Sensei Mathew Powell 3rd Dan, SEKU Squad vice captain, was a guest instructor at Portsmouth Honbu on Tuesday 17th February and didn't disappoint.

The class began with kicks performed from the floor, covering mawashi geri, yoko geri keage/ kekomi, and ushiro mawashi geri. I could see from the student's faces that they were enjoying the novel way of performing this variety of kicks. Sensei Powell then covered heian shodan and nidan before getting the class to pair up and try out a variety of attacking techniques. While moving around their partner students made use of an array of kicks and punches from all sorts of angles. The senior class covered Bassai dai and Empi with some bunkai .

Portsmouth Karate club would like to thank Sensei Powell for his very interesting and enjoyable class and hope that he will return to give us some more to think about in the very near future.

Many Thanks

Stacey Crowe