It seems like a lifetime ago since Soke Sensei’s Sunshine Coast visit. But finally, here’s a bit of a review. As always it was a great pleasure to have Soke Sensei visit the Sunshine Coast. Soke Sensei’s Australian visit commenced with training arriving on the Gold Coast Monday 18 May, where he taught evening classes
It’s been a while since my last blog post, so now it’s time to start catching up after a huge start to the year. Rather than writing one huge post right now. I’ll write lots of little ones give you all the details.
After much feedback from members and a lot of thinking we will be introducing a new training schedule for karate classes next week at Sunshine Coast Karate – Maroochydore dojo. For our most popular classes there are only very minor changes, making classes more accessable for teenagers, introducing another sports karate class in preparation for
For any martial arts buffs out there, here is a little gem that I stumbled across. Lots and lots of back issues of Black Belt Magazine.
Happy reading!
Did you read the Sunshine Coast Daily yesterday (Tue, 3 Feb 2009)? If not you missed a great half page article about our very popular Family Karate Classes at Sunshine Coast Karate, in the lifestyle section of the paper, which came about as a result of a huge team effort.
Every 3 years, the top competitors in Chito-Ryu world get together for the Chito-Ryu World Championships, also known as the Soke Cup. Since Chito-Ryu was introduced to the Sunshine Coast in 2000, our dojo has been represented at each Soke Cup. In 2001, Sensei Sandra was the sole representative, who went to Japan, placing 2nd in the Black Belt Women’s Kumite division. In 2004, the Soke Cup was in Australia and the Sunshine Coast dojo was well represented with 17 competitors, coming away with 4 gold medallists, most of whom had only been training for a few years. In the lead up to the 2007 Soke Cup in Norway, Sensei Sandra took on the role of coach for the national team, but due to the birth of Steven about a week before the tournament, Sensei Martin and Sensei Sandra did not attend, but there were still 3 representatives from the Sunshine Coast, with best result being 3rd place in Kata from Sempai Rhys in his age division. For anyone interested, a full listing of results from Sunshine Coast members is available on the website.
Our new Little Champions program is proving to be very popular already. Younger brothers and sisters of existing members are keen to get started, some of our younger existing members and new student are all excited about a special martial arts program designed specifically for 4-6 year old children.
I hope you’re ready, because we have been preparing a huge year ahead in the dojo for 2009. Those who have been back into the dojo in the last week would have seen the new paint job, and there has been a lot of positive feedback about the new trianing schedule in the last week
Next year is going to be a very big one for Sunshine Coast Karate. So to kick the year off with a bang, we have planned two special events for members and guests. For Kids (5-15yrs) we have planned a Kid’s night out, complete with gladiator games, pizza, karate training and more. Check out our
Just last weekend, we had our annual Christmas training day at Cotton Tree Park. It was a big day all around… Training in the park and the water Games for the kids organised by the Emmas (Emma Woodhouse & Emma Moehead) Association AGM A visit from Santa presents and all Free BBQ sausage sizzle put
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