On Sunday 23rd October the ESA held their last Black and Brown belt course of the year, 26 ESA members attended the course at Batley Leisure Centre. The Instructors for the day where Sensei Steve Thompson 7th Dan and Sensei Alan Armstrong.
In the Black belt class Sensei Thompson made many references to our founder Sensei Steve Cattle and based his session on tai sabaki and some of Sensei Cattle’s kumite techniques, we also studied Bassai Sho.
With Sensei Armstrong we focussed on correct grounding, focus on breathing and linking it all to efficient movement, we also studied the kata Jitte.
For the Brown belt sessions Sensei Armstrong continued his focus on stance, breathing and movement using the Cadet Black belt syllabus to help those grading later also including Bassai Dai, Sensei Thompson worked on different ways of moving with angles using uraken uchi with lots of partner work.
At the end of training two cadet students from Southport Karate Academy Florence and Jamie graded and were successful in passing their Cadet Black belts, Big well done to you both.