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Highly Successful Hedge End Junior Team, EGKA Southern Area Championships May 2011 Welcome to the Hedge End School of Goju-Ryu Karate. We are based in Hedge End near Southampton in Hampshire, the HSGK is open to both junior and adult students. It doesn't matter if you are fit or unfit old or young over weight or under weight we can teach you traditional karate to the highest standards. The HSGK is a very friendly club. We welcome everyone from the complete novice to those who want to get back into karate after a break from training. HSGK is a well established karate school head instructor Alan Woodhouse has many years experience teaching children and adults the art of karate.
This philosophy also stresses that there is no first attack in karate. Children especially, are taught this and quickly begin to benefit what traditional karate has to offer.
The HSGK is a full member of the English Goju-Ryu Karate Association. Contact us now on 01489 782038 or email alan.woodhouse@hsgk.org.uk
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Instructors Sensei Alan Woodhouse 4th Dan IOGKF over 30 years karate training Sensei John Fernandez 2nd Dan IOGKF (20 years karate training) has been assisting Sensei Alan with the junior classes for the past four years Both of our instructors are fully insured, have enhcnaced CRB checks and first aid certificates
Sensei Peter Foulkes was a student and best friend of Sensei Alan sadly passed away 3rd March 2011 will be greatly missed by all students at HSGK.
Monday Evening Adult Class
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If you or your children want to learn karate to the highest standards contact
Sensei Alan Woodhouse 01489 782038 mobile 07909 523583 or email alan.woodhouse@hsgk.org.uk
For a membership application and licence renewal form, please click here.
There are many benefits that you will receive upon becoming a member of the English Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Association.
The EGKA is the largest member country of the IOGKF, and as such membership gives you a privileged opportunity to learn and train directly with Morio Higaonna Shihon, who is one of the foremost authorities on Goju-Ryu karate in the world today. Most of our senior senseis regular travel to Okinawa to train directly with Higaonna Sensei to ensure that instruction here in England remain true to the teachings of Goju-Ryu founder, Chojun Miyagi Shihon.
All EGKA instructors are fully vetted, insured and trained by the EGKA to maintain the high teaching standards we expect. It is not only about ensuring the teaching methods remain true to the original approach that has worked for centuries in Okinawa. It is about training in a safe and disciplined environment, where the instructors themselves have been properly trained to bring on their students in a responsible way as the individual develops the physical strength and stamina, as well as the correct mental attitude necessary to practice Goju-Ryu at the higher levels. Goju-Ryu is a fighting system, and it is inevitable that some minor contact injuries will occur. Our Instructors are trained, however, to create a strict and safe training environment in the dojo, especially in the case of instructing children, where the opportunity for injuries are minimised. It is often said that the standard of teaching you will receive, will only ever be as good as the standard of the teacher themselves. In the case of an EGKA instructor, that standard will be self evidently very high.
Being a member of the EGKA provides you with the opportunity to network with thousands of other Goju-Ryu practitioners around the world. Apart from developing friendships that can last a last a lifetime, you will have the opportunity to share training, experiences, knowledge and expertise from other dojos around the world that can only broaden and develop your own standard and enjoyment of our martial art.
Over 50 countries now run IOGKF sponsored international, national and regional Gasshukus (training seminars) each year. Being a member of the EGKA, through its affiliation with the IOGKF, ensures you will always arrive to a friendly reception. You will also discover their method of training is similar to your own.
As a member of the EGKA, you will be kept informed of all the latest events, technical and historical information through this website and through the information the EGKA pass through directly to the senior senseis of our licensed dojos.
The EGKA welcomes new members regardless of age, race, sex, religion or martial arts background. There are certain requirements for membership, however, the most important being the acceptance that members will continue to learn and teach the traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do in its original form, as handed down by its founder Chojun Miyagi Sensei. Higaonna Sensei has devoted his life to preserving these teachings, and it is the responsibility of all EGKA members to continue to do the same. It is also considered important to accept that the essence of karate lies in the kata, which must be practiced correctly and diligently in order to discover the essential principles and "hidden" meanings of karate. To the new student these requirements may seem strange and foreign to the modern way of thinking where little regard is given to tradition. But as one progresses and learns more about Goju-Ryu it becomes apparent the reasoning behind preserving the traditional method of teaching is simply because it works. Any attempt to dilute or westernise the methodology only serves to weaken what is a serious and effective fighting system for self defence.
For more information about EGKA membership please email Mike Draper. For details of how to apply for membership, or to renew your existing licence please click here.
Sensei Peter Foulkes 1964 - 2011 