Grading – November 2017

Grading – November 2017

Yesterday we held one of our busiest (and most organised!) grading sessions yet! Grading is a really nice way of tracking your progress, giving you the chance to work your way up from white belt to black belt (if you’re particularly good!). On Sunday we had...
New Gym at Tigerstyle Sports Karate

New Gym at Tigerstyle Sports Karate

So you may have noticed that over the past few months we’ve been in the process of extending the gym to create a lovely new gym area to train in. We’ve knocked through walls, built new ones, rewired lights, sanded, painted and generally been extremely busy...
Sparring Development Sessions (Part Two)

Sparring Development Sessions (Part Two)

We had a great day yesterday running our second sparring development session for the kids. The sessions are especially designed for students we feel might benefit from (and enjoy!) some extra sparring experience. This week we focused a lot on fitness drills and made...
Happy Halloween from Tigerstyle!

Happy Halloween from Tigerstyle!

We love having a bit of fun in our kids class (amongst all the hard work!), so with Halloween falling on a Tuesday this year we thought it was a great opportunity to dress up and train in our Halloween fancy dress!! Granted, it was a slightly smaller class than usual,...
ICO World Cup, Birmingham 2017

ICO World Cup, Birmingham 2017

Last weekend we were over at the ICO World Cup in Birmingham with our fighters Josh Hayden, Summer Kaur, Denis Singh, Cody Legg, Barry Plechowicz and Gurmare Singh representing the England team! The ICO World Cup was spread over three days with fighters travelling...
Sparring Development Sessions

Sparring Development Sessions

Yesterday we ran the first of our sparring development sessions! The sessions are designed for younger students we think might benefit from, and particularly enjoy, sparring and learning more about sparring. It was a great two hour session, with everyone working...