JKA Scotland
National Gasshuku 2016
Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd October
Shimizu Sensei 5th Dan JKA Imamura Sensei 7th Dan JKA Ohta Sensei 7th Dan JKA
Over the weekend of Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd October students from all over Scotland came together for the JKA Scotland Gasshuku 2016.
The October national course offered quality instruction from world class JKA instructors. The instructors for the 2016 course were the following:
Imamura Sensei 7th Dan – JKA HQ Instructor
Ohta Sensei 7th Dan – JKA England
Shimizu Sensei 5th Dan – JKA HQ Instructor
JKA Scotland would like to thank all three instructors for their efforts over the three days and making it a very enjoyable and successful weekend.
JKA Dan Grading:
Following the training on Sunday a JKA Dan grading was held.
The following students from JKA Scotland passed Dan Grade and will receive their JKA certificate from JKA Honbu dojo Tokyo Japan.
Pass 1st Dan JKA (Shodan):
Nancy Hankin
Holly Williams
Katie Swift
Adam Swift
Rachael Millar
Kian McLaughlin
Pass 2nd Dan JKA (Nidan):
Simon Carmichael
Morag Wallace
Colin Stewart
Pass 4th Dan JKA (Yondan):
Helen Paterson
Congratulations to all the above students.
JKA Junior European Championships
Nis , Serbia
Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd May 2016
From Thursday 19th May to Monday 23rd May 2016 the JKA Scotland Junior squad traveled to Nis, Serbia, to participate in this year’s JKA junior European Championships.
The travelling party arrived in Nis on the Thursday in preparation for the weekend’s events. The Squad then travelled on the Friday morning to the Cair Sports Centre in Nis for a final JKA Scotland squad training session before the championships.
As usual Saturday morning saw an early start for
the Championships with the JKA Scotland Squad arriving at the Cair
Sports Hall Arena at 8-00 am.
With the tournament now in its 12th
year it has grown into a major event in the JKA Europe calendar with
countries from all across Europe travelling to take part in the 2 day
event which was held on 6 areas in the stadium.
The tournament started on schedule at 9-00am on day 1 with the elimination rounds for all individual events. The final events were then followed by the medal award ceremonies which saw the following for JKA Scotland:
Aria Pascual – Gold Medal Girls Individual Kata 14 years.
Sunday morning saw day 2 of the championships with the Team events and the veteran’s events taking place.
The JKA Scotland team’s performed well taking the following placing:
Caitlin Gray, Lucy Ferguson, Aria Pascual – 4th Place Team Kata – 14-15 years.
The level of competition was very high demonstrating the overall standard of JKA Europe. The competition was well organised by JKA Serbia and ran very smoothly and on schedule throughout the day.
JKA Scotland Squad competitors:
Jodie Ferguson
Calvin Bruce
Caitlin Gray
Aria Pascual
Daniel Simpson
Lucy Ferguson
Lucy Hull
Thomas MacFadyen
Lewis Simpson
Kyle Bruce
Callum Flynn
Blair Flynn
Cammie Fraser-Mackie
Travelling Officials:
Bert Stewart – Squad Manager/Coach/Official
Richard Flynn – Coach
Arthur Bruce – Coach
Thanks to all competitors, officials, parents and supporters who travelled to Serbia for this event.
Bert Stewart JKA Scotland Team Manager/Coach.
JKA Scotland
Special May Course and JKA Dan Grading
Saturday 14th May 2016
JKA Scotland held its Special May Course and Dan grading with Sensei Ohta 7th Dan JKA on Saturday 14th May 2016 at the Dunfermline High School, Dunfermline.
Once more there was a great turn out from JKA Scotland instructors and black and brown belt students to support and train on this special course.
Following the warm up at the start of the session Sensei Ohta’s instruction started with some basic Kihon training which concentrated on the importance of making set position between techniques as the class went through various combinations. This then moved onto some kumite drills with a partner that worked on body shifting but concentrating on making correct distance for counter attack.
For the next part of the session the class was split into separate Dan grades and brown belt classes in two separate halls. The brown belt class was taken by JKA Scotland Technical Committee instructors which concentrated on Kihon for Shodan grading training and the Dan grades were taken by Sensei Ohta concentrating on higher level Dan grading Kihon training.
The final part of the course concentrated on Kata training with the class being split into four separate groups over two halls with Sensei Ohta and the JKA Scotland Technical Committee instructors all teaching a different Kata to one of the groups. Each person training was then free to choose which Kata they wished to train for the final part of the course.
Everyone then came back together again in the main hall at the end of Kata training where Sensei Ohta gave a final overview of the days training and also spent some time answering any questions on the day’s session.
