VIDEOS
Bushido Wado-Ryu Karate Club Videos
Alec (in the white gi) in action at the 2024 South Coast Combat Karate Championships, where he went on to win Gold
Conditioning the legs to deliver and take kicks
Juniors practising head movement and counter striking safely with focus pads
3rd Kyu Sianna putting a junior grade through his paces with some light sparring practice
3 kumite gold medals for our club at the South Coast Combat Karate Championships 2024
We always finish with a sparring session in our Saturday morning class.
Practising their kicks and strikes – our Little Ninjas class is for children from Reception to Year 3 age
Our Little Ninjas practising their blocks
Sensei Ben teaching our Little Ninjas how to deliver a new kick
Our Little Ninjas class is a dedicated class for juniors from Reception up to and including Year 3
We have loved running our new Little Ninjas class for Reception – Year 3 students
Tuesday evening training at our Witchampton dojo. For students age 7+ of all abilities
Junior grades practising bracing the torso against a front kick
Sempai Alec leads a sparring combination practice drill
Different grades getting into groups to practise their latest kata
2nd brown belts (2nd Kyu) learning Bassai. (There are 3 brown belt levels)
The tornado kick: jodan mawashigeri, with a spinning hook kick follow-up: jodan uramawashigeri
Chudan mikazukigeri – the crescent kick can be used defensively – potentially to disarm an armed assailant
Gedan mawashigeri – practising delivering leg kicks with the correct (upper) part of the shin
A drill to practise being surrounded by more than one attacker
Andrew demonstrates the head‑height roundhouse kick (jodan mawashigeri) with a trigger movement designed to look like the kick is going low to the leg.
Sempai Andrew training his partner on how to read which height a roundhouse kick (mawashigeri) is coming in at.
Andrew practises escaping from underneath an attacker and trying to establish a dominant position
Eve learning to add power to her jab by lunging forwards to deliver it: this strike is called tobikomizuki
The secret to fast karate movement is relaxing between techniques. Rich is practising this between gyakuzuki strikes – reverse punches
Sensei Ben practising tobikomizuki – the lunging jab punch
Spinning kicks: Andrew demos a head‑height crescent kick (jodan mikazukigeri) with a spinning hook kick follow‑up (uramawashigeri)
Sensei Ben coaches junior grade William in a slowed‑down overload training drill
Sempai Andrew introduces a recent joiner to a basic sparring combination
Light sparring practice, to play around with linking different techniques
Our Sempais (senior grade students) actively support and coach our junior grades
2 v 1 sparring practice
Beginner’s overload training
Grappling & ground work practice
Free sparring (jiyu kumite) at our Tuesday evening training at our Witchampton village hall dojo
Black belts sparring (jiyu kumite) at Tuesday evening training at our Witchampton village hall dojo
South Coast Combat Karate Championships May 2023
Seoi nage – the shoulder throw
Forearm conditioning drill
Beginner Jacob (in the white gi) in action in his kumite section at the South Coast Applied Karate Championship 2022
Beginner Angkor (in the blue belt) in action in his kumite group at the South Coast Applied Karate Championship kumite 2022
A junior grade practising basic sparring techniques
Pairwork training in our fantastic new Saturday venue
Adult new joiners sparring. Their prior martial arts is clear!
Nage waza: takedown work
Training the 4 basic blocks in sequence
Pairwork: drilling defensive responses, including footwork and positioning
More pairwork training – aiming for mushin (‘no mind’), where responses become automated, based on muscle memory
Sparring basics
Practising jodan mawashigeri: the head-height roundhouse kick
The ‘Superman punch’!
Uchimawashigeri: the inside -out roundhouse kick can be hard to see coming
Bag work
Ne waza: ground work
Koshi: using hips to initiate strikes and generate speed and power
Practising head movement – to avoid over-reliance on blocks
Focus pad training
Practising ‘covering’, rather than blocking
Adding power to strikes and kicks
Midweek training at our Witchampton dojo
David is not really a white belt…as you can see!
Junior belts sparring
Practising takedowns and submissions
Covering and counter attacking
Practising head-height kicks
Uramawashigeri: the hook kick
Juniors learning to spar
Ukemi waza – training breakfalls… the shoulder roll
Focus pad training
First tournament kumite experience for beginner, Archie!
Swim noodles provide a safe way to do overload training
Charlotte refining her head-height roundhouse kick: jodan mawashigeri
Beginner white belts learning how to spar
Slap pad goes flying! Watch the pair in the background…
Overload training with focus pads
Focus pad drills
Slowing things down with pairwork training – to try out defence and counter attack combinations
Karate students (karateka) shouldn’t neglect their grappling skills, in case it comes to this in a self-defence situation
Hente: using the same hand twice. Here an option for dealing with a jab-cross attack is being drilled, blocking both with the front guard hand.
Generating power in head-height kicks through good rotation and firing the kick from the hips
Head movement drill – for evading and countering
Bag and pad work
Practising tai sabaki: whole body movement – learning to reposition yourself efficiently in kumite
Padwork – to try out combinations without holding back on the power
