The Komuso System News

We have now finally created our own video channel on you tube. I have published a few items and a very amateur video advert. More items will be published soon including tourney footage and fight training sessions.

Here is the link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOzLz4t0_M

Alternatively navigate to YouTube and type in TKSUKMA should take you straight there.

Best regards,

Chris.

Welcome back guys Lessons start again for the Autumn term. Thursdays from 8.00 until 9.30 at the Scout Hall see Map and a new session starts on a Sunday from 10.00 until 12.30 at the Martial Arts Academy, Emsworth Road Shirley, see Map.

Thursdays will be the normal blend of fitness, Syllabus and combat with a real focus upon grading this term. I want to be even more stringent about the way we practice for belt gradings to ensure the quality of the learning.

Sundays will be a similar idea however, more time devoted to syllabus training, form work and understanding between 10.00 and 11.30 with a fight training clinic between 11.30 and 12.30.

Also there will be a training course during the October half term to cover weapons combat. More details to follow....

All the best
Chris

Well the lads gone and done it!

Congratulations to Jacob and Laura who got married this summer. A superb reception, everyone had a good time, the bride was beautiful, the groom......well we all know Jake!

Seriously guys!! Congratulations to you both from all of us at the club.

'I can see whats happening,
and they don't have a clue,
they'll fall in love and here's the bottom line,
out trios down to two,
the sweet caress of twilight,
there's magic everywhere,
and with all this romantic atmosphere,
disaster's in the air,

and if he falls in love tonight,
it can be assumed,
his care free days with us are history,
in short our pal is doomed!!'

Timone and Pumba Disney's the Lion King

All the best for the future guys.

Chris and the gang at TKS.

Please take the time to fill in this questionnaire. It is completely annonymous and the information will help me when planning out lessons etc.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=rVNZi3CXcanZ8DJBDRxdvpw

Many thanks,

Chris

Hi Guys,

Just a quick note to let you know when where and how to train this summer. Summer training at the Scout Hall finishes on Thursday 23rd July. This will be our last lesson and the date for our final Tourney of the year.

I will be holding training sessions on Tuesday evenings at 'Deer Leap' as per last year. These sessions will start on Tuesday 18th August until Tuesday 1st September. Winter Training begins again on Thursday the 3rd September at the Scout Hall.

Our Next Grading will be on Thursday 16th July and is for all to attend. I will notify those of you who will qualify to take the grading. For the rest of you it is an excellent opportunity to catch up on syllabus training.

Best Regards and keep training,

Chris

Congratulations are due to all those who attended the grading a number of weeks ago now. The standard of all who participated was pretty good.

Special congratulations should go to; Erik, Dane, Penny & Gean Hitchcock for achieving their red belts, Dan G for Orange and last but by no means least Shannon & Sam Hitchcock for Green Belt.

Those of you who merely participated, your time was not wasted, as it was a good opportunity for me to assess your level. It is good to do this at each grading, as it enables me to see each of you performing at your best.

I would have preferred to feature your pictures here, unfortunately I am having trouble uploading at this time. As soon as they are I will update this article.

Finally there will be another grading in the new year for all those who are ready.

In the meantime I look forward to seeing you in lessons.

All the very best,

Chris

Richard Stubbs, Ian (the coach) and myself drove to the Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Aylesbury for the British National Martial Arts Association World Championships.

The visit was to assess the suitability of their competition format and the quality of the competitors with a view to entering our own team/teams.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised; they offer sections for all age groups categorised by height and include light continuous, semi contact, kumite, Kata/forms, Judo and MMA. A little something for everyone. The rulings on contact are clear, as are the rules on scoring and referees applied these consistently. Not I hasten to add something I have always witnessed elsewhere.

There was a very good attendance with representatives from across the country.

Everyone I spoke to expressed there happiness about the competitions run by the BNMAA and everyone was friendly and helpful. In particular I spoke to Emma Elmes from Silver Dragons Freestyle World Champions (visit:www.silverdragons.biz for more info). Emma and her team teach XMA or Extreme Martial Arts and will be coming to visit us for a

training session in the new year. Also former World Champion Mark Noyce who is a blast from the past for me and someone else we will be seeing more of.

All in all it was an excellent day and those of you who are interested in trying out for our squad will be able to do so after Christmas.

Regards

Chris