JKA Dan Grading:
Following the conclusion of training a JKA Dan grading was held. The following students passed Dan grade:
| Pass 1st Dan JKA (Shodan): | |
| Jake Stewart | Dalgety Bay |
| Ellie Stewart | Shibumi |
| Euan McFadzean | Shibumi |
| Robbie Coulter | Armadale |
| Pass 2nd Dan JKA (Nidan): | |
| Bethinn Wright | Dalgety Bay |
| Lucy Hull | Dalgety Bay |
Congratulations to all the above students on passing Dan grading.
Thanks to Sensei Ohta for a fantastic afternoon of instruction and thanks to all JKA Scotland instructors and students who came along to support the course. We now all look forward to the June JKA Scotland All Grades Regional courses with Sensei Ohta.
JKA England Spring International
Course 2016 – Crawley, London
JKA Scotland members pictured with course instructors.
JKA Scotland members travelled to Crawley London to attend the JKA England Spring International Course 2016 held in the K2 Sports Centre Crawley. The 4 day course was held over the weekend of Friday 29th April to the Monday 2nd May.
This year’s line-up of instructors was once again very impressive and was as follows:
Sensei Kawawada 8th Dan – JKA Honbu Instructor
Sensei Ohta 7th Dan – JKA England Chief Instructor>
Sensei Hirayama 6th Dan – JKA Honbu Instructor
Sensei Nemoto 5th Dan – JKA Honbu Instructor
There were a large number of students attending from many different countries across Europe and further afield and many have been regular attendees of the course over the years. This gave a great opportunity for everyone to train together and socialise with friends from the various countries attending. As well as the 4 days training there was a friendly international event on the Saturday and JKA Dan grading on the Sunday.
JKA Scotland would like to thank JKA England for hosting and organising the course and weekends events which was extremely well attended and enjoyed by all. Thanks also to all the course instructors for 4 days of exceptional instruction. We shall look forward to attending the JKA England Autumn International Course in September.
JKA European Championships 2016
Dublin, Ireland
From Thursday 31st March to Sunday 3rd April 2016 the JKA Scotland squad was in Dublin, Ireland to participate in this year’s JKA Senior European Championships. This is a major event in the JKA Europe calendar with countries from all across Europe travelling to take part.
After arriving on the Thursday the JKA Scotland Squad held a training session on the Friday morning at the championships venue itself the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, Dublin which was already set up in preparation for the following days championships.
Saturday was the day of the Championships which started at 9-00am with the elimination rounds in the various individual and team Kumite and Kata events held on 6 areas which were then followed by the finals.
There was a good overall performance from the JKA Scotland squad members taking part with some going through to the later stages showing that the squad is still making progress with some competitors now stepping up from the Junior ranks to the Seniors.
Thanks to all competitors, officials and supporters who travelled to Dublin for this event.
JKA Scotland would also like to give a special thanks to our friends in JKA Ireland who made a fantastic job on hosting the event and weekend and for the hospitality shown to us.
JKA Scotland Squad competitors:
Magnus Garson
James Campbell
James Sinclair
David Grant
Colin Flynn
Marco Aboim
JKA Scotland Coaching Team:
John Deans Head Coach
Kevin McCormick Assistant Coach
Travelling Officials Referees:
Alan Simpson
Gordon Williamson
Paola Burrows
Next up the JKA Scotland Junior Squad will be competing at the JKA Junior European Championships on 21st and 22nd May 2016 in Krusevac Serbia
JKA Scotland
Association National Championships 2016
JKA Scotland’s annual championships were held on Saturday 6th March at Dunfermline High School, Dunfermline.
There was a good turnout of competitors from all over Scotland who were supported throughout the day by friends and family members. The day ran smoothly starting and finishing on schedule and was a great success.
The organisers would like to thank all competitors, officials, assistants, spectators and families for their support and contribution to making the event a success.
