December Newsletter
December & January classes now available to book classes via the APP
You can now book your lessons in for December 2021 and January 2022. The Club closes for our Winter break on Sunday 19th December and re-opens on Tuesday 4th January 2022.
Face Masks
It is not compulsory to wear a face mask when entering our dojo's but is highly recommended at this time. There has been no official guidance issued by the English Karate Federation at this time. As always, if anything changes, we will notify students immediately and comply with their guidance.
Class news this week:
Kumite Squad Class is on tonight 7.30-8.30pm at Abingdon Primary School in Reddish.
Holcombe Brook Thursday. This week (2nd December) will be at Emmanuel Church Centre, BL8 4DB (Canon Lewis hall) 6pm as usual. This is due to Parents evening at the school.
Elton class (3rd December) will be running at Chesham Primary School, Talbot Grove, Bury. BL9 6PH from 7pm-8pm. 6-7pm Chesham class will run as normal for those who prefer the earlier time. This is due to exam tables being i the Sports Hall.
New website and new social media
I am sure most of you will have seen that we have a brand new website (well you’re on it now!) built by Sempai Mark Jepson from the Stockton Heath Dojo. Thank you to all the students who have popped on to have a look and for all your kind comments. If you haven't already seen it, have a look:
Rob Head Sensei and Teresa Withington Sensei have been busy updating our social media accounts on a regular basis.
We have an Instagram page, Facebook Group page and a Twitter account.
Check them out if you haven't already. This is our easiest way to keep parents and students involved with what is going on in our classes. We've just had our Kata and Kumite competitions and there are plenty of medals winners with big smiles all over our social media!
Last shopping dates & Christmas Gift ideas
The last dates for ordering from our online shop are as follows:
Collect at class free of charge - Sunday 12th December
Delivery in time for Christmas - Thursday 16th December
We have plenty of Christmas gift ideas including belt racks (for delivery to class only), mitts and pads, new uniforms, Arawaza and Adidas top quality uniforms, holdalls and club Kappa tracksuit tops all available for immediate despatch.
WKF World Championships results
The WKF World Championships have taken place in November in Dubai. The karate on display was incredibly inspiring. These World-class athletes are training relentlessly, day in day out to reach this level. The EKF team unfortunately did not manage to medal at this event but there were some great performances from our English athletes.
Team Japan topped the table at the event with JKS Hombu Dojo Instructor Koji Arimoto Sensei winning a Team Kata Gold for the 2nd time. Arimoto Sensei has visited and taught at our Club in both 2016 and 2018 and our seniors have trained many times with him at the headquarters in Japan. He is also a Manchester City Fan (I might have made that up haha but he was very grateful for his top!).
We are delighted to see him enjoying the success he thoroughly deserves. He is exceptionally talented and a very humble person.
All results can be found here....
https://www.wkf.net/world-championships-main/senior/169
Highlights from the final day including Arimoto Sensei's incredible performance can be found on You Tube via this link:
The video is 8 minutes long but well worth the watch.
Student Licenses
We still have a large number of students training whose licenses have expired (licenses should be renewed every 12 months). Please can you check if your license is in date and renew as soon as possible if you are still training. We have to send through an accurate estimate of our membership to the EKF before the end of the year and there are far more students training than are licensed.
If you need to renew, please do so via this link.....
https://www.redtigerkarateclub.co.uk/shop/p/rtk-1-year-license-renewals
If you are a beginner and have completed more than 4 lessons you also need to get a license to continue training, please follow this link.....
https://www.redtigerkarateclub.co.uk/shop/p/rtk-1-year-license-new-members
Happy Training everyone :-)