Congratulations to the SSK team who competed at the AMA International in Sheffield last weekend. Daisy: Kata 2x Gold 🥇🥇 Kumite Gold & Silver 🥇 🥈 Dan: Kumite Bronze 🥉 Jess: Kata Silver 🥈 Kumite Bronze 🥉 Jenson: Kata Bronze 🥉 Lucy: Kata Silver 🥈 Kumite Bronze 🥉 Sai: Fought well but just missing the podium.

European Champions Cup 2023 - Romania 🥇🥇🥉 #karate #warrington #manchester #chorley #marple

Great performances from Jess at the 2023 European champions cup in Romania last weekend. Just missing out on the podiums but always improving. Very pleased with her performance - watch this space! #karate #kumite #kata

Congratulations Jenson! European Champions Cup 2023 -Romania - Kumite Bronze 🥉 Great fights against some tough opponents. #karate #kata #kumite

Congratulations Dan! European Champions Cup 2023 - Romania- Kata Gold 🥇 Winning all 3 rounds - smashed it🔥🔥🔥 #karate #kata #kumite #dansyontour

Great weekend away with the team. EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP - ROMANIA 🥇 🥇🥉

Congratulations Daisy. European Champions Cup 2023 Romania - Kata Gold 🥇 Perfect performance smashing all 3 rounds and finishing a whopping .9 above a very good American athlete. #karate #kata #americansarebadlosers #smashedall3rounds #sillylittleamericancoachwouldntshakemyhand

NEW BLACK BELTS. Congratulations to our 4 new black belts - Deyang, Xiang Wen, Billy & Isabel. Congratulations to our 6 new 2nd Dans - Stu, Ben, Sai, Jordan, Daisy & Dan. Hard work pays off - well done guys! 🥋 #blackbelt #karate #warrington #penketh #urmston

A Massive thank you to Paula for giving up her time to referee at the WUKF World Championships 2023 this week in Dundee. Very much appreciated xx

Daisy McAndrew 🥈🥉 WUKF World Silver Medallist - Open Kata WUKF World Bronze Medallist - Shito Ryu Kata

Dan Trow🥉 WUKF World Bronze Medallist - Shito Ryu Kata

A massive congratulations to Eoin on passing his Black Belt 4th Dan! Eoin has been training with us for over 20yrs and is one of our original adult members. The OG! 😂 He’s shown amazing dedication over the years constantly training and constantly improving. An absolute pleasure to work with and it’s an honour for us as instructors to spend so long with a student getting to know them and watching them develop into an incredibly knowledgeable martial artist. Saturday was a long, hard grading and he thoroughly deserves his grade. Demonstrating a vast understanding of karate in terms of performance, history and theory / principles of its application. 👏 🥋 We really couldn’t have asked for more from the clubs first 4th Dan student. Congratulations Eoin 🥋🔴🔴🔴🔴

Congratulations to Niall & Roger who successfully passed their 3rd Dan Black belts last night. Niall & Roger have been with us for a long time and after many attempts by me to try and push them into a grading, I finally gave up and brought the grading panel to them! 😂 Let’s just say they were both very stubborn and reluctant to ever grade again, instead just enjoying their karate. However as an instructor it’s great to see them move through the belts, especially when they are so clearly knowledgeable and deserving of that grade. Well done guys - massive congratulations. Thanks to Chris for coming down to assess them. Our 3rd Dan syllabus is tough and contains Kihon - kicking and punching Kata & real world application Kumite - sport and self defence Randori Ground work Throwing Power generation Escape and control.

⭐️ C H I L D R E N S 🥋 C L A S S E S ⭐️ Fitness - Self defence - Confidence - Fun. Childens Karate Covers: ✅ Striking - Power Generation & Padwork ✅ Throws & Takedowns ✅ Self- Defence Scenarios ✅ Sport Sparring ✅ Competition work ✅ Tegumi Drills & Grappling. ✅ Kata (pattern work with realistic application). All this while improving their FITNESS & CONFIDENCE. Pop in for 2 FREE Classes All fitness levels and ages (6+) welcome! 💻 www.sskarate.org Message us for more info ℹ️ (Teens & Adult classes available). #warrington #Penketh #Greatsankey #urmston #manchester