Below are the full medal results from the championships:
| Event 1 Children Kata under 10 yrs beg to 4th kyu |
| 1st Robert Wood |
| 2nd Sristhri Panthri |
| 3rd Charlie Dykes |
| 3rd Jack McCormick |
| Event 2 Children Kata under 10yrs 3rd kyu and up |
| 1st Jake Stewart |
| 2nd Finlay Mitchell |
| Event 3 Children Kata 10-12yrs Beg to 4th kyu |
| 1st Blair Flynn |
| 2nd Mark Sinclair |
| 3rd Becca Jones 3rd Raj Negi |
| Event 4 Children Kata 10-12yrs 3rd kyu and up |
| 1st Dylan Buckley |
| 2nd Kyle Bruce |
| 3rd Euan McFadyen |
| 3rd Lewis Simpson |
| Event 5 Junior Kata 13-15yrs beg to 4th kyu> |
| 1st Alasdair Barton |
| 2nd Siddarth Jakhmrla |
| 3rd Daniel Pratt |
| Event 6 Junior Kata 13-15yrs 3rd kyu and up |
| 1st Aria Pascual |
| 2nd Lucy Hull |
| 3rd Jodie Ferguson |
| 3rd Thomas McFadyen |
| Event 7 Female Kata over 16yrs 3rd Kyu and above |
| 1st Paola Burrows |
| 2nd Susan Campbell |
| 3rd Cameron Mackie |
| 3rd Morag Wallace |
| Event 8 Mens Kata over 16yrs 3rd Kyu and above |
| 1st James Campbell |
| 2nd Colin Flynn |
| 3rd Magnus Garson |
| 3rd Marco Aboim |
| Event 9 Junior Team Kata |
| 1st Dalgety Bay A |
| 2nd Shibumi A |
| 3rd Dalgety Bay B |
| 3rd Dalgety Bay C |
| Event 10 Senior Team Kata |
| 1st Shibumi A |
| 2nd Alloa A |
| Event 11 Children Kumite under 10 yrs beg to 4th kyu |
| 1st Charlie Dykes |
| 2nd Matthew Wood |
| 3rd Sristhi Panthri |
| 3rd Arran Terrell |
| Event 12 Children Kumite under 10yrs 3rd kyu and up |
| 1st Jake Stewart |
| 2nd Finlay Mitchell |
| Event 13 Children Kumite 10-12yrs Beg to 4th kyu |
| 1st Blair Flynn |
| 2nd Ben Dykes |
| 3rd Raj Negi |
| 3rd Lori Beth Fullarton |
| Event 14 Children Kumite 10-12yrs 3rd Kyu and above |
| 1st Kyle Bruce |
| 2nd Dylan Buckley |
| 3rd Adam Swift |
| 3rd Holly Williams |
| Event 15 Junior boys Kumite 13-15yrs beg to 4th kyu |
| 1st Alasdair Barton |
| 2nd Siddarth Jakhmrla |
| 3rd Daniel Pratt |
| Event 16 Junior Boys Kumite 13-15yrs 3rd kyu and above |
| 1st Callum Flynn |
| 2nd Simon Carmichael |
| 3rd Angus Brown |
| Event 17 Junior Girls Kumite 13-15yrs all grades |
| 1st Aria Pascual |
| 2nd Lucy Hull |
| 3rd Bethink Wright |
| 3rd Iona Wright |
| Event 20 Cadet Kumite Male |
| 1st Calvin Bruce |
| 2nd Robbie Coulter |
| Event 22 Ladies Kumite over 16yrs 3rd kyu and above |
| 1st Ellen Deeprose |
| 2nd Cameron Mackie |
| 3rd Marion Robertson |
| Event 24 Mens Kumite over 16yrs 3rd kyu and above |
| 1st Colin Flynn |
| 2nd Magnus Garson |
| 3rd James Campbell |
| 3rd David Grant |
| Event 25 Junior Team Kumite |
| 1st Shibumi A |
| 2nd Dalgety Bay A |
| 3rd Dalgety Bay B |
| Event 26 Senior Team Kumite |
| 1st Dalgety Bay Mix |
| 2nd Shibumi A |
| 3rd Armadale A |
| Special Awards |
| Best Junior – Aria Pascual |
| Best Senior – Colin Flynn |
JKA Scotland
January Special Kata Course 2016
Sensei Ohta 7th Dan JKA
JKA Scotland held its first event of 2016 with a special Brown and Black belt Kata course with Sensei Ohta 7th Dan JKA on Saturday 23rd January at Dunfermline High School, Dunfermline.
These Kata courses always prove very popular with JKA Scotland members with this one being no exception shown by the turn out on the day.
The course started with Brown and Black belts training together. The first Kata to be practised was Kata Kanku Dai. Sensei Ohta is known for his structured classes and this one started with Kihon training which was specifically geared towards the Kata Kanku Dai. This then moved onto the practise of the Kata itself broken down into sections including application practise with a partner. There then followed a question and answer session. The Kanku Dai part of the course then concluded with a demonstration of the Kata by Sensei Ohta.
Following a short break the class was then split into separate Brown and Black belt classes with the Brown belts moving to a separate hall.
The Black belt class then continued along the same structure with Sensei Ohta teaching Katas Bassai-Sho and then Meikyo.
Brown belts were taught by JKA Scotland Technical Committee instructors Sensei Simpson and Sensei Stewart who covered Enpi and Bassai-Dai.
Following the completion of Kata training both classes came together again where in closing Sensei Ohta gave a short talk on general Kata training including the importance of training Kata Kanku Dai and advice for older members on how to try and retain the smoothness and fluidity in your Kata as you get older.
Thanks to Sensei Ohta for a fantastic kata course and as usual his enthusiastic teaching style and ability to demonstrate and explain Kata techniques in-depth made for a very enjoyable and educational course. Thanks also to all who attend.