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IMPORTANT: Temporary shift of premises

We've unfortunately had to move out of the gym we were training at on New North Road, and we've temporarily re-located to Kowhai Intermediate School, just around the corner. Our training times have also had to change for the time......read more »

Growing our club and the Hapkido style in Auckland

Over the last couple of months, James has been asking current members what they would like out of the club and he's had some fantastic feedback. We'll look at running with these ideas over the next few months, but for......read more »

Self Defence through the winter months

The club has been very active through March & April this year with a number of new members joining. We've also seen a few faces from previous years return. Hapkido training provides a fun way to exercise and stretch, and......read more »

All killer, no filler: Lantern Festival 2011

Well done to Jason, Patrick, Scott and John who joined Aaron and James in the Hapkido Demonstration at the Lantern Festival. As there were only two of us in 2010, it's a fantastic mark of how the club has progressed......read more »

End of year grading

The last grading for the year is scheduled for Thursday, November 25 (just a few weeks away now.) It will be a combined whitebelt/yellowbelt grading with four students so far confirmed. Even if you're not grading, we encourage you to......read more »

Successful June Grading

We held our first grading for 2010 last month, with three white belts successfully grading to Yellow belt. Congratulations to Toni, Patrick and Sam - the first of a new crop of students to grade, but hopefully not the last......read more »

Now taking orders for club t-shirts

Impress your friends, promote the club It turns out that one of the stars of this year's intake is Sam Hollis, who put together our club logo at the start of the year, and has now knocked up a t-shirt......read more »

Mid-winter grading - update

While the club instructors may be postponing their own gradings, we thought it was only fair to run a mid-year grading for others in the club that have reached a high level of competence with their respective grade syllabus. Gradings......read more »

Seminar postponed

We we're planning a combined grading and seminar for July this year, but for various reasons, we're going to delay the seminar/grading until later in the year. James, Aaron and Jamie will now be doing their dan gradings together -......read more »

New club logo

If you're reading this, then you've probably also seen the new club logo, now adorning the website. We've been lucky enough to have Sam Hollis, a recent club member, working on this over the last month. He's also put together......read more »

2010 Lantern Festival - update!

We've now successfully given our demonstration at the Lantern Festival. Big crowd, and two guys beating each other up in a field. What more do you want? See some of the photos and commentary on our Facebook page. Kingsland Martial......read more »