Roffey Karate Club

As some of you will know a Dan (Black belt) Grading was held at Roffey on Sunday October 2nd. There were four students taking part, three going for 1st Dan and one for 3rd Dan. I am very pleased to say that all were successful. Roffey now has it's second 3rd Dan Sensei Colin Jackson, who assists with teaching at many classes.

We also have three new Sensei's, Sensei Richard Fitton (who we won't see for a while as he had to leave straight after his grading to start life at Cambridge University) Sensei John Mathews and Sensei Darren Malpas both of whom turn up early on a Tuesday and help with the teaching.

Congratulations to them all and a special thanks to Sensei Andy Coe (3rd Dan)for coming over from Hampshire to sit on the examination panel and also to Sensei Paul Lucas (2nd dan) who partnered Sensei Colin and took part in the Kumite section of the grading.

The grading took almost 3 hours and consisted of 10 sections covering basics, blocks, kata as well as the presentation of a Kata Bunkai, self defence and kumite.

I hope to put some photos up on the site very soon.

Sensei Phil

Sensei Ray Field 5th Dan of the English Wado federation travelled down from the Midlannds to teach at Roffey karate Clubs Saturday class.
Some 20+ students attended the class and Sensei Ray gave insights into Kihon techniques and Kata assisted by Roy one of his Senior Students.
The session was much appreciated and all those attending worked hard and found the session enjoyable and informative.
Sensei Ray gave up a considerable part of his weekend to travel down and this was valued by all the students

WE HAVE FINALLY COMPLETED THE FIRST DVD SHOWING OUR SYLLABUS FROM RED BELT TO 1ST DAN BLACK BELT.
THE DVD SHOWS ALL THE BLOCKS AND ALL THE KATA. IT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THE SOLE AIM OF ASSISTING YOU TO PROGRESS THROUGH THE GRADES. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING A COPY PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THE COST IS JUST £5, THIS COVERS PRODUCTION / EDITING COSTS ONLY.

The grading this Sunday was very successful with over 20 students moving up a grade.
There were several students for whom this was their first grading so for them a nerve-wracking event. We had quite a large audience which made it even harder.

Well done to all of you for your achievement you should be very proud of yourselves. I know that all the Instructors were very impressed with your focus and effort. WELL DONE!!!

If anyone has any photos of the grading I can get them put in a gallery on the website, so just send them along to me either on a disc or by email.

Sensei Phil

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE SECOND OF A SERIES OF COURSES AIMED AT HELPING THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL BE GOING FOR ANY BROWN BELT GRADE OR FOR A DAN GRADING IN THE COMING MONTHS.
WE WILL FOCUS ON THE BLOCKS, KATA AND TECHNIQUES YOU WILL NEED.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LIST ON THE NOTICEBOARD IF YOU ARE GOING TO ATTEND.

WE CAN ONLY RUN THESE COURSES WITH YOUR SUPPORT.

ANY QUERIES CONTACT SENSEI PHIL

Sensei Andy Coe became the first student to train with Roffey karate club through to his 3rd Dan Black belt. what made this extra special for Andy was that is son Jamie also graded to 1st Dan Black belt at the same time.
The grading took almost three hours and as ever was a test of skill, technique, knowledge, endurance and spirit.

This brings the number of students to achieve their Black belt with Roffey to 22,and although some of these are not able or around to train at present there martial arts path started with Roffey Karate Club and their achievements with us will always be with them. This also shows that many of you have the focus and dedication to pursue a path which is often difficult, often painful and always demanding, but which creates in you a spirit that will always be of benefit and shows to the outside world just what you can achieve.

So to those of you who are just starting on your Karate do journey I would say again that all of you have the ability to become a black belt, what you need is the belief that you can get there and the spirit to get there.

Fuyu wa Tsutomete ( work hard)

ROFFEY KARATE CLUB HELD ITS ANNUAL AWARDS FOR 2011 TUESDAY 10TH JANUARY. This year Dorking Service Centre who have supported and sponsored us for over 10 years have regretfully had to take a step back. However we were very fortunate as SIRIC Communications (www.siric.com) in the form of Simon Law stepped up and sponsored our awards for 2011. This is a much appreciated and generous action and I am sure we are all thankful of this support.
All the classes were well attended so there were around 60 students and many parents to see the awards given out.
I have often said and I firmly believe that it is what you put into your karate that should be noted and rewarded. Not all of us are blessed with natural ability in the things we do so it is your attitude to your training that becomes absolutely vital to your progress.
We are very lucky at Roffey to have a great atmosphere in the club and therefore a great amount of Effort, Spirit and consequently Improvement. I am very proud of the way you all strive to progress in your Karate and pleased to have so many Black Belts who continue with the same enthusiasm they had as Red Belts. Well done to all those who received awards and well done to every other student. The following students received awards for the attributes.

Medallions were awarded to the following
Tom Ralph, Adam Fitter, Charlotte Taylor, Dominic O'Dell, Patrick Daly, Rhys Graves, Lizzie Blackburn and Bayley Smith.

Awards for Effort: Senior Russell Orgill, Holly Stinton
Junior Mikey Goldthorpe, Fraser Relleen,

Awards for Spirit Senior Athol Abrahams Anish Hurynag
Junior Thomas Claridge Charlie Sheppard

Awards for Improvement Senior Lorna Flintham
Junior Izak Varey

Award for Outstanding Improvement Alexandra Messenger

Outstanding Junior Student for 2011 was Antonia Besu
Outstanding Senior Student for 2012 was Victoria Strelciunate

Well done to you all

I will post photos from the evening in our Galleries as soon as I can

Roffey Wadokai Awards 2010 StudentsRoffey Wadokai Awards 2010 Students

I hope many of you will remember our Sponsored Press Ups for Charity back in 2010. We have revived this in 2012. Most of you have had sponsorship forms and I am sure you have been getting in some practice. In 2010 those taking part completed over 3000 pressups under the Instructors watchful eyes. I am sure we can beat that amazing total and raise even more money for Charity in 2012.

I have handed out Sponsorship Forms so please try to get your friends and families to sponsor you. You can set your target so give yourself something to go for but don't make it impossible, it is like your Karate you need to have goals you can reach.

The Press Ups will be taking place in classes over the 2 weeks from Saturday 25th February to Thursday 8th March. Please ensure you bring your sponsorship forms to those classes.

If you have any queries please let me know.