Kodokai Photo Gallery & Events

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 2009 September - International Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour) 
            
The International Summer Gashuku was held in Hemsby, Norfolk with students from UK clubs and the Czech Republic.  This years head instructors were sensei's Kevin Leigh, Colin Needham, Ivor Garner, Gary Welch and Steve Marriot. The training was varied covering many different locations with the usual mix of Karate and team events plus the notorious sea training.

 
 2009 July - SKIF World championships     (Photo tour)

             

Sensei Leigh captained the SKKIF  squad at the 10th SKIF World championships held in Greece, Athens. Achieving one Gold one Silver and one Bronze, we did particularly well especially against such superb competition from over 6o competing countries.

 
 2009 May - Kancho Kanazawa Open course Watford     (Photo tour)
           

Kancho Kanazawa and Nobuaki Kanazawa once again taught at one of the largest UK courses to be held in the UK this year. With students from around the world the course was  another great success which was followed by the SKIF grading where  Kodokai students all successfully passed their Grades.

 
 2009 May - Kancho Kanazawa No Bo Yudansha     (Photo tour)
         
The Kodokai Dojo in Watford was the venue for the first Kanazawa No Bo training course in the UK with Kancho Kanazawa, Nobuaki Kanazawa and from SKIF Ireland special guest instructor Seamus O'Dowd with three of his students . Kancho's Bo katas were taught with an interesting insight into the application of the Kanazawa No Bo Dai kata and its relationship to Shotokan techniques.

 
 2009 May - Czech Republic tour     (Photo tour)
         
Sensei's Kevin Leigh (Kodokai), Anne Hastings (Mirai) and Ivor Garner (East Coast karate) were this year guests of honour at the annual course held by Karate Husovice of Brno, Czech Republic. The course was attended by students from all over Czech and with six students from Kodokai and Norwich coming too. The course was again a fantastic success with hospitality shown by Karate Husovice which as always is always appreciated, this year we were shown around local attractions and spent a night in Prague.

 
 2009 March - Winter Gashuku     (Photo tour)
           
 The winter Gashuku is now a well established event and proving one of the highlights of the Karate calendar with over 65 students travelling from around the UK to enjoy excellent training and a fun weekend . This year we were privileged to have  Sensei's;  Anne Hastings 6th dan, Kevin Leigh 5th dan, Colin Needham 5th dan, Ivor Garner 5th dan, Lucie Marsh 4th dan.

 
 2008 Sept - International Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)
         
The biggest International Summer Gashuku to date with over 75 students was held in Hemsby, Norfolk with students from all over the UK and the Czech Republic. This year we were again honoured to have sensei's Anne Hastings 6th dan, Colin Needham 5th dan, Ivor Garner 5th dan and Kevin Leigh 5th dan. The training was varied covering 5 different locations with the usual mix of Karate and team events plus the notorious sea training and 'King of the Hill'.

 
 2008 May - Kancho Kanazawa SKKIF Grading, Watford     (Photo)
This major grading event took place at the Kodokai St Thomas's dojo, and was attended by students from around the country. Congratulations to Cary Leigh, Paul Gray for gaining their 1st Dans also Shamek and Michael Godding for passing their 2nd dan grading.

 
 2008 May - Czech Republic tour     (Photo tour)
       
Sensei Kevin Leigh and sensei Anne Hastings were this year guests of honour at the annual course at the Karate Husovice dojo in Brno, Czech Republic. The course was attended by students from all over the Czech Republic and with another three senior UK instructors in attendance, Ivor Garner and Lucie Marsh, the course was again a fantastic success. The hospitality shown by Karate Husovice is always appreciated and this year we were shown around local attractions including Vienna.

 
  2008 March - Winter Gashuku     (Photo tour)
         
The winter Gashuku is now proving one of the highlights of the Karate calendar with over 55 students travelling from around the UK to enjoy excellent training and a fun weekend . This year we were privileged to have training undertaken by Sensei's;  Anne Hastings, Kevin Leigh,  Colin Needham, Ivor Garner and Lucie Marsh.

 
 2007 November - Kancho Kanazawa Open course & SKKIF grading, Windsor 
Kodokai students trained this weekend with  Kancho Kanazawa, sensei Akhita, Daizo and Fumitoshi Kanazawa at Windsor. With students from around the world the course was  another great success which was followed by the SKKIF grading where  Kodokai students all successfully passed their Gradings. James Needham, Kristan Clark, Simone Lurze, Alex Stewart-White all passing 1st dan and Renauldo Gordon getting 2nd dan.

