John Parnell, 6th Dan

Welcome to our series of posts giving some background to our SHOTORAMA instructors! We sent out a list of vague and open-ended questions to our panel of instructors, hoping to shed some light on their experience and passion for karate. Read on below to find out more about our first instructor, John Parnell (rokyudan). John […]

Opening SHOTORAMA to the world!

Some URGENT and EXCITING news from camp shotorama! Prepare yourselves: if you are sitting down, you’d better stand up, because you’re going to want to sit down when you hear… SHOTORAMA is now open to ALL KARATEKA, not just KUGB! It makes sense, really; the full day of training and workshops we have put […]

Free* as a bird…

*discounted! June is early-bird discount month! Not only is SHOTORAMA, the year’s go-to festival of shotokan, bringing you 6 hours of top-quality karate instruction from the southern region for the bargain cost of £25 (adults, £15 children under 14), but courageous souls who sign up before 30th June will get an extra £5 off the […]

This must be what a social media strategy feels like

People are signing up! It’s really happening. Or at least, it’s early days and all we can really say is that it has started, but the thrill of it is hard to ignore. I’m looking forward to see how how it all pans out. And in the meantime we have no time to be idle; […]

Deep Breath In

Well, looks like we’re finally ready to launch! Here at the start of May, I already feel like we’ve come a long way. The immense number of emails, messages, and conversations over the last couple of months have been slowly chipping away, revealing something of substance underneath the blank slate we started with, and […]