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Go to https://www.busa.org.uk dgo to the domextic sports Karate. then there is a like some where in there. good luck, I was looking at it but you have to be a full time student and I am only part time

wicked thats cool not sure were we are staying yet. some one said we may be staying in a casino!!!!!! possible where the competition is, I dont think we find out until about 14 day before, or I could be wrong!! well food sounds a good price then, but I dont think I will be drinking much over there. lol

thank you the katas I am doing are kankusho, unsu, gankaku, gojushio sho, soshin, jion, kankudai and nijushio thank you

that would be wicked, I am doing the hard styles kata male bb belt section, andi think my mate jason and lee would liek that 2, as i think we register on the saturday and we compete on the wednesday, and that is a really long wait. a local there would be good the furthest away i have been from home is paris, for 3 days, and i was frightened of getting lost. food wise i do like japaneze, normal food (paster, chips, burgers, pies) also healthy foods, it is just so i can get a rough price on how much money to bring as our hotel does not do breakfast!!!!!!!!!, i was gutted to hear they did not do breakfast. well i have to get the money to get over there first, hopefully see you over there, oli

WOW thank you every one so many great tips, i do try them all. so thank you every one, any more advise or tips or which are the best katas would be greatly accepted. thank you please

wicked well done for having a go, and also well done to the people who qualified, do you know where the competition is at all and any good, nights out around it. Also what are the prices of food, drink, beer, etc etc over there

yes i also use video, of many people, from competitions, to masters, to club and association collegues. Books are good for direction, and also the spelling and what moves are, helpful for when you teach it lol..

well done you do have guts. it is hard enough walking through the door of the dojo to start but even harder performing infront of all those people, as not many do. the nerves before a competition are horrible, especially if it is your first, so well done for having a go, it will not be as bad next time

The Jka and WKf provide some good books and also the one you mentioned is a good book, but all i would say dont try to learn from them, use them as a reference as my expeiance from people learning from books, they only give the finished product and not how to get there, good luck

Yeah I have heard of people keying, sanding, wire wooling their belts, it is total disrepecful, and should they be really wearing it, if they do that. I put mine down one and some one picked it up and started skipping with it I flipped my lid. My dad left his at the hall one (hes old and fogetful mind) and the play school who used the hall during the day cut it in two, CUT IT IN TWO, for teh children to place fire men, he had been wearing the belt for 20 odd year, he was deverstated, they said they would by him a new one. Yeah £4.50 from the local spoerts shop, sorry for the rant. Yeah i agree with you all its not on. Oli

I agree, it is a compliment, just treat them as normal, you never know, he might tell his friends and they might all come down too. As long as it go no further you will have no problems at all, it is worse when you fancy some one you are teaching!!

I was mine in the machine at about 4o degrees, and hand it to dry, strech it whilst its wet, as all my newer gi's appear to shrink!!

wow thanks for all the support some one asked which katas, well here i go Unso Kankusho Gan ka Ku Jion Kan Ku Dai Nijushio Sochin Empi Go jushio Dai Bassai Dai Jitte Jiin And some one else mentioned a book, any ideas where i could get that from. thank u every one

hi there thank very much, that means alot to me. You should enter japanese as well, you never know who will or wont turn up, or make a mistake. i am trying to beat jason, in the process of trying to train at the moment, but to much work to do. Yeah c u on the curcuit all the best

Hi every body, I hope you can help. WE train in a scout hut, so we do not have the pleasure of training on matts. We train on a softwood floor, which the "varnish" and "stain" and everything else that has been put on it has been rubbed of due the sand which the play school during the day uses. We have offered to send the floor down and re coat it, but the problem is with what. as it needs to do the following. Fill gaps None slippy Nice under foot, barefoot Hard wearing for foot, and table and chair traffic Non toxic, due to children Not much fumes or tixic when applied Stop the wood from splinttering Possible addaption to some glues to stick bits of floor down. I know this is a long list, but can any body help, any products and where to get them from and how much. I know matts would be a great apption but we dont have 3 or 4k to spend on them and any way there is no where to store them. Please please will some one "jim will fix it for me" ta muchly Oli

I have got a KWON Kata 16oz gi, it is good. But it appears to have shrunk in the wash. I have two kwon gi's and the newest has shrunk the most, the older own, has not moved at all, but other wise they are a good gi.

wow shorinryu sensei, you are one the first people apart from me, my mum and dad, wing it, every one else appears to do tge lesson plans, well at least for qualifications they do. well it works for me, aslong as i get the information accross, that is the main thing

Hi i have lessons plans just like every one else, but sometimes they go out of the windows and it all flows and comes of the top of my head. or the people you intend to do the class for dont turn up, thats annoying, but life. Tonight when i was teaching, we just made it up as we went along and it went really well. does any boby else do this at all

i am trying to train up for kata competition and i am finding it very hard, I generally know the kata's but getting them better is the problem. Has any one any tips. What do u use: Videos cameras Mirrors What do you work on How do you build up speed etc etc i will generally me training on my own, and sometimes as a group of differing people and grades. HELP

I love loads of kata but mostly i have to go jion, kankudai, nijushio, sochin, kankudai, unsu, gankaku. mostly for WKF rules or i pick for other rules,

the katas i use are unsu and kankusho they seem to work well on the curcuit.

also try http://www.kamikazeweb.com/index.php it not to bad for adidas and other makes

I have seen a few competitions were they wear the head shields and alot of people got him in the face, and i have been a alot of traditional karate competitions and not as many got him in the face. This is what i saw, sometimes the control would go out of the window as people were padded up and feel safe behind all the padding. ir was alot rougher. It may have been the competitions which I have gone to, and seen the worse of it. I guess it is swings and rounderabouts.

i can see both points of view here. But what type of gi's do people or your like to wear for kata, what feels good? i prefer a long skirt on the jacket, not to long arms and legs, and i am finding them hard to find as they tend to shrink in the wash. that does my head in.

I just googled it and i found this website, it looks about right. http://www.combatteam.com/belt.html