Category: Club Updates

A rare opportunity to train with one of the UK’s top Karateka is available this month. Sensei John Parnell, 7th Dan, will be the Visiting Instructor at Sochin Karate Club on the afternoon of Saturday, 25 October. This all-grades course will start at 2pm and be held at Kendall...

The founder of Sochin Karate Club has been publicly thanked in recognition of more than five decades as a Karateka. 6th dan Georges Dussart is the Chief Instructor at Canterbury-based Sochin Karate Club and has been presented with a special trophy by Club Chair Emma Rosen and club members....

Sensei Neil Jerome held an all-grades training session on Monday, 21 July, hosted by Sochin Karate Club. Sensei Neil, 6th Dan, is a senior member of the HDKI GB however now lives and teaches in Trondheim University, Norway. With decades of experience he’s a popular instructor in the UK,...

Sochin Karate Club staged a Tai Chi session at beautiful Whitstable Castle to raise the profile of the mental health charity East Kent Mind. The Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Cllr Keji Moses, attended the session to support East Kent Mind, which she has selected as her Charity of the...

Sochin Karate Club – Canterbury will host an all-grades training session led by Sensei Neil Jerome on Monday, 21 July. The event is open to all associations with a £10 charge to join the shotokan training session. Sensei Neil, 6th Dan, is a senior member of the HDKI GB...

Sochin Karate Club members took part in an outdoor session of Tai Chi on the last day of June instead of their normal training routine. The session, on the lawn next to Kendall Hall (by St Mary Bredin Church), Nunnery Fields, Canterbury was great fun and focused on breath...

Sochin Karate Club staged a karate taster session hosted by the Lord Mayor of Canterbury. The session was held at Tower House in the beautiful Westgate Gardens of Canterbury to promote the free and subsidised places the club has available through its This Girl Can campaign. Sochin Karate Club...

Sochin Karate Club is now able to offer a limited number of free and discounted places to teenage girls and women thanks to funding provided by Active Kent and Medway. The club has launched a This Girl Can campaign to shout about the physical and mental health benefits of...

Sensei Sam Birch, 6th Dan, from Shotokan Connect will deliver a training session and grading from 1pm on Sunday, 25 May, 2025. The session will be hosted by Sochin Karate Club in Canterbury and held at Kendall Hall, Nunnery Fields, Canterbury....

The Sheriff of Canterbury, Cllr Keji Moses, took time out from a hectic schedule to blow off a little steam this week and to help shout about a new campaign to encourage women to take up karate. Cllr Keji Moses visited Sochin Karate Club, based at Kendall Hall, Nunnery...