 
 2007 November -  Sensei Daizo Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo     (Photo tour)
         
Kancho Kanazawa's son Daizo, visits Kodokai on his first ever visit to the UK. Sensei was also treated to a trip to Windsor and was shown around the historic Windsor castle.

 
 2007 Sept - International Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)
             
The International Summer Gashuku was held in Hemsby, Norfolk with students from the UK and the Czech Republic. This year we were joined by sensei Anne Hastings 6th dan and the students were treated to well co-ordinated sessions with all senior Instructors. The training was varied covering 5 different locations with the usual mix of Karate and team events plus the notorious sea training and 'King of the Hill'.

 
 2007 May -Czech Republic     (Photo tour)
         
Sensei Leigh took a group of senior Kodokai black belts to train and run a course at the Karate Husovice dojo in Brno, Czech Republic for the second year running. The course was again well attended with over 70 students, many of whom had travelled from all over Czech. On the Sunday after the Kodokai entourage were shown round Bratislava and looked after by Karate Husovice in their usuall enthusiastic way.

 
 2007 April - Kancho Kanazawa Open course, Lillishall     (Photo)
Kodokai students trained this weekend with with Kancho Kanazawa, sensei Akhita and Nobuaki Kanazawa. With students from around the world the course was hard work but it was another highly successful course which was followed by the SKKIF grading where 11 Kodokai students all successfully passed their Gradings.

 
  2007 March - Winter Gashuku     (Photo tour)
             
The Winter Gashuku took place at Hermanus Holiday Centre in Winterton on Sea Norfolk. This year was well attended with over 45 students and again a tremendous success, especially Saturday night and the infamous fancy dress disco.

 
 2006 Sept - International Summer Gashuku      (Photo tour) 
             
The International Summer Gashuku was held in Hemsby, Norfolk with students from UK clubs and the Czech Republic.  This years head instructors were sensei's Kevin Leigh, Colin Needham and Steve Marriot. The training was varied covering many different locations with the usual mix of Karate and team events plus the notorious sea training.

 
 2006 Nov - SKIF World Championship, Tokyo Japan     (Photo)
Four Kodokai students attended for the SKIF World championships in Toky0 Japan as members of the UK SKKIF Karate squad. Phil Suddick 3rd dan, Ban Pritchard 2nd dan, Shamek 1st dan and Remus Nistorel 1st dan. With over seventy countries competing from around the world the standard was extremely high with all four of Kodokai competitors doing very well in their individual and team events.   

 
 2006 May - Kancho Kanazawa & Nobuaki Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo     (Photo tour)
             
We were privileged to have Kancho Kanazawa teach at Watford's Kodokai dojo accompanied by his son Nobuaki Kanazawa 5th dan.

 
 2006 April - Czech Republic tour     (Photo tour)
             
Sensei Kevin Leigh and sensei Bill Brown took 10 senior Kodokai black belts to train and run a course at the Karate Husovice dojo in Brno, Czech's second City. The course was a fantastic success with students travelling from all over the Czech Republic and it is now planned to make this a regular event due to it's popularity in Brno.

 
 2006 March - Kancho Kanazawa Open course, Watford     (Photo tour)
At the age of 74 Kancho taught over 400 Karate students who attended Watford leisure Centre for the Saturday course. Accompanied by Sensei's Murakami 6th Dan and Sensei Akita 5th dan, the UK again witnessed one of the the best Karate courses to date with students attending from all over the world.

 
 2006 March - Winter Open Gashuku     (Photo tour)
             

 
The Winter Open Gashuku took place at Hermanus Holiday Centre in Winterton on Sea, Norfolk. This year was a great success especially Saturday Training at Great Yarmouth High school and the infamous fancy dress disco. The weekend was an excellent break which livens up  a bleak time of the year.

 
 2005 Nov - International SKIF Open course Lillishall      (Photo)
15 Kodokai students attended with Kancho Kanazawa, sensei Murakami and Nobuaki Kanazawa. With many visitors from around the world the course was hard work but it was great weekend culminating with William Acquaah, Michael Godding and Chris Tyson passing their 1st dan grading and sensei Leigh achieving his 5th dan.

 
 2005 Oct - Anne Hastings course     (Photo)
We were privileged to have sensei Anne Hastings 6th dan visit the Kodokai dojo for the first time.  The X world Kata and Kumite champion, sensei Hastings captivated the dojo for the full 2 hours and we look forward to her visiting us again next year.   

 
 2005  September - Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)
             
This years Summer Gashuku in Norfolk was another great success with extra activities to keep everyone occupied from beach volley ball to sand castle building contest!!! Attended this year by Kodokai and Manchester 'Swinton' club members, the sea training this year was a bit limited as the tides were too strong but we still managed to get a good soaking.

