We had karate demo on Saturday 31st May 2014 in a Polish school in Dublin. It was a great day. In the beginning we showed kihon and kumite. Then we had two demos with
kids from killester dojo. We also presented kata and in the end Sensei Patrick and myself showed tamashiwari.

I want to give a big thanks to Sensei Patrick  and all my friends who supported me on the day.

Bartek

Osu!!!

Report by Alan McCoy

Members of our club were invited to perform a demonstration, as part of Westmeath Sport Partnership Destination sport week. We were asked to do a twenty minute slot in the market square along with some other sporting clubs. We decided to do a mixed demo, showing the crowd various parts of our style.

This included a basic warm up followed by some basic strikes and kicks in Sanchin  Dachi with Kiai, lead by Sensei Ken Fitzpatrick  which attracted the crowd to what we were doing.

Following this we did 2 x 1minute round of anything on the thai pads which showed how contolled and powerful our technique can be, Mixing knockdown and street techniques. Then Sensei Ken and Senpai Ciaran Stapleton demonstrated some self defence moves, which they showed first and then got the other club members to perform on each other, one for one. Sweeps were included which show the power and skill in these self defence movements. To finish Senpai Alan and Darren performed Tameshiwari, showing how the strikes can be adapted. Hand, legs and head techniques were used through one piece of wood which really impressed the crowd.

Overall the demo was put together and performed extremely well by all members of the club. The crowd was very impressed by all parts of the demo. The feedback was positive. This was a great chance to showcase our club and style to the local people. 

Thanks to Westmeath Sport Partnership for their invitation, and to all the Club members who gave up their Sunday afternoon to help out.

Alan

The oldest established dojo in the IKK is Killester dojo which is located in St Brigids BNS KIllester. On Friday 21st June Shihan Kevin assisted by Sensei Shane Lalor, Sensei Jon Maher and Sensei Shane Mulhall  performed a demonstration for about 150 boys from the school.

Shihan Kevin was introduced by the school principal and then proceeded to give a brief introduction to Kyokushin Karate. The three Sensei then performed a brief warmup followed by some Kihon and a Kata demonstration where they performed Pinan Sono Ni. This was followed by Sensei Shane Mulhall and Sensei Jon demonstrating Kumite. Next Sensei Shane Lalor and Sensei Jon did a tameshiwari demo - Sensei Shane breaking with Seiken and Sensei Jon with Shuto.

Shihan then answered some very far ranging questions from the boys - How long does it take to get a black belt? Where did Karate come from? Does it hurt doing breaks?

After the Q&A session the principal thanked Shihan and the Sensei for coming along.

Shane