On Sunday 7th May 2023 ESKA members representing the TSKUK attended the biannual Championship the GB OPEN held by the ESKF. The championships were held at the University of Birmingham.
Here is a breakdown of the results:
Seniors Individual Kata – 18 Years+ – Novice to 4th Kyu – Male
Bronze – Scott Prentice (ESKA)
Veterans Individual Kata – 36 Years+ – Novice to 4th Kyu – Female
Gold -Wenqi Zhang (ESKA)
Children’s Pairs – 12 Years & Under – 3rd Kyu and Above – Mixed
Bronze – Lily Nudd (ESKA) / Lena Gryczaniuk (ESKA)
Childrens Individual Shobu Nihon Kumite – 10 – 12 Years – 3rd Kyu and Above – Female 145cm+
Gold – Lena Gryczaniuk (ESKA)
Bronze – Sidney Scott (ESKA) / Daisy Toone (ESKA)
Seniors Individual Shobu Sanbon Kumite – 18 Years+ – 3rd Kyu and Above – Male 75kg+
Silver – Max Threadwell (ESKA)
Veterans A (36 – 49 Years) – Individual Shobu Sanbon Kumite – Open Grade – Male
Silver – Francis Karemo (ESKA)
Seniors Team Rotational Kumite – 18 Years+ – Open Grade – Male
Bronze – Max Threadwell (ESKA) / Francis Karemo (ESKA) / Mark Jarred (ESKA)
The ESKA Squad took 9 Medals: 2 Gold / 2 Silver / 5 Bronze.
On Sunday 23rd April 2023, ESKA members attended the TSKUK Members Course and Black Belt Grading in Canvey Island, Essex. The grading took place in front of a panel including Sensei Alan Parrish 7th Dan, Sensei Jason Hitchings 6th, Sensei Nathan Bond 5th Dan, Sensei Charlie Tarr 4th Dan, Sensei Mary Hitchings 4th Dan, Sensei Dave Lynskey 4th Dan & Sensei Mason Gill 3rd Dan.
A very successful grading resulted in 17 students achieving their Shodan (1st Dan Black Belt), 1 student achieving their Nidan (2nd Dan Black Belt).
Congratulations to the following new 1st Dans:
Brandon Camderman
Charlotte Joseph
Daniel Winterbone
Dave Joseph
Hannah Wimhurst
Helen Walker
Hollie Walker
James Allison
Juliet Allison
Keyaan Ahmed
Kryzsztof Dragan
Lois Hill
Namira Ahmed
Paul Hollander
Samia Lalmas-Jenkins
Scott Jenkins
Zoe Nesbitt-Clarke
TSKUK National Championships – Sunday 21st May 2023
We are pleased to announce the TSKUK National Championships will be held on Sunday 21st May 2023 at UEA Sportspark, University Drive, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ.
This competition is open to ALL ESKA Members Red Belt & Above.
Entrants will receive one official TSKUK grading stamp for entering the competition.
We will be holding our Individual & Pairs Kata Competition
on Sunday 16th April 2023
at The Dojo Norwich, 6 Burton Road, NR6 6AX
Competition Entry Fee:
1 Event £15
Pairs Event £5/person
The events will be split by age and grade.
(Final category list to be announced once all entries have been received)
There will be awards presented for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Competition is open to:
Juniors (6 – 13yrs)
Cadets (14 – 17yrs)
Adults (18+)
Entries close 11.30 pm 12/4/2023
Competition Start Times
Junior Red Belt 9th Kyu to Purple & White Belt 4th Kyu – 1.30pm
Junior Brown Belt 3rd Kyu & Above, Cadets & Adults (All Grades) – 3.00pm
Please arrive 15 minutes before the competition start time.
Sensei Iain Abernethy has been involved in martial arts since childhood. Iain holds the rank of 7th Dan with the British Combat Association (one of the world’s leading groups for close-quarter combat, self-protection and practical martial arts), the British Combat Karate Association, and the English Karate Federation.
One of the leading exponents of applied Karate, Iain has written several critically acclaimed books on the practical application of traditional martial arts. He is well known for his work on the pragmatic use of the techniques and concepts recorded in the traditional Kata. Iain’s seminars, books, DVDs and articles have proved very popular with those groups and individuals who wish to practise their arts as the pragmatic systems they were initially intended to be.
Scott Sensei is one of the youngest people ever to win the World Championships and has over 30 years experience practicing and teaching karate.
Scott has been practicing martial arts since the age of 5, however, he started his karate career properly in 1986 under the instruction of Howard Milson, a senior member of Kodokai and one of the very few 5th Dans in the UK at the time. Scott trained hard with Howard and Kato Sensei and gained Shodan in 1992. After travelling to Japan with Kato Sensei in 1993, Scott started university in Staffordshire and trained on a daily basis with him.
During this time he assisted Kato Sensei teaching around the UK and Europe. Scott also competed regularly; winning, both in kata and kumite, the National Championships five times, European Championships three times, and the 1996 JKA World Championships in Moscow. Building on this success, Scott travelled once more to Japan in 1997 and started to train full time at the JKA (Asai faction) Hombu dojo.
Under constant pressure from the instruction of Asai, Abe, Yahara, Kagawa, Isaka, Yamaguchi etc, Scott went from strength to strength and in 1998 was asked to enter the instructor’s course. Unfortunately, an injured knee prevented this, so after considerable rehabilitation, Scott, along with Yasuhisa Inada, entered the course in 2000 and became the first instructor’s course class of the newly formed Japan Karate Shotorenmei. Two intensive years later, Scott graduated from the course and became the fifth non-Japanese person ever to do so (JKA/JKS).
Feeling it was time to move on and encouraged by the Hombu dojo to develop JKS karate, Scott moved to Ireland. From 2002 until 2013 Scott was the Technical Director of the JKS GB & Ireland and the Chief Instructor of JKS Ireland’s Hombu Dojo. In that time the group grew from 4 clubs to 120 clubs, making it the biggest single style group in the British Isles. His own club also grew from the initial 8 members that showed up first night, to over 500 members and four full time instructors.
Scott is the best selling author of Karate Stupid and Karate Clever which tell much of Scott’s karate journey so far.
Scott trains daily at the dojo with the other Sensei and takes the Adult classes on Monday and Thursday nights. He spends most of his weekends travelling around Great Britain and Europe teaching at seminars. However he likes to surprise the kids every now and then so he might drop in on any class any time.
On Saturday 11th February, ESKA members competed at the WUKF British Open Karate Championships held in Crawley, England.
Here is a breakdown of the results:
Lena Gryczaniuk (11)
Bronze – Female – 13 Years – Team Rotational Shobu Sanbon
Lily Nudd (11)
Bronze – Female – 11-12 Years Shobu Nihon
Bronze – Female – 13 Years – Team Rotational Shobu Sanbon
Max Threadwell (19)
Bronze – Male – 18-20 Years Shobu Ippon
Bronze – Male – 18-20 Years Shobu Sanbon
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ESKA
The Dojo Norwich
3 Burton Road
Norwich, Norfolk
NR6 6AX
A professional karate club based in East Anglia, headed by Chief
Instructor Jason Hitchings, 6th Dan. We are dedicated to teaching traditional Shotokan Karate to the
very highest standard.
