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Nakama — companionsForty years, read as a scroll.
The scroll of Hizashikan.
Some of these photographs are older than most of our students. All of them are family.
1984 – 1990s
Budokan du Maroc · Casablanca
1984
The Budokan du Maroc old crew — where everything began.
1980s
Shihan Abderrahman Bahaddou — the teacher behind the teacher.
2000s – 2010s
A dojo takes root in Coventry
2000s
The Hizashikan first crew — Coventry's founding members.
2010s
Sometimes we need a push to fly.
2010s
Technique, when it finally flows, looks like nothing at all.
2015 – 2020
Children, seminars and gradings
2015
The junior class, lined up and ready.
2018
Seminar day — a full mat and a visiting teacher.
2019
A grading in progress — years of Saturdays, shown in ten minutes.
2020 – today
The Wyken years
2020
Distanced, masked, and still training.
Today
The Wyken Community Centre Hall — our home in Coventry.
Every Saturday
One day for you, and another against you.