 Students and instructors from the Farnham, Haslemere and Guildford clubs joined the Wado Ryu England team to train and compete in the Tokyo Budokan in August 2024. Members got to train at a number of venues including at the Nihon University Karate club, before the weekend intense competition over two days. Thanks to [...]
 Several club students attended the 2024 Wado Academy summer course in Somerset, with great instruction from Sensei Arthur & others who taught on behalf of Shiomitsu Sensei 9th Dan Hanshi. Thanks to everyone who attended & well done to those who passed their gradings...the clubs have a new 1st Dan. Pictured are some [...]
 The 3rd generation Wado-Ryu Grandmaster, Hironori Otsuka III, came to Europe to conduct a number of seminars for Wado Academy students and other Wado-Ryu enthusiasts. The first weekend was Oslo in Norway, then Paris in France and lastly Rome in Italy. Students from the club attended the Paris seminar, which consisted of 3 [...]
 The clubs were delighted to see Greg pass his 1st Dan Black Belt in front of a distinguished grading panel on the 2024 Winter Course. This was his 3rd attempt at his black belt and he showed great spirit and tenacity to finally achieve his goal. As we always say, no mean feat [...]
 The annual Winter Course was held at the Guildford Spectrum in February 2024 under the senior instructors, led by Arthur Meek 8th Dan Sensei. The five days went quickly and over 200 students came from all over Europe to take part in the intense seminar. At the end of the course our Farnham [...]
 The 9 times World & European Champion hosted his 12th seminar for the clubs in Farnham in early 2023. Over seventy students had 3 hours tuition of his legendary fighting techniques and were put through their paces. Sensei Wayne may be the most successful karate competitor of all time, but he teaches with [...]
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 [...]
