Due to the Welsh Government’s rules on only 15 (over 11s) in Organised Activities indoors, we have made some substantial changes to our timetable. The timetable below takes effect from Monday November 9th until further notice.
First steps back...
Vale Karate will begin indoor classes on Monday Sept 7th.
Initially all group classes will take place in the Main Hall behind closed doors.
The dojo will be used for One-to-One sessions, with one Parent/Guardian in attendance.
Go to Classes/class timetable for our Autumn timetable of classes and Autumn fee structure.
THE NEW NORMAL
When Barry Leisure Centre, like all other Leisure and Sports Centre’s in Wales closed its doors on March 20th, Sensei Rob started filming and posting video tutorials a few times a week for a month or so, to Vale Karate members via facebook, he realised however that this was not the way to keep his members fully invested, so from the end of April, he started arranging a full schedule of classes via zoom.
Including One-to-One’s, more classes were delivered during the lockdown months of May-August than ever before, an impressive fact, as before lockdown, the club ran four classes an evening four days a week and six classes on Saturdays!
In this way, Vale Karate has kept its members engaged and invested.
Although, inevitably, and regrettably around a quarter of members have not taken to the very different way of online Karate training, three quarters of the membership have adapted, trained regularly and very many have progressed!
It was this in mind, that Sensei Rob decided to conduct a zoom grading! The criteria was a strict as ever, with all members who were interested in grading having to attend regularly as well as attending two One-to-One sessions. A number were not ready to grade, but nevertheless almost fifty students graded via zoom between 10th-12th August.
The grading took place in small groups of usually two’s and three’s with a couple of individual gradings. Sensei Rob was very happy with the overall standard and as he only allowed those with a very good chance of passing to grade, all were successful.
On the evening of Friday August 14th, Sensei and Cathy arranged an Outdoor Presentation evening at Sully, where the Outdoor sessions have been taking place and a celebratory socially-distant evening was enjoyed by all in attendance.
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VALE KARATE SUMMER 2020 SCHEDULE
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday classes are via zoom.
Wednesday is an outdoor session, weather permitting.
As the Welsh Government is now allowing outdoor sports sessions we have amended the weekly schedule to include three outdoor sessions on Wednesday evenings:
All Tigers, Beginners, Yellow and Red Belts at 5pm, Green and Blue Belts at 5.30pm, Purple, Brown & Black belts at 6pm at Sully Sports and Leisure Club CF64 5SP.
We suggest you don't wear Karate Uniforms, but comfortable light clothing and definitely trainers!
Social Distancing... Please ensure you/your child keeps a minimum of two metres apart form all others outside your household.
Toilet facilities... We are not sure whether the toilet facilities will be in use, but we urge you to take care of these issues BEFORE coming, and not to use these facilities at this time
Water... Please bring plenty of water to drink.
AMENDED ZOOM CLASS TIMES
From 29th June, when children in Wales can return to school in some for, and to make sure Karate is still available to them; we have amended the class times.
