Club News Archive: Friday 11-12-2009 (Club Grading)  Congratulations to Claire Godkin on promotion to 4th Kyu on Friday the 11th of December 2009. Claire  prepared every aspect of her grade very well indeed and it showed in her strong performance. Well done Claire. Saturday 21-11-2009 (Seminar with GM Tommy Jordan and Ken Keating)  Saturday the 21st of November 2009 saw Ballinteer Kenpo Karate Club hosting a self defence seminar with Grand Master Tommy Jordan and Ken Keating. The seminar was split into two stages. The kids were on from 10:00am to 11:30 am and all had a great time during the morning covering different aspects of self defence relative to the age group with Tommy presenting certificates to the children afterwards. The adults were on from 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm. The seminar was supported by the following clubs. Ballinteer Kenpo, East Coast Martial Arts, Rathgar Kenpo, Wicklow kenpo,  Santry Kenpo and Santry traditional Kenpo. The group was split into two mat areas operating simultaneously with Tommy Jordan and Ken Keating changing groups every 30 minutes. Areas covered by Tommy and Ken were Self Defence Techniques against multiple situations , weapons attacks, ground work, weapons use and defence, attack awareness and response , freestyle techniques. For pictures of the seminar go to gallery. Special thanks to the following people for assisting with organising and helping out during the seminar. Claire Godkin - - Hugh Nolan - - James Murphy - - Colm O’Dowd - - Brian O’Hanlon - - Liam Hartnett - - Nigel Sykes - - Bernard Voortman - - Liz Cheuk  and all the students of Ballinteer Kenpo Karate Club. Without you all it wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you all very much Ken. Sunday 19-10-2008 (Seminar with GM Tommy Jordan) Ballinteer Kenpo Karate Club hosted a seminar with Grand Master Tommy Jordan for juniors and seniors. The juniors were put through their paces in the morning covering Forms, Defensive Techniques and Drills. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the morning and all children were presented with their certificates directly after the seminar. The senior seminar ran for the afternoon with G.M. Jordan splitting the seminar into 4 simultaneous groups -Basic/Advanced Defensive Techniques -Freestyle Sparring Techniques. -Freestyle Weapons Sparring/Defence. -Traditional Forms -Weapons Forms (Bo Staff and Sai)  The seniors covered a lot of ground on the day with all achieving their individual desired goals and commenting on the intensive but very enjoyable day. Ballinteer will be hosting seminars in the future with  I.K.A. Senior Instructors covering different aspects of our art. For more details please enter  upcoming events forum. Sunday 31-08-2008 Ballinteer Kenpo Karate Club hosted its first interclub competition on 31/8/08. Clubs represented were Ballinteer, Rathgar, East Coast Martial Arts, Darndale and Santry. In total there were over 80 entrants between all clubs and juniors and seniors represented their clubs well with honours being shared around the individual clubs fairly evenly. On the day the host club  Ballinteer Kenpo Karate achieved best overall club on points narrowly ahead of the chasing clubs. I would like to thank Mr Tommy Jordan Mr Peter Coyle Mr Dave Quinn Mr Tony Devine Mr Willie O’Neill of Rathgar Kenpo Karate , Mr Martin Cousins Mr Michael Byrne of East Coast Martial Arts, Mr Ken Bryan of Santry  Kenpo Karate, Mr Michael Burke of Darndale Kenpo Karate  for their assistance and support on the day. A special thanks to all the Ballinteer senior students for their assistance in the smooth running of the event. Click on to video section for some highlights of championship. Monday 16-02-2009 Congratulations to Mr Martin Cousins on the successful launch of his book ''Making The Grade'' Martial Arts Memoirs (Trafford Publishing). The book was launched in The Sallynoggin Inn on 16/2/08. There was a great turn out for Martins launch and book signing. For details on how to obtain a copy go to link page and enter www.kenpo.ie. Promotions: Congratulations to Liam Hartnett and Nigel Sykes  of Ballinteer on their recent promotion to 4th Kyu. Ken Keating successfully graded to 4th Dan on 30/11/07 in Rathgar Kenpo Karate Club. The grade was judged by a panel of  Mr Tommy Jordan, Mr Peter Coyle, Mr Dave Quinn, Mr Ken Bryan and Mr Martin Cousins. Congratulations to Michael Sykes who graded to Junior 3rd Kyu recently in Ballinteer Kenpo Karate Club under panel of  Mr Jordan,Mr Coyle,Mr Quinn and instructor Ken Keating.