The JKA Scotland Championships 2025 took place on Saturday 15th April.

What a day for JKA Bass Rock with more than half of the club participating either as competitors, referees or staff, with wider family coming along as cheerleaders.

We are so proud of our medal winners, who brought home an array of
Bronze, Silver and Golds!  26 trophies to be exact including Junior Outstanding Competitor 2025. But we are also delighted that our team
consisted of everyone from white belt beginners, starting their karate
journey, to Black belts testing their metal against their peers.

There was competition, Kime, and camaraderie on display. Everyone found
something to celebrate and something to inspire or learn from and
everyone who took part is a champion in our eyes.

Now time to get back to the Dojo and start honing those skills for next
time!

As 2024 comes to a close, we celebrated our last training session with true Karate spirit. Energetic pad work, controlled kata and a Karate tunnel to add some spice.

The Mike Mitchell cup for ‘Karate student of the year’ was awarded to recognise the hard work, commitment and karate spirit shown by both one Junior and one Senior.

We topped it all off with a celebratory cake baked by one of our members, and a chance to socialise and chat before heading off for holidays.

We will be opening our doors again to members old and new on January 6th. Ready to work of the mince pies and to continue to develop our skills.

We are delighted to celebrate with our JKA Bass Rock students who recently graded at the 2024 JKA Scotland Gasshuku. We were treated to classes with amazing instructors, Sensei Hirayama 7^th Dan JKA  from the Honbu Dojo and Sensei Ohta 7^th Dan JKA, Chief instructor of JKA England, followed by Kyu gradings, which resulted in a clean sweep of new belts.

Our Senior grades took part across all 3 days training and we would like to give special congratulations to our Senior Mairi who was awarded Ni Dan, under the watchful eyes of Sensei Hirayama, Sensei Ohta, Sensei Alan Simpson and the JKA Scotland technical committee. It was a great achievement based on hard work and committed training. Oss!

We asked our students, how they felt about karate and our club… here’s what they said.

We are delighted that all our students who either Kyu graded during the JKA Scotland Gasshuku or with Sensei John Deans, from the JKA Scotland Technical Committee in our own dojo at the beginning of November, were successful in their endeavours.

All the students either trained with our visiting instructors in October or with Sensei Deans this month. All the hard work has paid off. If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Our Students loved showing off their new over gi jackets. We train as a club and we represent our club out with the dojo, respect for all.

We are delighted that Sensei John Deans 5th Dan JKA will be visiting our dojo on Monday, 12th December 2022. He will be looking after our normal 7.15pm class and we hope that you will make every effort to attend. Visiting JKA Scotland licensed members from other JKA Scotland clubs are more than welcome to come along. Please just get in touch .

Sensei John Deans 5th Dan JKA

JKA Scotland Coach

JKA Scotland Technical Committee

JKA Scotland National Committee

Don’t miss this class it will be awesome

On the 19th February, all the clubs in JKA Scotland East Region converged on our JKA Bass Rock dojo for the first Regional grading since before the Covid lockdown.

What a fantastic day was had by all! The buzz in the dojo was electric as we were treated to a superb learning course by Sensei Ohta. Well done to all who made it along. some travelling further than others but all keen to get to training.

A huge well done to those JKA Bass Rock students who passed their grading that day. Hard work sees the rewards.