Author Archives for Simon Melhuish

Martial arts coach demonstrating a take-down technique on another coach to large group of children

Our New Grappling Classes

September 27, 2019 10:10 am Published by Comments Off on Our New Grappling Classes

We recently welcomed new instructor Bruno Yukio to Foundation as our grappling coach. His role will see him work with our Junior and Adult students every Tuesday.


Team Mouko

June 30, 2019 11:19 am Published by Comments Off on Team Mouko

This year we’re challenging all our students to get involved in our summer or fun, fitness and fundraising!


Developing Our Students

May 15, 2019 12:01 pm Published by Comments Off on Developing Our Students

Learn about the processes we use at Foundation to help our students develop and grow as martial artists.


How we built our curriculum

September 17, 2017 9:10 am Published by Leave your thoughts

We’ve spent the past year at Foundation developing our core curriculum. It’s a difficult process, we’ve scrapped and restarted more times than we can count, trying to make it work and find a methodology that made sense.


Kenko (The Healthy Dojo)

May 7, 2017 9:12 am Published by Leave your thoughts

All of our values are vital to us and help to play a huge part in what we do and how we do it. One that is especially important to us (considering the nature of what we do) is kenko, which means health.


Foundation Code

March 21, 2017 9:13 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Last year I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Picademy, a course that helps educators see the scope of teaching with Raspberry Pi.


Grading & Progression

March 12, 2017 9:15 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Switching from weekly payment to monthly membership was a big change, we’ve been taking weekly payments since we started on this journey way back in June of 2013 but it was necessary to help move the club forward.


Healthy Halloween

October 4, 2016 11:53 am Published by Comments Off on Healthy Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner and we know how much kids look forward to getting dressed up and heading out trick or treating.


Kokoro

September 8, 2016 11:57 am Published by Comments Off on Kokoro

The Japanese word kokoro is pretty special. It has no direct English translation and it describes an almost abstract concept: Heart, mind, spirit — not as things but as a feeling.