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Pink Karate – Breast Cancer Awareness Class 2013

Students from across all of our dojos have been giving back in a big way last month.

October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and on the last day of the month our advanced class in Wickford was opened up to all students on one condition…… that they traded in their usual grade belt for a pink one, supporting the Pink Karate Campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness.

The Pink Karate Campaign is a unique and unusual way for martial arts clubs to support a very important cause and was started in 2010 by Seamus O’Dowd of Ireland who observed the ribbon symbol resembled a karate belt. For further information go to www.nintai-productions.com, or Pink Karate – Breast Cancer Awareness on Facebook 

21 students from Grays, South Ockendon, Wickford and Chelmsford attended the special pink class; mostly brown and black belts, also 1 purple belt (Max Tucker), 2 blue belts (Helen Papandreoupoulos & Damien McMahon), 1 green belt (Claire Gillman) and 1 white belt (Amani Kambal).

Check out this video of the class below!

Together we raised £330 from belt sales, with a number of students purchasing belts even if they couldn’t attend the event. Most notable of these was Ian Burberry, who matched the amount raised, donating £330 to the Helen Rollason Cancer Charity  in Chelmsford www.helenrollason.org.uk.

This brought the total raised to £660. A huge thanks to everyone who was involved one way or another!

Seitou Ryu Karate students and instructors show their “unique” support for breast cancer awareness

 

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Thank you everyone!

Our project is now complete and our dojos now have 200 brand new training mats. It’s been a long journey and our club members and parents worked particularly hard riding 40 miles through all of our dojos to help raise the £2,280 needed to buy the mats.

We reached our target on 25th July 2013 and had to go through quite a long process for getting the mats ordered and shipped from China. They finally arrived at the port in Felixstowe where we picked them up and delivered them to the Wickford and South Ockendon dojos on 19th September.

Samuel Parker & Katy Bromfield helped deliver the mats to all the dojos.
Here’s the first 100 delivered to the Wickford Dojo

That’s a lot of mats at South Ockendon Dojo! 2.5 metres high! (Katy is 5’4″)

 

It didn’t take the students long to get stuck in with the new mats, as you can see they’ve been put to good use already!

Students from South Ockendon dojo putting the mats to a good first use with a hard and sweaty training session!

Students at the Grays dojo warming up for a session on the mats on Saturday morning

We’re working on a little video which will be released soon but in the meantime, we’d like to thank everyone who was involved in and donated to our fundraising project, and we’d like to make a special mention to the following people who made significant donations.

Aaron Cray, Adrian Long, Andrew Herring, Angie Watson, Charles Lambert, Chris Shepherd, Damien Kingsley-Tomkins, David Ali, Dawn Shepherd, Nathan Barnett, Hayley Wingrove, Iain Abernethy, Ian Burberry, Ilana Brink, James Lockhart, Jane & John Lawrence,  Kaizen Ryu Karate, Kurt Collins, Maggie Nicol, Mark Chessher, Mark Williamson, Michéle Hang Hong, Mick Simmonds, Members of the Royal British Legion South Ockendon, Richard Hang Hong, Roy Waterhouse, Simon Harker, Steve Dennis, Susan Humphreys, Tadas Pilka, Veronica Hicks, Yamin Mustafa.

 

From all the club members of Seitou Ryu Karate and the participants of the Inter-Dojo Bike Ride

Richard Hang Hong, Caroline Hang Hong, Alvin Shaw, Alfie Thompson, Charles Lambert, Charlie Meggs, Connor Frost, Damien McMahon, Danny Fear, Emma Ludkins, Helen Papandreopoulos, Jacquie Frost, Jack Fry, Jaiye Akinosho, Jessica Flatman, Kim Mandy, Kylie Mandy, Marc Jordan, Martin Lawrence, Megan Homer, Mick Simmonds, Mike Homer, Peter Thompson, Ronnie Thompson, Samuel Parker, Sarah Homer,  Tatum Mandy, Tommy Ludkins, Zoe Nolan

Riders of the 2013 Inter-Dojo Bike Ride after their 39 mile long journey through all the Seitou Ryu Karate dojos

 

 

 

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6th SRK Winter Open Charity Tournament

We are proud to present one of the most exciting karate tournaments in Essex, back for it’s 6th year in a row!

The SRK Charity Karate Tournament is a popular event on the local competition circuit, with our last event attracting over 200+ competitors from Essex, Kent, Surrey, London, Basingstoke and Newcastle coming to test their skills against each other in kata and kumite.
With divisions for all levels from beginner to black belt, there is a place for everyone to come and compete!

This year’s charity tournament is in support of Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity (Registered Charity No. 1102529) www.raysofsunshine.org.uk

To get a bit of an idea of what the tournament is like, please take a moment to watch this video

COMPETITORS AND COACHES CAN DOWNLOAD THE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION PACK HERE

http://seitouryukarate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SRK-Winter-Charity-Tournament-2013.pdf

Entries are done via an electronic form via your club instructors so please see them when you are placing your entries.

The event will run according to WKF (2013) rules with some slight modifications, although please refer to the information pack for full details including compulsory equipment for kumite.

Competitors check in: 9.00am
First events: 9.30am sharp!

Entry Fees
• £12 individual events • £21 per team (£7 pp)

All event entries and fees must be received by Sunday 10th November 2013

Spectators fee (on the door)
•£2 Adults (16yrs+)
• £1 Children under 16yrs
• Under 5’s go free

A percentage of all fees received will be donated to Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity

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Please bear in mind that although we are using WKF rules for this competition, our club is not affiliated to the EKF or WKF. This competition is open to everyone, regardless of their affiliation, so both non-EKF/WKF and EKF/WKF clubs are welcome to attend.

 

 

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