The Farnham dojo hosted the Wado Academy New Year's training seminar on Sunday 9th January 2022. Seventy students had 3 hours of world class instruction from Sensei Arthur Meek 8th Dan, teaching on behalf of Shiomitsu Sensei 9th Dan Hanshi. It was good to be back training again in larger numbers, although Covid meant [...]
All of our clubs remain open and are currently busy and continue to thrive. We ask students to continue with regular LFT before coming and follow Government guidelines if positive or in isolation. If parents are inside our venues dropping off or picking up, please wear masks whilst doing so. We also offer training [...]
From December 2021 "Jion" Aldershot Karate Academy has found a new hall, which will be the long term venue moving forward and replace the previous temporary church hall in Badshot Lea. The new address is Ash Manor School, Manor Road, Ash, Surrey. GU12 6QH. Training is on Tuesdays 7.00-8,30pm for adults only & Thursdays [...]
We have now reopened all four clubs in May 2021 for adults and children and look forward to seeing old and new students, as we begin our return to training inside at the dojos. All sessions will strictly observe the current government and EKF guidelines and the safety of our students and staff is [...]
The annual Wado Academy winter course was held in Guildford in late February 2020, with the 3rd Wado-Ryu Grandmaster, Hironori Otsuka III over from Japan and instructing for the week. It was a superb weeks training and focussed on connected bodies and compression tnp release energy and create power. Over 300 people came to train [...]
The clubs have achieved the prestigious safeguarding code in Martial Arts award this week, after a huge amount of work from a couple of club members. Our gratitude goes to them and the award shows we take the safeguarding of ALL students seriously and have correct procedures in place. We are the only clubs in [...]
Over 60 students attended the seminar hosted by our Farnham dojo. Thanks to Sensei Arthur Meek 8th Dan & Sensei Peter Hill 7th Dan for the first class instruction. The theme was "get sweat", a favourite saying of Shiomitsu Sensei and sweat everyone certainly did! Everyone was able to socialise afterwards at a local pub [...]
M. Shiomitsu 9th Dan Hanshi, Chief Instructor of the Wado-Ryu Karate-Do Academy is pleased to announce the promotion of his Assistant Chief Instructor Arthur Meek to 8th Dan Renshi. This is after examination and scrutiny on 17th October 2019 at the Wado-Ryu Karate-Do Renmei headquarters in Japan in front of Grandmaster H. Otsuka III and [...]
Our Farnham club hosted the 2019 Wado Academy instructors course, attended by over 60 association senior grades. It was taught by Sensei Arthur Meek 8th Dan, on behalf of Shiomitsu Sensei 9th Dan, who turned up to watch some of the training and observe proceedings. The session was a mixture of sweat and technical breakdown [...]
The Wado Academy winter course was held in Guildford in late Feb 2019. Attended by well over 200 students from all over the world, it was a great success and led by Sensei Arthur Meek 7th Dan, the Wado Academy assistant chief instructor. Many of our club students trained for all or some of [...]