 
 2005 May - SKKIF National Championships,Watford     (Photos and results)
Sensei Kanazawa presided over this years event which took place at Watford leisure centre on Sunday 8th May. The events took just over 8 hours to complete with a  interlude of traditional Chinese dancing by a local Chinese dance school.   

 
 2005 May - Kancho Kanazawa Open course, Watford     (Photo tour)
At the age of 74 Sensei still managed to attract over 450 Karate students from all over the UK and many from Europe and the US who attended Watford leisure Centre for the Saturday course. Accompanied by Sensei's Ryusho Suzuki 5th Dan and Sensei Akita 5th dan, this was the biggest course held in Europe so far.

 
 2005 May - Kancho Kanazawa SKKIF Grading
This major grading event took place at the Kodokai St Thomas's dojo, and was attended by students from around the country. Congratulations to Danny Leigh and Remus Nistorel for gaining their 1st Dans.

 
 2005 March - Winter Open Gashuku     (Photo tour)
           
The Winter Gashuku took place in Winterton on Sea Norfolk. It was well attended and a great success especially Saturday night and the now infamous fancy dress disco. The weekend was an excellent break which livens up  a bleak time of the year. The training was undertaken by Sensei's  K Leigh,  C Needham, G Riley, Lisa &  Michelle Wright.

 
 2004 December - Grading with Kancho Kanazawa       (Photo)
This major grading event took place at Windsor, and was attended by students from around the country and an especially large number from Kodokai. Congratulations to Mathew Clark  for gaining his 1st dan and Bryn Green, Julie Crawford, Fleming Jetmar and Adrian Holt for gaining their 2nd Dans.

 
 2004 October - Kancho Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo    (Photo tour)
           
Great to see Sensei Kanazawa at the Kodokai dojo again twice in one year!!. Attended by over 50 students, Sensei was thoroughly entertained by and looked after again by the Kodokai students.

 
 2004 September - Summer Gashuku      (Photo tour)
             

 
 2004 April - Kancho Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo    (Photo tour)
             
Kodokai once again welcomed Kancho Kanazawa at the Kodokai dojo . Sensei still outshines most people half his age with technique and power. Kancho  and his son Nobuaki also carried out a senior SKKIF grading at the Kodokai dojo the following week.

 
 2004 February - Winter Gashuku     (Photo tour)
           

 
 2003 November - Kancho Kanazawa Open Course, Watford      (Photo Tour)
         
At the age of 72 Sensei still managed to attract over 400 Karate students who attended Watford leisure Centre for the Saturday course. Accompanied by Sensei's Murakami 6th Dan and Sensei Akita 5th dan, the UK witnessed one of the the biggest Karate courses to date.

 
 2003 September - Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)
             
With Sensei's K Leigh 4th dan and C Needham 4th dan the weekend was a great success and the weather and attendance  superb. With additional tuition from Sensei's Shaun McCartan, Graham Riley and Bruce Rice. The pink belt was awarded this year to Guy Quint & Ben Pritchard received the William Acquaah Award.

 
 2003 April - SKKIF National Championships     (Chinese dance school)
The championships were held at Watford leisure centre with the events taking just over 8 hours to complete, there was a welcome interlude of traditional Chinese dancing by a local

 
 2003 April - Kancho Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo   (Photo tour) 
             
Kancho Kanazawa made another welcome visit to the Kodokai Watford dojo. The course was well attended with over 60 students benefiting from the great masters teachings. 

 
 2003 February - Winter Gashuku    (Photo tour)
           
The Gashuku was again a great success with everyone enjoying the mix of training and social activities, especially the now infamous Viking night where every one lets their Viking other half to the fore. Training was undertaken by Sensei's: K Leigh, P Sheppard, C Needham, G Riley & S McCartan.

 
 2002 Nov - Kancho Kanazawa, Kodokai dojo      (Photo tour) 
           
We were honoured to have Kancho Kanazawa teaching at our dojo in Watford. Kancho was on fine form and was as inspiring as usual, we focused on basics to accommodate the lower grades and allow the higher grades to try to perfect their stances.

 
 2002  February - Winter Gashuku    (photo tour)
 
 2002 September - Summer Gashuku    (Photo tour)
             
Despite the bad weather and the high winds this years Summer Gashuku was again a great success, we still managed to train in the sea and the beach which is always the highlight of the Summer Gashuku.

 
 2001 September Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)
           

 
 2000 September - Summer Gashuku     (Photo tour)  
         

 
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