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Warners Bay Open Day Sunday Sessions

Shihan Romany is a Fourth degree Black belt in Chitokai and Third degree Black belt in Matayoshi Kobudo, and started karate in 2006 at the age of 12.

Shihan Romany is also a researcher in psychology, and gained a PhD in social psychology from the University of Newcastle in 2020. Since then, Dr. McGuffog has conducted various research projects exploring how different social contexts impact health, such as the mental health of family day care educators, the ethical conduct of Indigenous health research, and social factors that impact eating disorders. Dr McGuffog brings psychology expertise and enthusiasm for inclusivity to our leadership program, particularly in understanding the interaction between mind/body/social in martial arts.

Shihan Romany teaches Kobudo and advanced karate at the Warners Bay dojo, and is also the student liaison officer for the ACKA.

About Shihan Romany’s Sunday sessions:

9:00am-9:45am – Moving Mindfulness

Description: Exploring how martial arts can provide a form of meditation through movement.

Details:

  • Breathing exercises to ground and centre.Exploring the effectiveness of being grounded and using breath through various physical exercises. Discuss how people find these exercises. Highlight that sometimes these methods don’t work for everyone. Ishizen and Hachidoko (traditional Chitokai karate moving meditation sets), and then practical partner drills from the Rock and Water program.

10:00-10:45am – Connection to Self and Others

Description: Understanding your connection to your body and mind, and then also being able to understand how to connect with others.

Details:

  • This is a condensed version of the Women’s Empowerment program. First, focus on body awareness (connecting to the previous class). This is reiterating standing strong, balancing, etc. Simple partner drills from the Rock and Water program that involve both empathy and trust concepts.Connecting to your body and being comfortable, aware, and strong.

  • Move to partner drills from the Rock and Water program and the Womens Empowerment program that involve finding your inner strength.

11:00am-11:45am – Basic Self-Defence

Description: Going over basic self-defence skills, including wrist escapes, blocking, and basic attacks.

Details:

  • Practical escapes from wrist grabs and effective blocking drills.

  • Basic punching, elbows, open hand strikes, kicking on bags.

  • Basic self defence sets against habitual acts of violence against women, from the Hunter Fight Fit program (such as escaping chokes, bear hugs, wrist escapes, collar grab, etc).

12:00-12:45pm – Arnis Workshop

Description: Exploring the fundamentals of a martial arts utilising weapons.

Details:

  • Strikes/Blocks/Counters/Disarms

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