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Interesting Info for Parents
A healthy active childhood: giving children the best chance of a cancer-free future – 2009 Published for World Cancer Day 2009 the highlights of the report are explanations of the link between cancer and excess body weight, poor diet and physical inactivity. Calls on parents, teachers, and decision-makers to take action now to encourage healthy [...]
Fantastic info for elders & betters
Not so relevant for our current membership but it’s so good it’s worth sharing with parents/grandparents (with delecacy!) Actually, I suspect everyone could learn something from this site! This guide shows many types of exercise and physical activity. It also has lots of tips to encourage activity in ways that suit different lifestyles, interests, health, [...]
Survey
Hi All We’ve done something big again! The dojo has become so demanding of Chris’s time we had to either scale back or go whole hog! In the spirit of Kyokushin (or Gower!) we of course went whole hog! Effective late Jan, Chris has ditched his day job so he can concentrate entirely on the [...]
End of year
I’m a bit blogged out after catching up on the last few months but I’ve been wanting to blog the end of year gradings because they were a real highlight of the year, seniors and, especially, juniors. It’s been almost 10 years now so we’ve watched (sometimes helplessly, sometimes with astonishment) as the culture at [...]
Junior Gradings
Congratulations to all the members of the junior dojo who graded in the last 2 weeks of term. The evening gradings were short & sweet & possibly belied the work that had gone in during term and the assessments the kids have been going through in recent weeks. The kids are looking stronger than they [...]