A D U L T 🥋 C L A S S E S 🥋 Don’t be bored at the gym 🏋️‍♀️ Get fit having fun 🤩 Adult Karate Covers: ✅ Striking - Power Generation & Padwork ✅ Throws & Takedowns ✅ Self- Defence Scenarios ✅ Sport Sparring ✅ Joint Locks & Point Work ✅ Tegumi Drills & Grappling. ✅ Kata (pattern work with realistic application). All this while improving your FITNESS & MOBILITY. Grab a friend and pop in for 2 FREE Classes All fitness levels and ages welcome! 💻 www.sskarate.org Message us for more info ℹ️ #warrington #penketh #greatsankey #urmston #manchester

🏆 WUKF European Champions Cup 2022 🏆 Over the weekend we had some excellent performances from the dynamic duo of Dan and Daisy in Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴 Daisy stormed through the rounds to take silvers in both Kata and Kumite 🥈🥈 After some impressive katas and couple of tough fights Dan fell just short of the medals on this occasion. A massive thank you is due to Paula and Jen Trow for coaching on the day 👊

🥋 Massive congratulations to SSK instructor Paula Trow on achieving her 3rd Dan 🥋 Paula is an integral part of our association - teaching in Marple, training in Urmston, refereeing at international competitions, coaching newbies through their first local comps and more recently doing the competition admin (Sorry Paula! I’ll make Ste do it next time! 😂) A well deserved 3rd Dan 👊

Kanzen International Open - Dundee Great to be back to competition karate. #wukf #karate #warrington #urmston #chorley #marple

Yesterday the dynamic duo of Daisy and Dan took to the mats at the EKA Open in Birchwood 👊 Both taking to the mats for the first time this year, they put on excellent performances in both Kata and Kumite 🥋 Daisy McAndrew - Kata Gold 🥇and Kumite Silver 🥈 Daniel Trow - Kata Gold 🥇

🥋 Start your journey to Black Belt 🥋 Spaces now available for new starters. #warrington #urmston #marple #chorley #widness #greatsankey #penketh

🏆 WUKF European Champions Cup 2021 🏆 A small number of squad members travelled to Cluj Napoca at the weekend to compete in the WUKF European Champions Cup. As usual a very strong showing from our small group of seasoned competitors. 4 competitors 🥇3 Golds🥇 🥈 1 Silver 🥈 🥉 3 Bronze 🥉

🥋Dan Grading Success🥋 We’re immensely proud to announce our new black belts. Congratulations to Bana, Leen, Adi, Jenson, Milly, Stu and Daisy on successfully passing 1st Dan black belt. Congratulations to George, Ethan, Jake, Mike, Grace and Dani on successfully passing 2nd Dan Black Belts. With the uncertainty that Covid has brought into the mix, this year was possibly the toughest year to attempt Dan grading. The students had every excuse to lose motivation, let standards slip and just try again for next year but in true karate spirit they persevered. Training in their livings rooms over zoom in lockdowns, getting back into the dojo when and wherever they could and putting the hard work in. As instructors we’re really proud of all of them. Last but not least, a big thank you to all the grading partners who have given their time over the last few months and grading day yesterday.

Massive good luck to everyone grading this weekend 👊 Especially those attempting their black belts tomorrow in our first post covid Dan grading🥋

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kanzen Cup 2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Joel Eccleston 🥇

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kanzen Cup 2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Daisy McAndrew 🥇

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kanzen Cup 2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Daniel Trow 🥈

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kanzen Cup 2021 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Joel Eccleston 🥇

🏆 Kanzen Cup International Open - Dundee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 • A successful trip to Scotland this weekend for our small but strong squad 💪🏼 4 competitors - 5 golds and 2 silvers. Lots of positives to take from the day along with some areas for improvement • A special mention goes to Daisy McAndrew, who blitzed through every category she entered coming away with 3 golds in Kata, Sanbon and ippon kumite 🥇🥇🥇

Happy 18th birthday to squad member Hannah 🥳 • Hope you’ve had a lovely day 🤩

🏆AMA Northern Open🏆 Yesterday some of the squad got back on the mats at the AMA Northern Open comp in Bury. Excellent performances all round with some clear improvements made from last months competition 📈 The small squad of 6 came back with: 🥇5 Gold 🥈4 Silver 🥉3 Bronze A special mention goes to Paddy Furey, who won his first medal in the boy 8-9yrs Kumite. He fought his way through a couple of tough rounds before narrowly losing out in the semi final 👊🔥

🇬🇧GB Open 🇬🇧 📍Birmingham After an 18 month break due to covid, a small but strong squad stepped onto the tatami for the GB Open Championships at the weekend. We had a nice mixed bag of complete newbies, seasoned competitors that found themselves at the bottom of new age groups and….a senior who just won’t quit! As a squad they came away with a credible 2 x gold🥇🥇 3 x silver 🥈🥈🥈 Lots of positives to take from the day, along with lots to work on. Most importantly it was just nice to see everyone back enjoying themselves!

