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Oxford Shotokan Ryu Kase Ha follow the teachings of the late Master Taiji Kase
Set up in 1985 by Norman Gomersall 4th Dan after moving to Oxford from Bradford. The club was affiliated to the Karate Union of Great Britain until 1990 when Norman joined the newly formed English Shotokan Academy, founded by the late Sensei Steve Cattle 6th Dan.
The style of karate that we train in is Shotokan Ryu Kase Ha, a form of Shotokan karate developed by the late Master Taiji Kase. It was a desire to improve and develop his karate in a more traditional way that Sensei Gomersall followed Steve Cattle and trained many times with Sensei Kase.
Sensei Gomersall is still the senior instructor at the club and along with senior club members regularly attend courses in the UK and Europe. We train with senior instructors of the SRKH Academy including Sensei Dirk Heene 7 Dan from Belgium, Sensei Velibor Dimitrijevic 6 Dan from Serbia, now residing in Greece and Sensei Pascal Lecourt 6 Dan from France. These distinguished instructors are members of the Shihanki (the executive Sensei Kase set up to carry on the development of his karate).
We are a friendly club and welcome beginners and experienced karateka to join us and learn the advanced style of shotokan karate that Sensei Kase has left us.
If you are considering taking karate, look around at local clubs before you make a decision, it is important that you find a style and club that suits you. We are not sports karate orientated, we train in a traditional form of karate, the way karate was practiced before the popularity of competitions.
We take beginners over the age of 18.
Training times
We train on Mondays between 8.00pm and 9.30pm and Wednesday evenings between 7.00pm to 8.30pm at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon.
Fees
It costs £5 per session and an annual licence fee is £20. There is no club membership fee.
30th August 2007
New course dates.
Sensei Heene course dates added here
Mike Cowburn (front left) with son Ashley(back left)
after training session at Oxford |
12th July 2007
New video of Sensei Kase added.
Updates to the course in Greece.
27th June 2007
Changed the course details about Oxford to reflect what happened on the course.
15th April 2007
Added photographs to the Portugese March '07 course and the London '07 course.
4th March 2007
Renamed Readings section to Links, added a new link
6th February 2007
Pictures from Glasgow's February course with Sensei Heene
19th December 2006
Sensei Schubert's visit to Oxford photo's added
7th Nov, 2006
Sensei Hassle's visit to Oxford photo's added
31st Oct, 2006
Photo section retitled to media
YouTube video's added
30th Oct, 2006
Events calendar updated
Photo's of Sensei Heene added
24th Oct, 2006
Photo's of Sensei Kase in Germany.
23rd Oct, 2006
Details of the Oxford Course with Sensei Heene.
Photo's of Oxford students.
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