The LKA had a party of 19 competitors compete as part of the JKS England Team at the 2012 JKS Ireland Open, held in Dublin. For many, it was the first time competing abroad. LKA competitors won three events in total. Ashley Scott beat team-mate Mell Finlay to win the Senior Female Kumite title. She [...]
Thursday 1st of March saw the Harrogate District Sports Awards and Annual Dinner. As always the club was well represented at the dinner with 21 members in attendance. The LKA senior teams took the top prize winning the districts best sporting team award. This is a fantastic achievement and something that all members can be [...]
It was with a huge degree of sadness that we learnt today of the death of Sensei Randy Williams 6th Dan. Randy was a team mate of Sensei’s Heald and Price for many years whilst they competed for Leeds Shotokan Karate Club under the guidance of Sensei Bob Rhodes. They were part of the same [...]
The LKA has decided, after much thought, that it is going to seek a new direction for it’s Karate and sadly end it’s affiliation to the KUGB. There are a number of factors which have led to this decision but not least is the opportunity to receive instruction from, and compete against, the very best [...]
Leeds Karate Academy celebrated a fantastic year in 2011 with an awards evening at the Styan Community Centre, Harrogate. The award for Most Improved Junior went to Sam Mitchell. Sam, a pupil at Harrogate Grammar School, gained his Black belt in 2011 and took his fist competitive medal at the North of England Championships. All [...]
Six LKA members and a number of supporters and family made the trip to Bielsko-Biala in southern Poland for the annual ESKA European Championships. Joe Finlay was competing in the Cadet events, Jordon Probst, Melissa Finlay and Stephen Brown were competing in the Junior events and Ryan Tucker and Ashley Scott were competing in the [...]
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 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. [...]