City Shorinji Kempo Dojo is organising a martial arts demonstration at their training venue at City University. All are welcome to come and watch, and maybe even give the class a go. Sensei Robert Villiers is organising the demonstration and it will include examples of Embu (paired practise), Randori (sparring), Chinkon (meditation), and both Goho (Hard) and Juho (soft) waza (techniques). Sensei Rob will be performing an embu with Sensei Martin Dixon of SOAS dojo, and there will also be a demonstration of shakujo (quarterstaff) techniques.

Time & Date : 7:30-8:30pm Monday 30th December
Location : Martial Arts Room, Lower Ground Floor,
City University Main Building,
Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB

There will be people by the entrance to the Drysdale Building to give you directions to the Martial Arts Room. If you think you might be interested in giving it a go, wear loose clothing appropriate for e.g. a gym workout, there will be an opportunity at the end of the demo to try out some techniques!

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Then take a look at this nice video produced by the Imperial College Shorinji Kempo dojo.

Hello everyone, I’d like to welcome all our kenshi back (a little belatedly) for a new year of training at Angel Dojo. We hope you’ve all had a good holiday.

We’ve had a lot of newcomers to our class lately, which is excellent. Please try to make new kenshi feel welcome, and train with as many different people as possible during class. It’s often easier to learn the techniques when a beginner is paired with a more experienced kenshi – the more experienced kenshi can learn just as much from teaching as the beginner can from being taught.

Sensei Rob is currently in Cyprus on a kempo training week, as is Jonathan. The class this Saturday (8th October) will go ahead as normal – I will be teaching the class with the assistance of a brown belt from City Dojo, Naomi Oates, who some of you may already know. Please be patient with us this week, as there are quite a few of you, and only two of us – we will do our best to make sure that the class runs smoothly and is just as fun as usual.

See you all on Saturday!

Alice