Congratulations to Andy Gunton (centre) who was awarded 7th Dan at the WKU Dan Grading – Bristol Karate Club Dojo, December 2012. Andy is pictured here with Alan Flook, 7th Dan, Bristol Karate Club and Les Birkin, 7th Dan, Colchester Traditional Karate Club.
Western Karate Union hosted its annual Winter Open Invitational on Sunday 25th November at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre, Weston-super-Mare. A big thank you to all the officials for their outstanding efforts. With over 500 entries we had only one injury where the medics advised the contestant to go to hospital and no major issues on […]
Western Karate Union hosted its annual Winter Open Invitational Competition Sunday 25th November at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre, Weston-super-Mare. This year saw over 500 entries. Competitors, officials, organisers and supporters arrived from far and wide, many braving wet and windy weather and floods to travel to the event. A full report and results coming soon… […]
CHECK HERE for details of any WKU Referee and Table Officials Courses coming up. WKU Referee courses cover Kumite & Kata Rules and the Table Officials courses cover the Referee’s hand signals, operation of the score board and how the repercharge works. Click here to download a copy of the WKF Kumite & Kata rule […]
Sunday 06 January 2013 WKU Squad selection at Bristol Dojo for the English Kyu Grade Championship in Sheffield Sunday 20 January 2013). There will be no training – only selection for the event.
WKU referees – Ivor Thomas, Brian Wragg, Nigel Lagson and Gary Doughty attended the British Open Karate Championships in Glasgow 6 and 7 October 2012. After two very exhausting days on the Tatamis (finish time was 10.00pm on the Saturday), Nigel was promoted to British Kumite Referee and Brian was reinstated as British Kumite Referee.
Weekend 6th & 7th October 2012 saw the Western Karate Union Squad travel to Glasgow, Scotland to compete at the British Open Karate Championships. With over 20 countries participating the WKU Squad returned with impressive results: WKU Male Team B – silver WKU Male Team A – bronze Sarah Clark – silver Ali Nyoni – […]
A Kata Course was held by Les Birkin, 7th Dan and other instructors on Saturday 6th October, 2pm to 4pm at Highwoods Leisure Center.Thank you and well done to everyone who took part, and a big thank you to Tad Jenkins who was brought by his father Steve all the way from Broadwell Karate Club […]
