Spring Gasshuku – Lydd, Kent 7-8 May 2022
An excellent turn out at this weekend’s Gasshuku in Lydd. Quite a few students were…
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Dover one day course Sunday 3 April 2022
Thanks to everyone who attended the 1 day course ran by Sensei Neville at Dover…
The “Leamington Licker” – The First British World Middleweight Champion since 1891
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New Dan Grades – Washinkai Karate Ireland – January 2022
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Instructors Christmas Dinner 2021
After the postponement of last year’s Instructors’ Dinner, we managed to hold it this year…
Meet the Chief Instructor
Chris Thompson
For over 40 years Shihan Chris Thompson has been at the forefront of Karate in England. Chris Thompson began studying karate in 1969 and remembers the date well as during his first class Neil Armstrong was orbiting and about to land on the moon.
During his early years he trained with many of the first Japanese Wado Ryu instructors to come to England and Europe. Instructors such as Suzuki, Fuji, Maeda and later Kiturma, Kobayashi and Shinohara all played a part in his early karate training.
