Eleven LKA Karate-ka have just booked flights to once again go and train at the ‘Home’ of Karate, Japan. We were originally scheduled to go in April this year, but due to the Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami and Nuclear crisis, our trip was cancelled. The re-booked trip will take place in late March 2012, a [...]
The LKA took our adults Squad plus a small handful of our best child competitors down to Loughborough for the Karate England Nationals. This was an excellent chance to compete against a wider range of competitors from other association and styles. Interestingly, with this being an Open event, there was a representation there from the [...]
The LKA had a squad of 45 competitors take part in this years event, once again held at the University of Sunderland. It was undoubtedly our most successful outing at this event, with 7 Gold medals taken amongst a total of 25 different medal positions. There were a number of categories where we completely dominated. [...]
The LKA sent a Squad of 28 competitors to the KUGB Shotokan Cup, which was held in Chesterfield on 24th September 2011. We took 3 Gold Medals, 4 Silver and 4 Bronze, which was an excellent effort, particulalrly considering that 5 of our top competitors weren’t there. Many congratulation must go to Emelye O’ Brien who [...]
Sensei’s Nick Heald and Matt Price were invited to perform a demonstration at the JKS World Championships which were held in Edinburgh in September 2011. It was a great honour to be asked to do this in front of Kagawa Sensei and many of the leading figures of Shotokan Karate from all over the world. [...]
The LKA had 5 of its members compete for the KUGB England Team at the Bi-annual WSKA Championships, which were held in Chicago, Illinois this time round. This was very impressive as the LKA contingent made up 1/3 of the total squad which went to compete. It was highly pleasing that 3 of our 5 [...]
Recently the LKA has made a charitable donation to our Zulu friends in South Africa. This came about after an old Leeds Karateka and good friend of Sensei’s Heald and Price, Charley Hesse contacted us. He said, that after many years roaming the world, he had settled in South Africa and opended a Karate Club in [...]
The LKA Hombu Dojo was packed on Monday 4th July for the visit of our good friend Alan Campbell 6th Dan, Chairman of the JKS in England. The main theme for Alan’s instruction for the evening was relaxation and the generation of power from the hips. Alan’s relaxed and humorous way of instructing put everyone [...]
The LKA took a Squad of 37 competitors to Chesterfield for the annual KUGB Youth Championships. We had an excellent set of results taking 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze medals. Perhaps most pleasing was the fact that there were two all-LKA Kumite finals. Firstly Emelye O’Brien beat Holly Dickinson to the Girls Over [...]