Winter Gasshuku - Nuffield Chichester - 10-11 February 2024

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The Gasshuku was held at the Nuffield Fitness Centre in Chichester, with 7 Club Instructors plus students ranging in grades from 6th kyu to 7th Dan in attendance.  

Saturday's training was very demanding and culminated in several Dan gradings taking place.  All successfully passed and in the evening, students went to a local restaurant to celebrate.

Sunday's course had the Association's new Chief Referee, Sensei Neil Benton giving a lecture on the WKF rules.

Karate and Jujitsu - event at Dover Karate Club

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We were very honoured to have Sensei Steve and some of his students visit and train at our Washinkai dojo.   
Sensei Steve runs a traditional Japanese style Jujitsu club which I'm fortunate to be part of.  We started  the evening with a brief outline of Washinkai Karate before a very enjoyable  collaboration  moving occasionally from Washinkai techniques into a jujitsu technique, You can see some jujitsu techniques are already in the Washinkai syllabus in various pairs.                 

Washinkai Instructors Christmas Dinner - December 2023

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The final event for many of the Washinkai Instructors was our annual dinner held for the second year running in Surrey.

It was a lovely event and a chance for all tutors of Washinkai to bid farewell to Sensei Neville Smith, 8th Da, who moves to Scotland in the New Year.  He has not completely retired from the group and plans to return regularly for special events, as well as our Summer Gasshuku.

After another successful year with a lot of growth, we are looking forward to another strong year in 2024.