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Once again the Luton Lunatics enjoyed their Christmas Dinner at The Brammingham. Everyone had a great time. There was lots of food, drink and talk of Ogwen Bank courses gone by. It was good see Phil “The Full” English, Rob Simpson and other friends and partners come out as well.  

Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Alex Buxton (3rd Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a larger grading with 15 hopefuls. The overall standard and energy were very high from start to end and the judges were very impressed. Performances of note were George Palmer who really shone and showed a lot of power

As usual, the Junior Luton Lunatics celebrated X-Mas at Pizza Hut. There was plenty of  pizza and ice cream. Attendance may have been a  little low as it was directly after a very hard grading and the kids may have been a little tired!

As the end of the year approached, we once again like to recognize the students who have put the most into their karate this year and who have got the most out of it. This year’s winners are:   Junior – Nitin Verma   Nitin has been training with for quite a while and the have seen

On Sunday 6th December Luton Higashi once again had the pleasure of hosting Sifu Rob Simpson’s annual visit to our Dojo.   Whilst attendance was not at the height that it had been on previous years, it was never the less well received by all grades that participated.   The higher grades we taught the

The WKU Open Karate Championships were held in Western Super-Mare. Since registration was at 9.30, it meant that this was an early start for the squad that went down. When we eventually arrived, despite the early start, I wasn’t really tired. Once the fighting categories started around midday, that’s when I started buzzing with excitement

On Sunday 15th November, Luton welcomed Chief Instructor and 9th Dan, Peter Spanton to take our training session. Dan grades and Brown belts had the opportunity to train for an hour, with Sensei Spanton, before the rest of the Luton Karate Kai arrived. It was an action packed hour, starting with a quick run through

Congratulations to our very own Omari Asein for winning another Bronze medal at the British International Open Championships on Saturday 5th September 2015 in Glasgow. This adds to his Bronze medals won in May at the United Styles Association Open Competition on 15th May and The British Four Nations Karate Championships that took place on

Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a lower grade grading and all the gradees did well and were duly promoted to their new grades. Pawel Danielewicz performed notably and was awarded a 1st class pass.   Congratulations on your promotions!  Name Grade Belt Class Pass Andrea Radulescu 7th Kyu

We have a lot of brilliant guest trainers visit us at the club, we learn and laugh a lot and our most recent visit was from Glen who gave us a small glimpse into Silat.   We started with blocking attacks to the head then throwing a counter attack for our partner to block. At