The feels now the squad have been back on the mats after an 18 month covid break 🤩

Happy 17th Birthday to squad member Conall 🎉 • We can’t wait to see you back on the mat soon 🥊

Congratulations to all who graded at our Urmston club at the weekend 🥋 . It was great to see such a high standard of karate on display from all involved 👊

Congratulations to all who graded at our Great Sankey club yesterday evening 🥋 • From solid basics all the way through to self defence and takedowns, it was great to see such a high standard of karate on display from all involved 👊

Sweaty happy faces is what we like to see 💪🏼☀️ Feels great to be getting back to it!

💭 daydreaming of our return to the tatami 💭

Happy 15th Birthday to our squad member Joel 🎉 • We hope you have an amazing day and we’ll see you later in the week at club for a special birthday fitness set 💪🏼🥳

Happy 15th Birthday to our squad member Max!! 🎉 • We hope you have an awesome day and we can’t wait to see your face back at club really soon 💪🏼

Happy 13th Birthday to squad member Dan 🥳 We hope you have a brilliant day and we can’t wait to see you back at club soon! 👊🏻

Patiently waiting for Bozza to let us fight again 🥱

Happy 13th Birthday to our squad member Daisy 🥳 • We hope you have a lovely day and we can’t wait to see you in person back at club post lockdown 🖤

Tier 4 forces the majority of our clubs to close once again 👊 • Zoom classes are back in action - visit sskarate.org/tier4 for more details📱

It’s Christmaaaassssssss🎅🏼🎄

Patiently waiting to get back on the tatami...

Classes are on their way back 💪 • Check the website for the latest on all SSK clubs 👊

Zoom classes tonight: Chris at 6pm and Steve at 7pm 📱 • Email: sskarateassociation@gmail.com or cskcinfo@googlemail.com for meeting details 👍

Happy 50th Birthday to our Marple Karate Club instructor Paula 🥳 • We hope you have a wonderful day 🎁🎈🎉 we’ll see you bright and early for training in the morning 😉

Massive congratulations to Steve on his promotion to 7th dan 🎉 Visit the website to read more about it and see some more nostalgic photos of Ste (with hair!!🤩) Special thank you to the Eccleston and McAndrew clans for organising balloons and cupcakes for the small covid safe presentation 🎈🧁 www.sskarate.org/7th-dan-promotion

First one to guess which SSK instructor this is, gets a potato 🥔 #ifyouknowyouknow 🥔

It was great to see some faces for the first time post-lockdown tonight and even some new faces giving it a go 🤩 • Classes at Hartford Community Centre on Fridays and Sundays 👍 • Send us a message or get in touch on www.sskarate.org for more info 🥋

It feels great to be back in the Great Sankey & Penketh area 🤩 • Classes at Penketh Youth Centre Thursdays and Sundays 👍

We can’t wait to get back on the mats 🥺

Best of luck to all our students picking up their A-level results this morning 🤞 • We hope everything has worked out for you regarding your planned next steps 👨‍🎓 • But if it hasn’t, please remember there are always other options to get you where you want to be 👍

Thursday nights are back 😌

First day back for our Urmston Club this Afternoon! 🥋 • Massive thank you to our amazing members who took the new safety measures fully onboard. Queued entry/exit doors, hand sanitiser stations on the way in and out, marked out training areas and social distancing guidelines followed at all times 👍

Someone’s excited to be back 🤩

Great Sankey club’s first day back today 👊 • Many thanks to our members for using the queued entry/exit set up, using the hand sanitisers provided and keeping to social distancing guidelines 👍

We’re back 😎

New website. Link in the bio 😎

The countdown is on for SSK clubs reopening 🤩 • All instructors have completed the World Health Organisations “Infection Prevention and Control for Covid-19” course and will have special measures in place to ensure your return to club is as safe as possible 😌 • If you have any questions or worries, please get in touch with your club instructor 🥋

