The annual Legends Open Shotokan Karate Championships, held in Bracknell, brings together a large number of Shotokan Karate groupss from around the country. This year, SSKI fielded a strong squad of nearly twenty including Adam Cockfield, Rachael Houlton and Christopher Boon from the London Dojo. The competition was, as always, of a Read more…
SSKI held its 25th National championships on September 11th at the Honbu Dojo in Hemel Hempstead school. It was a great day, with excellent karate and a brilliant atmosphere from both spectators and competitors. The London Dojo took a strong team of sensei Adam, sensei Chris, sensei Sarah, sensei Caspar, Read more…
SSKI once again teamed up with SEKU to take a combined squad (including Sensei Adam, Rachael and Eve from the London Dojo) to the WJKA World Championships in Belgium. Despite stiff competition the squad enjoyed numerous successes, the pinnacle of which was Sensei Adam’s 1st place in the highly competitive Read more…
On July 3rd 2011 several SSKI squad members attended the Shikon London International Open event in Harlow, Essex. The standard was very high, however we still managed to come away with some tin, with Sensei Adam winning the Men’s Shobu Ippon event! We now turn our focus to the WJKA Read more…
On the 12th of March a strong SSKI squad, headed by Sensei Adam as association coach, attended the Legend Open Competition in Bracknell. It was a brilliant day for SSKI, who came home with a very impressive haul of medals. Sensei Adam lead the way, winning gold in the senior Read more…
The 2011 SSKI Shotokan Shield Competition took place on Sunday the 20th of Feb. The London Club once again put in a strong showing, coming home with the following medals: Men’s Senior Kata: 1st Place, Sensei Adam Cockfield Adult Team Kata: 3rd Place, Sensei Adam Cockfield, Eve Martinez, Rachael Houlton Read more…
An SSKI squad headed by Sensei Adam, joined forces with SEKU to send a combined England team to the SKDUN World Championships in Lons Le Saunier, France. Sensei Teiki and Rachael from the London club were also competing. It was huge event with approximately 750 competitors from 36 countries. The Read more…
This year the London club dominated the adult events at the SSKI Nationals at the Honbu in Hemel Hempstead! Sensei Adam, Sensei Teiki, Andy, Tony, Rachael and Eve all returned with medals, with Sensei Adam receiving the adult competitor of the day after winning the senior men’s Kata event and Read more…
Sensei Teiki was selected to represent French Polynesia in the 14th Oceania Karate Championships in Tahiti, where he won the Silver medal in the senior mens -75Kg category. This is an absolutely brilliant result, and had it not been for some highly questionable refereeing Teiki could very well have won Read more…
Sensei Adam took a small (elite!) SSKI team of Anthony Holt, Christy Nash, Monika Orban and Rachael Houlton to the WJKA European Championships in Holland, and impressively all competitors returned home with medals! SSKI Results: Ladies Junior Kumite 1st Rachael Houlton Ladies Junior Kata 1st Rachael Houlton Girl’s Senior Kumite Read more…