August 14 2010 was a VERY important day for school owner John Ward and Instructor Angela Prince. This was the day that they both received promotion to their next dahn grade at the special ceremony during the Meeting of Grandmasters. It was a fantastic event and a great trip. Read all about here....

Sunday 9th May saw a great event at the school. KJN John Watson, 6th Dahn  Kuk Sool Master, came to give a seminar.
KJN John  is renowned for his ability in all areas of martial arts and is arguably the best practitioner of Kuk Sool in UK today.
The seminar included sparring and staff sparring techniques as well as some very practical self defence.
Students were taught practical ways to defend against some of the more common attacks such as groin kicks, grabs to the throat and "haymaker" or hook type punches.
The amazing thing was that many of the techniques used in these defences were taken from the very earliest techniques and forms in the Kuk Sool syllabus, meaning that they were just as practical for beginners as for more seasoned practitioners. 

August this year (2010) will see an epic event in martial arts history. For the first time, Grandmasters of seven different Korean Martial Arts will gather together along with Masters and Assistant Masters for a celebrataion of Martial Arts. The event is to help celebrate Grandmaster Rudy Timmerman's 60th anninversary of martial arts training and his 70th birthday.
The event, which takes place over three days, will include seminars by all the various Masters and Grandmasters and some lucky people will be testing for their next Dahn grade.

SBN John Ward, our own school owner is one of those lucky people and he is testing for his 5th dahn. He will be accompanied by JKN Angela Prince who is testing for her 2nd dahn. In addition, as well as attending the various seminars on offer, the couple will also receive personal tuition over a number of days from GM Timmerman and other Masters of Kuk Sool, Hapkido and Kong Shin Bup.
But the greatest honour of all is for SBN John to actually take part in teaching during the seminar section of the weekend. When SBN John started his training, people like Master Sims were already established as Masters of Kuk Sool, so for him to now be effectively "sharing the bill" with them is indeed a great honour.
For details of the whole event you can go to the NKKMAA website or just CLICK HERE!