The club has members with a wide range of abilities, from beginner to black belt.
Children are increasingly attracted to Karate and the club has members as young as five. Current members also include families who> have trained together for many years.
In addition to normal training, students of the club also participate in association gradings, courses and competitions throughout the year. Competitions are designed for all grades and ages and provide members an opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Karate training sessions are once a week on Sunday Morning/Afternoon.
The club’s instructor is Derek Brogie (6th Dan), who started the TISKA Rugby Shotokan Karate club in 1997 at the Ken Marriott Leisure Centre, Bruce Williams Way, Rugby CV22 5LJ.
This Leisure Centre was closed in 2013, demolished and a new Leisure Centre called
QUEENS DIAMOND JUBILEE LEISURE CENTRE built on the same site.
Training is currently held in a room called ‘STUDIO’ [ Left at the top of the stairs ] at the
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 a 9th 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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