JKS Exmoor Karate Club

29/04/2026

A Fabulous group shot from Sundays black and brown belt training. Feel free to tag yourself!

19/04/2026

Memories 😁 that was a fun time!!

11/04/2026

October 2004 - Asai Sensei 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️ can’t believe this was 22yrs ago!! I look so young!! 😁

13/03/2026

Proud members of JKS England 🙇‍♂️

13/03/2026

Barry came to visit this evening - 84yrs young - he thinks he may have given up his training but karate never leaves you..... the pauses between training just get a little longer.
Osu Barry! Your budo spirit is an inspiration 🙇‍♂️

12/03/2026

Can’t believe this was 26 years ago!!! JKA Honbu 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️ I think I was dyeing my hair back then 😁

07/03/2026

Koji Arimoto sensei - sensational! Arigatō gozaimasu 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

07/03/2026

Yesterday, members of JKS Exmoor were fortunate enough to train with Arimoto Sensei (4 x WKF World Champion and JKS Honbu Instructor).
A huge thank you to Bristol Karate Academy for the invitation and to JKS England for making these opportunities possible 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

19/02/2026

You know you’re obsessed with karate-do when your daily quiz has kata names!!😁 Osu!!

Enpi / Empi 🤷‍♂️

The short answer is that my Nihongo Sensei says either is acceptable. I have old karate textbooks that have both spellings but I prefer empi.

The Japanese spelling is 燕飛 or えんぴ or エンピ

I don't think there's any official English spelling, but Japanese people will say it with lips closed on the consonant sound so I use "m". This is in line with the Traditional Hepburn system.

The character "ん" or "ン" is often translated as "n" though, despite being pronounced differently depending on what follows it. People who favour Modern Hepburn would do this. I think most people don't give it that much thought though 😂

05/02/2026

JKS England Course - January 2026 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

31/12/2025

28/12/2025

In 1979 my older brother Trevor took me to my first karate lesson. We took this picture today, 46 years on. Without him, I wouldn’t be where I am today. JKS and JKA 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️