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Well done to everyone who attended the SEKF Fun Run in the New Forest. It was great to see the the mums and dads joining in with the students and having a great time too. Thanks to Sensei Danny and our Mentors for helping to make the day such a...
Well done to the SEKF athletes who attended the Madrid elite training camp. Our athletes enjoyed a week of top class Kata and Kumite training under World champions and Spanish National coaches Fran Salazar (Kata) and Ivan Leal (Kumite). In addition...
What a fantastic and very muddy Fun Run it was this year.... After waiting since 2019 due to Covid the Fun Run did not disappoint. The SEKF students and parents enjoyed everything the New Forest has to offer with added excitment of some serious...
Our lucky SEKF squad were treated to a fun filled Summer Karate Camp in Marbella, Spain over the holiday period. They enjoyed a week of Kata and Bunkai training from our guest instructor, European Team Kata champion, Sensei Fran Salazar.... Sensei...
Thanks to all the SEKF students and parents who supported this years Fun Run which raised just over £900 for our squad fund....As usual the run was a great success with plenty of laughs along the way.....Well done everyone!
The SEKF squad travelled to Thirsk to attend a fantastic weekend of Kumite and Kata ran by sensei James Scanlon and sensei Collin Rudkin. The SEKF and JS students really enjoyed the varied training and making new friends. Thanks Team JS for making...
What an amazing summer camp the SEKF Elite squad had this year in Marbella... After two previous great summer camps in Madrid, we changed to the Marbella area in Southern Spain which proved to be the best yet! The camps training was a mixture of...
Happy 25th Birthday to the SEKF! Twenty-five years ago, I opened my first karate club with Danny Rudkin as my junior mentor. We started with nine students and now teach over two hundred and fifty a week with the added help of our two long standing...
Congratulations Team SEKF.....Two gold medals at the English Championships for our hard working athletes James Arnold and Elliott Lowman. Due to the age limits of the competition and school exams for our older athletes, we were unable to take our...
After months of hard preperation, I would like to congratulate young Carla for her fantastic performance at the USA Open Championships in Las Vegas. No medal this time for Carla. However, she performed three great katas and gained valuble experience...
Recently, the SEKF squad travelled up to Cumbria to compete at the Chojinkai Open Championships. After a hard days competing the squad managed a great medal haul consisting of two silver and six bronze medals. Carla Rudkin-Guillen and Tom Klemz both...
During the February half term, three of our elite squad, Carla Rudkin-Guillen, James Arnold and Louis Naraine travelled to Germany to compete in the Berlin International Open Championships. After our success in Lisbon the belief of success was high....
Our Elite squad, which consisted of English and British title holders, travelled to the Lisbon International Open recently after months of pre-training. Unfortunately, Carla Rudkin-Guillen and Louis Naraine were unable to compete due to injury....
Some of our lucky SEKF squad members enjoyed a great week of elite karate training at Fran Salazar's Dojo in Madrid. Fran was fantastic as usual, teaching some great kata, drills and Physical training. To compliment Fran's World class kata training,...
A few lucky SEKF squad members travelled to Madrid and were treated to five days of elite training with the World Team Kata Champion 'Fran Salazar' The students arrived in Madrid on Sunday 31st July, excited and ready for training. However, it was...
Well done to everyone who attended the recent Easter Camp. This year, I took the Elite and A' Squad members through their paces with some hard kata and kumite drills, finishing off with some great games of basket ball. Danny gave the rest of the...
This year's fun run in the New Forest was a great success. The weather held up and offered us fantastic sunshine for the 2nd year running. The forest had received plenty of rain prior to the run which helped make it really exciting. I would like to...
At the end of April the SEKF squad took some time off training for a well deserved day out to Chessington World of Adventures. We all had a great day as the rides were fantastic. I was pleased to see all the parents joining in on the rides and...
This year our annual fun run was again a great success and well supported even though it was organised for early February, luckily we had glorious sunshine and no wind which made for perfect running conditions. I would like to thank all the...
Danny and I would like to thank everyone for helping make the Christmas disco such a success again this year, especially the parents who kindly contributed food for the buffet or prizes for the raffle, A big thank you to Sasha for baking so many...
On Sunday 31st August 2014 the squad members and a few parents gathered together at La Strada in Bournemouth to celebrate Nick and Jess getting into university. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with excellent food and a great atmosphere, at the...
The Summer Camp this year was as popular as ever with over 60 students attending. Everyone enjoyed the wide variety of games such as dodge ball, softball and everyone's favourite bulldog. However, the real highlight was learning very advanced karate...
On Sunday 25th May 2014, we held our first ever combined fun run and summer fete to help raise funds for our SEKF squad. We were very lucky with the weather as the sun was shinning after a few days of rain, however the New Forest was another story....
The SEKF Squad members and parents attended a Pizza night out at the Chianti restaurant in Ferndown for a little get together. As usual Alberto looked after everyone very well and the food was lovely, which complimented a great evening.
The squad members enjoyed a well deserverd weekend away at Alton Towers. We spent the first day at the theme park which was great fun, especially getting soaked on the galleons. After a nice evening together at the hotel we spent the next day at the...
On Saturday 28th October, the Squad member parents met up for a Pizza at the Chianti Italian Restaurant in Ferndown. The Chianti Restaurant is our latest sponsor and the venue for our Christmas party this year, so what better excuse for a night out...
The Fun run this year was great fun and our wettest to date which made running conditions very interesting to say the least. Our own Senior Instructor Danny Rudkin took a plunge in to one of the Forest's streams, followed by another one shortly...
On Saturday 21st May, I took the A’ Squad members and fun Run Sponsor winners to Thorpe Park for the day, Unfortunately, Danny could not join us as he was ill in bed. The weather was great with the sun shining all day and the rides were...
Recently, the Elite and A’ Squad members stayed the weekend in Splash landings hotel at Alton Towers theme park, along with the Xmas raffle winners the Hughes family and the fun run sponsor winners, Joe Grimwood & Jack Fisher. To say we...
We had a great response from the fun run, with 157 runners taking part, and raising just over £1200 for the 100 club fund…Well done everyone! I would like to congratulate Jack Fisher, Joe Grimwood and David Johnson who raised...