About the Karate Club
The Karate club was formed by Ian McGill in about 1969. Then, as the club became more established and the style aligned with Shotokan (JKA/KUGB), the resident black belt instructors that followed, included: Stan, Jim, Mark, Jan, Roger, Barry, Gareth and others.
In 1969, there was no sports hall and training took place in the evenings, in different food serveries (e.g. Materials Science, South Building). Then in about 1974, a Sports Hall was built and training moved to that hall. Then later when the Sports Pavilion was constructed some training took place there (when the Sports Hall was used for exams/other big events).
Year 1987: The club sent 14 members to participate in a wide range of events at the first British Student Karate Championships (Crystal Palace, London). Our Kumite 5-man A-Team (Dave Cook, Rich Anderson, Kev Leivers, Graig Green, Gareth Rowe) achieved the BUSF silver medal, defeating some of the strongest university clubs including teams from Bristol, London and Cambridge. A total of 38 teams participated at different events and Bath entered most of them, achieving 2nd or 3rd place in many of them.
Agenda
1.15pm: Registration (Chancellors' Building)
2.00pm: Talk by Professor Stan Kolaczkowski (Lecture theatre in the Chancellors' Building)
3.00pm: Reception with drinks and nibbles (Chancellors' Building)
3.30pm: Move to Founders Hall (previously Sports Hall)
3.45pm: Short demonstration of Karate and group photo
5.00pm: End of event