Brilliant squad training session over zoom yesterday! 💪🏼 • Don’t forget, SSK have zoom training sessions Monday, Wednesday and Friday for anyone who’s a member of an SSK club! 🥋 • Lets see how many of us we can get into the Kumite session with Chris Robinson tonight 🥊 • Details on the Facebook group “SSK: Online Training”

Pinan Kata application. Why we use kata and how to interpret them to extract self-defence techniques. Pinan drills in the SSK syllabus include. • ✅ Throws ✅ Joint Locks ✅ Strangles ✅ Close range striking ✅ Escapes ✅ Pressure points

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿EKA Open 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 • Very proud of our small but strong squad today competing in Leigh. Massive improvements on performances from previous weeks and brilliant to see some newbies entering the fold 🥊

🇬🇧 AMA International 2020 🇬🇧 • This weekend our squad rounded off a solid month of competitions with a 2 day international in Sheffield. This served as a brilliant marker to see where we’re at for the upcoming WUKF World Championships and allows us to pinpoint areas to improve over the coming months 📈

“Don’t aspire to be the best on the team, aspire to be the best for the team” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #together #wukf

Successful couple of weekends for the squad at FEKO and the GB open series🥇🏆 • Getting that all important mat time in 📈

Massive well done to our small squad down at the Welsh League today 🥊 • Excellent start to the season saw us pick up 5 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze between the 4 competitors 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Morson Group who kindly donated to the SSK squad as part of their 50 days of giving 🌟 • The funds were used to cover entry fees for our teams recent trip to the European Cup in Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴 • This year has been a year of unprecedented success for the squad. In 2019 we have 2 new WUKF World Champions, 4 WUKF European Champions and 4 European Cup Champions 🏆 • @morsonsportsnews #wukf #karate #kata #kumite #karateinwarrington #martialsarts #karatekids

K Y U 🥋 G R A D E 🥋S U C C E S S 🌟 Congratulations to everyone who graded yesterday! There was an exceptional standard on display and you should all be very proud of yourselves 🥋 If you have any pictures from the grading please share them below! We’d love to see them 👍🏻

Jennie Trow - European Cup Team Kumite Champion 🏆🥇 • Correcting some mistakes from individuals, Jen fought brilliantly leading the team to gold 🥇 • #youcansitdown 😉 #wukf #wukf2019 #kata #kumite #karate

Jennie Trow - European Cup Kumite Bronze Medallist 🥉 • Brilliant end to a year of injury for Jennie, but a great sign of what is to come next year 👊🏻 • #wukf #karate #kata #kumite

Joel Eccleston - European Cup Kumite Champion 🥇 • Picking up his first international double gold 👊🏻 • #karate #kata #kumite #wukf #wukf2019 #wukf2019europeanscupromania

Joel Eccleston - European Cup Kata Champion 2019 🥇 • Ending the year as World, European and European cup Champion in his age group 👊🏻 #wukf #kata #kumite #karate

Dan Trow - European Cup Kata Bronze Medallist 2019 🥉 • Nice end to a successful 2019 for Dan 💪🏼 #wukf #kata #kumite #karate

Daisy McAndrew - European Cup Kata Champion 2019 🥇 • First international gold for Daisy, made even sweeter by beating the European Champion who pipped her to the title in Denmark a few months ago 🥋#healthyrivalry • #wukf #kata #kumite #karate

Good luck to Dan and Daisy who compete in the European Cup today in Romania 🇷🇴 • #wukf #karate #kata #kumite #europeancup #romania #clujnapoca

Congratulations to our competition squad who at the weekend competed in both UWK Nationals and the Welsh karate league coming home with 6 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze 🏆 • Jennie Trow 🥇🥇🥉 Joel Eccleston 🥇🥈 Dani Shaw 🥈🥉 Dan Trow 🥇 Daisy McAndrew 🥉 Conall Sheehy 🥇🥇 Grace Clarke • Big thank you to Mark and Paula for coaching on the day! • Next up for the squad is the European Cup in Romania in December 🇷🇴

Job done 🥇🥈🥉...get the social media posts ready 📱😂 #wukf2019

It’s important when coaching to look at things from many different angles 🤓 • Pop a kid on your shoulder and you’ll see what the tall refs see 🤷‍♂️

