwmafan Club dojo proved to be a great success, with some 28 students attempting their grade examination. We are delighted to report that there was a 100% Pass rate and passes \u00a0by grade are as follows:
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\n<\/strong>3rd Kyu: \u00a06 senior, 13 Junior
\n2nd Kyu: \u00a01 Senior , 7 Junior
\n1st Kyu: \u00a01 Junior<\/p>\n
\nOn April 28th, the WBK held the first in a series of Kata and Kumite Squad Training sessions, this one at our Neath Dojo, in Ysgol Hendre School, Bryncoch
\nOver 40 students attended the session which proved to be a great success. The Kata session was conducted by WBK Kata Coach, Mark Coleman, and was centered around the Pinan Katas.
\nFor the Kumite Session, the students were put through their paces by Gareth Reynolds. Gareth has been one of the top fighters in the UK for well over a decade and we are extremely grateful to him for taking time out of his busy schedule and for traveling down from Bristol to instruct on the course.<\/p>\n
\nOn May 5th, Our Kumite Coach, Nigel Taylor, took a small squad from the Bushi-Kai to \u00a0the Western Karate Union Event held in Weston-Super-Mare. This event has grown in stature and size over the years and is now one of the main events on the competition calendar which this year saw 750 competitors in action, including many National & International athletes.
\nOur Squad put in a great show and returned home with 1 Gold & 3 Bronze Medals.
\nRobyn Davies – Gold – Girls 5-7 yrs Kumite
\nNic Hole – Bronze – Male Kumite 16-17 yrs
\nRosie Irwin – Bronze – Female Kumite upto 4th Kyu
\nLauren Stanford – Bronze – female Kumite -60kg<\/p>\n