Striving to establish a Sport England

recognised National Governing Body

for the benefit of all English Karateka

 

EVENTS

FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

Subject:: Teaching Karate; Health and Safety (Risk Management), the Law and Insurance

Date:         26 October 2008

Venue:     Strawberry Bank Hotel, Main Rd, Meriden, Nr Coventry  CV7 7NF Tel:  01676 522117

Time:       11.00am – 3.00pm

This seminar is aimed at providing advice and guidance to Associations which will assist their Instructors to teach safely and within the law and help ensure that they are protected by appropriate insurance.

The seminar is being provided free of charge by Karate England and all Karate England Associations or Associations formerly with Karate England ’05 or the EKGB are invited to send up to two representatives.

The advice will be provided by the following professionals who are all giving their time free of charge;

• Brian Fotheringham:  Brian is a member of the Health and Safety Executive who is helping Karate England to produce an updated Risk Assessment document. He is a practicing Karate Sandan and an advisor on Health and Safety to Karate England.

• Rob Manning:   Rob is a barrister in criminal law who has recently published a book entitled ‘Justifiable Force’. He is a practicing Karate Yondan and an advisor on the law to Karate England.

• Clive Baker:   Clive is a Senior Partner with TL Risk Solutions (formerly Towry Law) and has been providing insurance to Karate Associations for over 30 years.

 There will be presentations by Brian and Rob followed by a short break for lunch.

 After lunch there will be a presentation by Clive and then an opportunity to discuss any issues with the advisors.

The seminar will be conducted in Conference-style so delegates are requested to bring a clipboard or other suitable hard surface on which to write. Handout notes will be provided.

In order to help with costs, delegates will be asked to purchase their own refreshments, which will be available from the hotel.

Those wishing to attend or needing further details should contact:

admin@karateengland.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you there.

Karate England Board

NNGBEK (KE) CHAMPIONSHIPS

Anyone that’s been around the competition circuit will know that an English Championships is not an English Championships unless certain squads are there taking part.  The 2008 NNGBEK (KE) English National Championships, although organised at short notice, saw some quality karate from some of England’s top associations, as can be seen from the results table.

The Harvey Hadden Sports Centre provided its usual excellent service and the local air ambulance and paramedics fortunately did not have too much to do during the day.

The officials, led by FEKO Chief Referee Rob Philips, worked tirelessly and were pleased to receive a contribution towards their expenses, though this could not reflect the effort they put in. Well done to all of them!!

Tournament co-organisers Abdu Shaher and Ian Cuthbert are old hands at this but came up with a fantastic new look., with all events being played off in pool systems similar to the Football European Champions League or World Cup.  This meant that a competitor who has travelled up from Bournemouth (as many had) paying for petrol and accommodation, did not run the risk of being knocked out in the first round having had just one fight or bout of kata. The pool system meant that everyone had at least three or four bouts to reach the knockout stage of each category.

The feeling around the hall was definitely that this was terrific value for money. Fighters want fights and kata people want to perform kata , the more the better.

There were notable kata performances from KUGB competitors such as Rebecca and Joseph Rawcliffe and Hisham Saif who took Gold in the Girl’s under 16 category, Men’s Seniors and Boy’s 14-15 respectively.  FEKO showed they had a real trooper in the form of Mandy Read who took Gold in the Ladies' Senior kata, Gold in Ladies team and silver in the ladies over 60k sections; a tremendous haul for one day’s work!

Ian Cuthbert’s SHIKON squad showed their usual strength in depth and topped the medals table winning the Men’s team kumite along with the Men’s heavyweight, middleweight, openweight and team sections, with Danny Hollister being responsible for three Golds on his own.

The Men’s lightweight sections were dominated by Abdu Shaher’s BKO competitors and appropriately Vic Charles’s BSKA seemed to get more success in the heavyweight sections thanks to the usual excellent coaching from Jeff Bottomley.

All in all a good day with the promise of bigger and better to come.

Many thanks go to our all star line up of Karate dignitaries, Bob Poynton, Brian Philcox, Alan Carruthers, Molly Samuel, Ossie Rowe etc etc for their support.

The results will be added to the Karate Sport England ranking lists.
 

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Results