The calm before the storm 🌪 #wukf2019

We are immensely proud of our squad of 7 this weekend taking 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze medals at the 2019 WUKF European Championships in Odense Denmark. • 🥇 WUKF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS 🥇 Joanne Nelson Senior Open Kata Joanne Nelson Senior Shitoryu Kata Joel Eccleston Mini Cadet Shitoryu Kata Dominic Lewis Junior Shitoryu Kata • 🥈EUROPEAN SILVER MEDALISTS 🥈 Daisy McAndrew 11yrs Kata Joel Eccleston Mini Cadet Kumite Daniel Trow 11yrs Kumite Dominic Lewis Senior Shitoryu Kata • 🥉 EUROPEAN BRONZE MEDALISTS 🥉 Daniel Trow 11yrs Kata Conall Sheehy Cadet Shitoryu kata Joanne Nelson Senior Ippon Kumite Dominic Lewis Junior Open Kata Max Naylor Mini Cadet Kumite Conall Cadet Kumite • Massive thank you to our SSK family of coaching staff, competitors, instructors, parents and logistics for all the support. • It’s an absolute pleasure to see the months and years of hard work pay off on the mats. #wukf #warrington #manchester #karate #denmark2019 #wukf2019 #karate

Excellent sweep from the clinch by @joanne.faolan on her way to securing the gold at AKA Invitational a couple of weeks ago 🥇 #wukf #karate #kumite #ippon #leadingfromthefront #kumiteglobal

Excellent day for our squad at the AKA Invitational yesterday 🇬🇧 • This serves as the last bit of mat time for them before they head to the WUKF European Championships in Denmark next month 🇩🇰 • They won 13 medals between the 7 of them (Holly did not want to be part of the final photo shoot!!😂) 🥇🥈🥉

Jo 🥇🥈 • Well done coach. Leading from the front as usual. Warming up for Denmark.

Max 🥈🥉 • Starting to reap the benefits of his hard work in kata 💪🏼 and getting stronger in kumite - closer and closer to the medals 🥊

Daisy 🥇🥉 • Improving in ability and attitude every time she hits the mats 🔥

Grace 🥈🥉🥉 • Brilliant performances across the board 💪🏼 lot more to come from this girl this season 🔥 #watchthisspace

Joel 🥇🥇🥇🥉 • Cleaning up with 3 individual golds and a team bronze 💪🏼

Conall with his first ever individual gold medal in U16 kata 🥇 • Long time coming, but well worth the wait! #consistencyiskey • He also took a Silver in Open kata 🥈 and a bronze in U16 kumite 🥉against some top class Welsh fighters

Excellent start the season for our squad today down at the Welsh Karate League 🤙🏼 • Lots of personal targets hit 🎯 lots of medals 🥇🥈🥉and some excellent displays of teamwork and sportsmanship 🏆 • Back to work - squad Training this Saturday 💪🏼

Last bits of prep for the squad today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Season starts this weekend 🥋🥊🤙🏼 • Lots of hard work...and a cool down of handshake creating 😂🤙🏼 #hello

Happy Birthday to our squad member Conall 🎁🎉 • Hope you have a brilliant day at training...only 4 hours to get through 😜

Hands up who’s excited for the comp season to kick off again?! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ • One more week of prep until our squad hit the mats 🥊

Kumite Drills: Hook Kick #warmup #kick #wukf #joscheesygrin #karate #warrington #urmston

#together 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 • When coach doesn’t want to walk the opening ceremony so the next closest bald guy has to take the reins 😜 #wukf2019 #wukf #karate #kata #kumite #worldchampionships #slovakia

NOC 2019 🥋 • Joel, Con, Max - team 🥇 Joel🥈 Max 🥉 Dom 🥉 • A very busy, chaotic comp with lots of rule amendments and corners cut to ensure it didn’t run late. The squad dealt amazingly with the cards they were dealt and know what they need to work on for the start of the 19/20 season in September 👊🏻

What a week, what a squad 👊🏻 • We now look to build towards the Europeans in October #strongertogether 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 • #wukf2019

Joanne Nelson - WUKF World Champion 🥇 Ippon kumite 👊🏻 • Winning every fight with an ippon, and only one fight lasting longer than 40secs 💪🏼 definitely not “just a kata girl” anymore! • #wukf2019 #justakatagirl #karate #kata #kumite #sskengland #ippon

Joanne Nelson - WUKF World Silver Medallist - Kata 🥈 • Excellent result in a notoriously tough category. Again a very close contest between the same top 4 girls 💪🏼 • #wukf2019 #wukf #karate #kata #kumite #shitoryukata #worldchampionships