TISKA Aylesbury Shotokan Karate School welcomes children from the age of 4 years old, and encourages their parents to join too! As well as learning a traditional martial art, there are many benefits that we strive for our students to achieve:
Karate is taught in three aspects:
Each of these aspects make up your grading syllabus, and before being ready to grade for your next belt, we will ensure that you are confident in all of these areas. It takes practice and dedication, but as you progress through the belt system, you will find your abilities and confidence increasing.
Mr Andrew Sebley (5th Dan) has been practising the art of karate since 2001, when he joined TISKA Beaconsfield school. He achieved Shodan grade (black belt) in November 2005 and continues training under the guidance of TISKA Chief Instructor Shihan Sahota himself.
As well as running the Aylesbury school, Mr Sebley also runs Staines, Surbiton & Ascot schools. He is also a support instructor for Shihan Sahota at Chalfont St Peter school.
Mr Sebley also competes regularly in the TISKA National Championships. On several occasions he has won first, second and third place trophies in kumite, kata and team kata events.
All TISKA instructors are fully insured and enhanced DBS checked.
Gusharan Sahota
Gursharan Sahota was born in Kenya, East Africa but moved to the UK at the age of 12. He took up Karate at the age of 14 in the local Bedford club and was awarded black belt 1st dan (shodan) four years later.
Now an 8th Dan, Gursharan has competed in a multitude of kata and kumite events, many at national and international level. But the most significant event in his career was the visit he made in 1984 to Japan. There, he fulfilled a great ambition by training in a Japanese dojo under the instruction of Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa.
This experience proved to be a turning point for Gursharan. On his return to England, he realised the trip had been the inspiration he needed to dedicate his future to training and teaching karate as a way of life.
Gursharan’s first club was opened in Luton/Dunstable in 1981 and this is now the association’s hombu (HQ). Having been a teacher of the art for many years, he formed his own association in 1993 – TISKA (The Traditional International Shotokan Karate Association) which is now one of the biggest associations in the UK.
Gursharan’s love of karate has never diminished. He still teaches over 35 classes a week in the UK and regularly takes master classes internationally. All in all, he has brought hundreds of students of all ages up to black belt standard and beyond.
He is also involved in charity work, helping to subsidise trips for surgeons to third world countries to operate on underprivileged children. He has, for many years, funded many projects in India, and is at present helping to fund the building of a new school.
Gursharan lives in Buckinghamshire and is happily married with a son and daughter who already show signs of following in their daddy’s footsteps.
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