Gold Medals for Ashin-do Kai at World Championships!

Yes, they did it again, our British Squad competitors took a haul of medals in Sweden - full report HERE

FOUR BRITISH CHAMPIONS at AMA National Championship!!

Ashin-do Kai students took four GOLD medals as well as a several bronze and silver at the AMA British National Karate Invitational Championships held at Sheffield on Sunday June 22nd. Click HERE for full report. 

The Return of the Tuesday Night Class - on a Wednesday!!

As of Wednesday June 4th, the old Tuesday night format of class will be returning. We have a new venue much closer to home and as such, hope all our former 'Tuesday Nighters' will find it more convenient and easier to attend.

The new Venue is the Compton Sports Centre just off Summers Ln in Nth Finchley, quite literally round the corner from the David Lloyd Centre.

To get to the centre, turn off Summers lane at the roundabout into the small road that goes to the Recycling centre adjacent to the rear entrance of Compton school. Before you reach the gates of the Recycling centre, you will see the Leisure centre on the left with a car park just beyond it.

This class is for adults of all abilities/levels and all junior students [under 16] of purple belt [4th Kyu] and above. All our brown and black belts are expected to attend this class and it will run as a squad style session.

Class times are 7-9pm, fees are as normal.

Look forward to seeing you all there!!

Students Do Their bit for Charity - May 2008

On Saturday May 3rd, 8 Ashin-do Kai students and their families attended a charity event in Elstree to raise money for Cancer Charities. Sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the event raised thousands of pounds and the final figure will be matched by RBS. Our students, Hunisha, Hanako, Nuri, Bethany, Annie, Devini, Navin and Kieran put on a demonstration of Kata for the audience which got a standing ovation. Choreographed by Hunisha with assistance from our Sensei's, Ricky, Marc and Anthony [all of whom also attended the event], they displayed not only various Kata moves, but the significance of each moves in terms of fighting and defence.

Afterwards everyone enjoyed some great food, and more demonstrations, including Irish Dancing, Belly Dancing and a fantastic Drum Band. The crowd then partied into the night.

A huge thanks to the students and parents that took the time and trouble to be part of this event, it was an amazing night and all for a great cause!

Videos Added!

Kyoshi Ricky visited Japan last year, and we now have videos of him demonstrating Kata at a Japanese Temple.