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Breaking Seminar - Woodfield School, Redditch

Mr Alistair Banks is running a Breaking Seminar for all ages on how to break effectively and how to break materials. The seminar will be held at the Woodfield Middle School on the 5th of June (4pm til 6pm) and is only £5 for 2 hours (plus any extra for materials eg wood, breeze blocks and tiles ect). If you are interested in this great opportunity to learn how to break properly then please contact Mr Banks directly on 07890 000 174.

New Ladies Only Class - Whitnash

Off to a Flying Start! Wednesdays 6.30-7.30pm St Josephs Rc Church, Murcott Rd East, Whitnash, Leamington Spa CV31 2JJ. Master Petina Barlow and Mrs Andrea Lambert are starting a new ladies only karate class. If you are interested in joining these 2 highly skilled and experienced instructors in a womens only environment then please contact Mrs Lambert on 07810 193271 or email directly This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

New Circuit Madness Training Session!

Mr Danney Lee, from the dark side of the force, has started up a new Circuit Training Session every Tuesday in Bedworth. The session is only £3 for 45 mins and will be held at Cannon Maggs School between 8:15pm and 9:00pm.

If you want to get fit and have a great body for the summer sun then get along to Danny's training session now!  Enjoy! ;)

Sport Relief 2010 - you did it!

Throughout the month of March we had a number of activities in aid of sport relief. We had cake sales at the GUP gradings, Laura Drayton and Lily Suffling did a sponsored run, we had an ongoing quiz, a raffle, a sponsored silence by Aaron Worley and a Quiz night in Meriden.

When all of the sponsor money is in we will have hit our £1000 target! Thank you to everyone that has worked hard to make our fundraising an overwhelming sucess!

Master Trudgill’s Annual Tournament

Saturday May 15^th 2010

I know how everyone looks forward to this event and that time has come around again to make preparations for our trip to Cardiff. The tournament will take place at the National Indoor Athletic Centre, Cardiff and the usual categories apply – forms and sparring for all, and breaking for all grades and ages 12 years and over, and weapons for Black belts.

Nuneaton Gradings 

Congratulations to all those who passed their grading at The Nuffield Health Club in Nuneaton on Saturday 6^th March. It’s always difficult being ‘first up’, but they gave a good performance and showed full knowledge of their syllabus. The last group of seniors were fantastic – a real inspiration to the lower grades who got the chance to watch them. They really set a great standard! It’s good that the gradings are not rushed and run to time and our decision to spread the opportunities to grade is paying off.

In addition to a great grading experience, we launched our fundraising for Sport Relief 2010 with a cake sale after the work was done – and we raised £78. Thank you for your generosity. Read more about our fundraising later on the site.

Next gradings will be at Woodfield Middle School, Redditch on Saturday 20^th March. See your instructor for your allotted time. Northampton gradings will be held after Easter and the Bromsgrove, Solihull and Coventry Schools gradings will be held in accordance with their timetables.

The next opportunity to take Dan grades will be in May – if you are considering entering for this, please make sure you are eligible by speaking to your instructor.

Ryukyu Kobujutsu

I am pleased to report that I recently managed to pass my grading in the weapons art of Ryukyu Kobujutsu. I find the training really challenging and it adds enormously to my understanding of our art and indeed all the arts! I work with a great group of people who, like ourselves, are willing to share all their knowledge in the furtherance of their art. Danny Lee is now also training there with me and is enjoying the challenge of the technical aspects of  what we do….patience, Danny, patience….!!

Training with the Masters

Bridgend – Saturday 27^th February 2010 

‘Always up for a session’…that was my response when invited by Master Vivien Thomas to attend a 4 hour seminar with 4 Tang Soo Do Masters down in Bridgend, Wales. We so enjoy going down to South Wales to visit with all our colleagues down there, but this time we also had chance to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Our special thanks goes to Richard Drayton for providing the ATMA with a new Web Server to host our website from.

The website has now been fully transferred to the new server and we have done a series of initial tests to confirm that the website transferred as expected. However, in the unlikely event that you come across an issue then please do get in touch ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and we will try to resolve any problem ASAP!

For those of you with ATMA email addresses I shall contact you directly to confirm your new email details.