Li Sen Tan’s Karate Foundations

A couple of weeks ago I competed for Cambridge University at the BUCS Karate Championships. After successfully winning my first round of individual Kata, I narrowly lost the next round two to three. I found the experience of competing was a lot of fun, and enjoyed cheering on my teammates. I found seeing all the…

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JSKE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS – 22nd JUNE 2024

SKC England sent some of their students to the Japan Shotokan Karate England open championships on Saturday 22 June 2024. There was a fabulous team spirit, with our competitors supporting each other. They all performed their very best and gaining lots of experience for future competitions. SKCE is very proud of every single one of…

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SKDUN Legends – Guildford 16th March 2024

The Legends Open is a long standing championships and this year had teams entering from all over the UK and a team from Belgium. SKCE entered a relatively inexperienced team, many of whom were first time competitors. There was a fabulous team spirit, with our competitors supporting each other. They all performed their very best…

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SKCE National Championships 2023 – Sunday 19th November

The 2023 SKC England National Championships took place at Willesden sports centre on 19th November.  This was our first championships since the Covid lockdown.  Since most of our students will have not had recent experience of competition (if any at all), the day started with a short course. Students were split by grade and were…

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SKDUN Legends – Guildford 25th March 2023

SKCE took a small team of competitors to the 22nd Legends Open championships, a very friendly and well run competition which has moved from Bracknell to its new location in Guildford this year. The team was accompanied by Janita Tan & Andrew Christoforou as coaches. Many of the SKCE team were experiencing competition for the…

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SKCE Invitational Championships 2021 – POSTPONED

Sorry to disappoint those that were looking forward to this competition but SKCE has decided to postpone the SKCE Invitational Championships scheduled for 21 November 2021 until (a provisional date of) 13 February 2022. We will confirm the February date towards the end of this year and if it seems that date will not work…

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SKCE INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 – SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER

The SKC England invitational Championships were held on Sunday 3rd November 2019 at Brunel University. The following invited associations attended:   FSKA                                       ISKF                                        RIVERSIDE SKC TSK                                         KE/UKA                                  RENGOKAI SKDUN                                   KANKU                                   SASORI   With a total of 452 individual entries and 30 teams, the competition started at 9.30am and finished soon after 7.00pm. With the…

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SKCE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2018

2018 – A NEW EXCITING CHAMPIONSHIP VENUE BY GERRY GREY, CHAIRMAN, SKCE As you can see from the preceding results there was a very full and exciting programme of competition involving not only members of SKCE but also those from other invited Shotokan organisations who share similar ethos to that of SKCE. This year the…

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UK Open Karate Championships – 30th September 2018

We took a small group of SKCE squad members to the UK Open Karate Championships in East London. This was an open competition for all styles of Karate and operating with seven tatami’s. There were all lot of competitors and for the newer members of the squad in particular, it was a good way to…

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TSKUK OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

SKCE 2018 SQUAD : TSKUK OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018 Sportspark, University of East Anglia, Norwich – Sunday 8 July 2018 Squad Results: . . Individual Events: . Ollie Hood 1st Individual Kumite: . Male Cadets 15-17yrs Dan Grades . Alexandra Merisoiu 1st Individual Kata: . Female 18+ yrs Dan Grades . Sophie Buhler 1st Individual Kata:…

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Middlesex Open Karate Championships 2018

SKCE Results:     Individual events: Alice Wright 1st – girls (9-10yrs) individual kata   Daisy McQuaid 2nd – girls (9-10yrs) individual kata    Judy Abdelwahid 3rd – girls (9-10yrs) individual kata    Ben Whiteman 2nd – boys (9-10yrs brown and black belts) individual kata   Krizzh Sriskantharajah 4th – boys (9-10yrs) individual kata   Max…

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JSKA UK Competition – 3rd February 2018

SKCE Results: Freddie Pinkney won silver in Boys Individual Kumite 10-11 yrs Dylan Hughes won silver in Boys Individual Kata 12-13 yrs. Jodie Harris won bronze in Girls Individual Kata 14-15 yrs. Joshua Han won gold in Individual Kata 16-17 yrs. Alexandra Merisoiu won gold in Senior Female Individual Kata and silver in Senior Female…

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Bracknell Legends Open 2018

The weather was so awful that many of those on SKCE 2018 Squad entered for the competition could not get to Bracknell on the day.  However, our results were great:   Individual Kata under 12yrs up to 4th Kyu Daisy McQuaid – 1st t Max Bentley – 2nd Nadeen Abdelwahid – 3rd (joint)   Individual…

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SKCE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS – SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2017

The following are the medal winners at the SKCE National Championships held on Sunday 15th October 2017 at the Willesden Sports Centre.  Photographs and report to follow :-   KUMITE BOYS & GIRLS JUNIOR 12yrs & under   Up to 8th Kyu 1st Martha Pouffou 2nd Elijah Dubery-Coupe 3rd Ryan Attout   KUMITE BOYS JUNIOR…

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WMO World Championships

A fantastic achievement by Hannah Mercer of SKC England at the recent ‘W M O’ World Championships.  She placed first (Gold) in Team Kata and second (Silver) in Individual Kata. The Championships were held in Dublin over 3 days, 11/12/13 October.   Hannah performed fantastically against very strong competition from Canada, Australia and South African as well…

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IJKA World Championships 2017

The SKCE 2017 Team selected by Squad Coach Leon, travelled to Cork, Ireland on Saturday, 8 July to compete at the IJKA 2017 World Championships. We didn’t spend a long time in Cork but it was sunny (not what we were expecting!) and the locals were friendly, so a very nice location for these Championships.…

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