University of Kent Karate Club: Belt crawl.

11 Jan 2009

Belt crawl.

This is a bit of a delayed posting, but the belt crawl social went ahead towards the end of the last term and was pretty good fun.

The belt crawl has become a popular part of the karate clubs calendar and a tradition maintained for several generations of our karateka, for anyone unsure of the rules:

Participants must dress in a top the same colour as thier belt. Once gathered we proceed through various different pubs drinking as we go, however shots are taken at each pub in belt colour order. There are various other challenges, we complete sets of pressups or perform kata in the highstreet and people not wearing the correct colour suffer a forfeit.
Suffice to say not that many people make it to the final black shot (jaegermeister).

Here are pictures.

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What we do.

The University of Kent Karate Club is situated in Canterbury and is very well established; we’ve been around longer than any other martial arts club on campus with a long history of success at the national university championships. The teaching is generally fairly relaxed but disciplined, the teachers all very approachable. We also have a varied curriculum and full weekly training schedule.

Karate is a traditional Japanese martial art; literally meaning ‘empty hand’ it was first created as unarmed defence against armed opponents. It uses powerful strikes designed to disable and incapacitate potential antagonists and as such is a practical skill to know. It provides both mental and physical conditioning, keeps you fit and works to teach useful self-defence.

We are a multi-discipline club, although we’re based in dentokan shorin ryu style karate we have a number of senseis trained in various styles. Beginners are welcome at any point in the year however it’s advisable to join closer to the beginning of a term to benefit the most.

We grade twice over the year towards the end of each term to recognise improvement made and to add a bit more variety we also frequently hold lessons dedicated to ju-jitsu style self defence and basic weapons training.

We cater for competitive members, we normally enter the annual ‘BUCS’ university competition, and this year we hope to get involved in a few more. Our social calendar is usually packed full of exciting events and this year is set to be no different.