Welcome to Wards Karate-Do, we are a West Norfolk based Karate organisation that runs multiple Karate clubs in and around Kings Lynn & Downham Market for children and adults. Downham Market Karate Club & Wimbotsham Karate Club, which is based at Wimbotsham Village Hall on a Sunday morning & Tuesday evening, and Downham Market College on a Monday evening. Our Wiggenhall & Magdalen Karate Club is based at Magdalen Village Hall and runs on a Wednesday evening. All our clubs and events are licensed and insured by the West Norfolk & Fenland Karate Association. Wards Karate-Do offers not only traditional Karate training (Karate Do & Karate Jutsu), but also self defence and fitness training. We also offer Karate training to those with special educational and physical needs.

Our main goal as an organisation is to provide high quality Karate classes that are small and friendly, covering Karate, self defence and fitness training utilising traditional styles of Karate, largely Shotokan Karate and taking influence from Okinawan-te and other traditional styles. Our training combines Karate Do and Karate Jutsu with elements of fitness, stretching and meditation. We also offer to all students inclusive membership with the West Norfolk & Fenland Karate Association and access to additional training and courses covering topics from advanced Kata bunkai, Karate Jutsu and Kobudo (weaponry) through to meditation and inner-spiritual development. The Wards Karate-Do chief instructor is Sensei Simon Ward (4th Dan) with around 20 years experience of Karate and other martial arts studied at various organisations throughout the UK.

We offer Karate classes for children as young as 5 with adult classes that have no upper age limit (please check the class timetable for further information). We welcome students from all social backgrounds and ethnic origins, students who attend other Karate clubs are also all welcome to come and train with us. All we ask is that you are willing to try and to push yourself to reach new limits, there is no achievement through not trying! Please note that all classes are conducted in English with some Japanese terminology, we at present have no ability to provide training in other languages.

Prices for classes work out from as little as £3 per session, payable monthly by standing order, private lessons start from as little as £10 per hour. If you want to try before committing to regular weekly classes then why not come along to one of our public classes or contact us regarding private lessons. We offer all beginners to our public classes a 4-week introductory course for a fixed price of £15 (payable on week 2). If you have questions, or for further information please check the various sections on this website, phone us on 07784 295481 or use the contact us page to send us a message.

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Competitions 2013

2013 is the year, it is going to be one of the biggest years for national and European Karate competitions with not only 3 different national competitions (AMA Open, FEKO Open, EKA Open) all happening in and around the midlands, but Sheffield will be hosting the WUKF Junior & Senior European championships. The West Norfolk Karate Association has been given the opportunity to put in a national team of juniors and adults, to not only represent the association and compete at the 3 national events but also attend the European championships. This would be excellent if the association (comprising mainly of people from the West Norfolk region) could compete. WKD students will be invited to attend a try-out/selections training session in order to qualify for a place on the team.

Also we still have our usual local events and again WKD students will be permitted to attend/compete in the Peterborough & Boston series and the Norfolk Open for both Kata and Kumite.

Further details about the competitions will be posted shortly, but if anyone is interested in the national and European events or the local events, please let me know sooner rather than later. We need to submit confirmation that the association will enter a team (although final team selections are not required at this time) by the end of October 2012, so obviously this doesn’t leave long, to think about, and see about raising funds to cover the extra costs. I am hoping that we could attract some good will sponsorship from a couple of local companies to help ease the financial extra costs that the club and association would endure through participating in the event, rather than the full cost being passed through to the competitors.

I am sure that many of you will make the team as we have some excellent hidden talent among you all, even from some of the beginners. Hopefully this mammoth challenge will be something you would be interested in and would be up for. It will require lots of hard work and dedication. Representing the UK at a European event is not an easy task.