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Seido karate provides a variety of strenuous exercises designed to teach you the skills of karate, while at the same time progressively increasing your fitness and strength. Initially the focus is on karate basics - hand and arm techniques, kicking, and blocking. As students become more experienced, they are expected to cope with more complex combinations, pre arranged sparring techniques with partners, self defence exercises, the various kata (forms), and finally free sparring. These activities are regularly interspersed with exercises such as pushups and situps, which are designed to increase muscle strength and stamina, but also to build a strong spirit.

Membership Fees
Adult fees are £30 per month and include our insurance with the Martial Arts Development Commission (MADEC). For information on beginners' and childrens' fees please go to the relevant section on the left.

Gradings
Gradings take place several times a year, and are opportunities for students to demonstrate in a more pressurized situation what they have learnt. Upon successful completion of gradings, students are awarded their new belts as at right. A 'kyu' means a level, or grade.

At levels up to green belt, students need to have learnt the required syllabus, and trained regularly for three months to be eligible to grade. From green belt on, students need to train regularly for a minimum of six months, including sparring sessions. In practice, this means it is likely to take a minimum of 3 and half years before reaching 1st kyu. After spending at least another year and a half at first kyu, a student who has trained sufficiently hard and developed their skills satisfactorily may be invited to prepare for the demanding first degree (shodan) black belt grading.