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Happy New Year 2026

pburrows5 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:54:31 +0000

Happy New Year to all our members and friends. We have so much to look forward to this year with the extra fortnightly class in Dirleton Kirk hall which will concentrate on different aspects of our training throughout the year. We have courses and gradings and competitions coming up in the first quarter of 2026. More details will follow.

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JKA Scotland Championships 2025

pburrows5 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:26:54 +0000

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!

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Happy New Year!!

Clare McIntyre — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:33:34 +0000

We’re happy to welcome all karate students back to the dojo after a relaxing festive break. Looking forward to a year of karate spirit and dedicated training, with everyone reaching their karate goals and maybe earning a few medals and new belts along the way.

If you have ever wanted to try karate, then 2025 could be your year! Come along for a few trial sessions of traditional JKA karate at our friendly club. We run classes in Gullane on Mondays and in Dirleton on Wednesdays. Drop a message to find out more or book online.

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The JKA Bass Rock Karate Party

Clare McIntyre — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:28:30 +0000

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.

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Successful Grading October 2024

Clare McIntyre — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:18:24 +0000

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!

Hot tired and happy students after a day of training and grading

Congratulations to our Senior Mairi on achieving Ni Dan

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Sensei John Deans – puts us through our paces

Clare McIntyre — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:27:41 +0000

We were delighted to welcome Sensei John Deans (5th Dan JKA Instructor and Scottish squad manager and coach) to our dojo to put us through our paces. We were treated to a high energy course that left our brains buzzing and muscles aching.

Sensei John bought his experience, West Coast wit and eye for detail, to teach 3 hours focusing on Kata and Kumite. Working through the key elements of Attitude, Technique, Speed and Strength, and connecting the precision of Kata with the energy and power of free sparring.

Did we learn a lot? OSS Sensei!

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What our Students Think

pburrows5 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:55:23 +0000

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

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Successful Gradings

pburrows5 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:14:05 +0000

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.

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JKA Bass Rock Gi Jackets

pburrows5 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:43:07 +0000

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.

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Welcome to a Visiting Instructor

pburrows5 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:00:50 +0000

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

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