Honiton-based, “Say Yes To Life” Karate club came Runners-up in the medal table at the annual Seiwakai Open International Karate tournament in London on Sunday at the club’s very first competitive appearance.
Say Yes To Life teaches traditional Goju-Ryu Karate (as seen in the original Karate Kid movie with ‘Mr Miyagi’ and ‘Daniel Son’). Sport karate is only occasionally taught which makes the team’s success at the tournament even more noteworthy.
In total, the club entered 26 competitors in 43 events to represent England against countries such as Holland, Hungary, Poland,...
Last weekend, East Devon’s fastest growing traditional Karate club marked its 2 year anniversary with a prestigious Seminar and grading event at LED’s Ottery St. Mary Leisure Centre.
More than twenty (Japanese-graded) black-belt Karate Instructors from across the UK and Europe for a special celebration event in honour of the late Shihan Leo Lipinski (8th Dan), who passed away this year. SYTL (Say Yes To Life) Karate was launched by Sensei Paul Batters (Japanese graded black-belt) in September 2016 with the aim of providing the highest standards of Martial Arts, to the widest range...
A prestigious international karate seminar will come to Ottery St Mary next month, hosted by East Devon’s SYTL (Say Yes To Life) Karate Club. The Seiwakai International Karate Seminar is being held at LED’s Ottery Leisure Centre on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September, with up to 150 local karate students and those from across the country taking part. The seminar is in memory of the late Shihan Leo Lipinski, who taught karate to SYTL founder Paul Batters and was the highest graded Non-Japanese 8th Dan Blackbelt in the style of JKF Gojukai. It is also a warm up seminar for the Seiwakai...
Two Exeter parents have joined forces to provide fun and affordable exercise classes for children and adults of all fitness levels.
From baby ballet to kickboxing, from karate to tap dance, there is an activity on offer at the DanSci studio for anyone with a desire to get fit.
Tim Anderson of UK Martial Arts & Fitness has moved his kickboxing, karate and weapons classes and gym to the spacious, air conditioned DanSci studio headed up by Ava Barron Thomas.
Black belt Tim has been a martial arts fitness instructor for 8 years. He said that both Ava and he were...
Master Ken is coming over from the States to give one of his unique "Martial Arts" Seminars Master Ken is the Star of the YouTube series Enter The Dojo, which has had over 5 million views to date. For those who don’t know about this show yet, let me promise you that you are missing one of the most hilarious things going right now on the internet, and Matthew Page has created a fantastic character in Master Ken, an amalgam of many “McDojo” instructors, and the show has an eclectic and funny group of people, and the actors who portray them bring a lot to the show, but show creator...
