Updated 10/Feb/2012 

Membership of this friendly club is free and open to all*: you are welcome to come and observe a session without obligation to see if the club meets your needs. Additionally, your first session is free! Please don’t worry about feeling out of your depth or about being unduly held back in the sessions. After a joint warm up, sessions divide, with one instructor for the less experienced and another for the higher grades; you will always normally train with students close to your grade.

We cater to students of a wide range of experience and ability from novice to Dan grade. The club runs two general training sessions, a Junior training session and a kata session each week.

Training schedule

• Tuesday   6pm~7pm 

• Thursday 6pm~7.30pm with break for leavers at 7.00pm

• Saturday (1) Juniors only session (3pm~4pm)

• Saturday (2) FREE Kata session* (4pm~4.45) pm

• *Open to all who trained  in the week.

Younger members

The highly qualified, experienced instructors have a particular talent when it comes to training younger members on Saturdays. A sound foundation right from the start leads to solid progress through the grades later. Parents of younger students must ‘sit in’ on the sessions; session by session, they see the confidence, self discipline and physical skills of their children grow over time. Needless to say, this improvement carries over both into work and life in school and into social development. In the interests of health and safety, it is essential that students are at least five years of age and have already attended school. At the age of five there exists a wide range of maturation and it is vital that young students are able to satisfy their instructor as to their ability to understand and comply with basic instructions.

Personal responsibility
Members accept responsibility for the safety and well being of their fellows as a matter of course. Less obviously, members need to accept responsibility for their own safety and security as they progress through the grades towards more vigorous training activities: groin protectors are mandatory for males.  In matters relating to personal protection equipment, club members may seek guidance as below. 

Males   -    Sensei Palmer, Sensei Robins
Females  -  voluntary Information Officers  Julie and Amy

* Legalese: 

As you would expect, commonsensical terms and conditions apply:  Karate is a physical activity and the club will need to be assured  that an applicant is able to safely take part in club sessions without risk to self or to other students.  To this end, there is a  section of the membership application form which covers this.

After one month of membership, the member is obliged to apply for a licence and to renew it annually. (Currently £15 pa.) Again, the same commonsensical terms and conditions apply.