Clonberne Student of the Month

Well done to Clonberne Yellow belts Tracey and Max our proud Clonberne Karate Club Student of the Month winners.

Tuam Friday Student of the Month

Karate Kids Caoimhe and Sander our Friday class medal winners. Well done on a great nights work on Good Friday

Thursday Little Wolves Student of the Month

Congratulations to siblings Abbie, Mary Kate and Ben Collins on their joint awards for student of the Month Little Wolves March. Great work by all.

Clonberne MSKC Champion

Well done to Luke Walsh on his success at the MSKC. 

Luke proudly represented Clonberne Karate Club

Friday Student of the Month

Karate Family, Ciara and Rian Murray the Student of the Month winners for Friday class. Well done

A new Shodan for Faolchu Karate

Congratulations to Kieron Friel on passing his Shodan under Shihan Kagawa

Little Wolves Medal winners

Karate Kids Fionn Mitchell and Tudor Scurty worked very hard to get their Student of the Month medals.

Good work boys.

Master Class

Master Harry Thompson visited Foalchu Dojo for the first in a series of ground work and MMA basics training seminars with our adults class.

A technical but also lighthearted 90 minutes whizzed by with a keen group as we wrestled and tried out a series of locks and holds.

We keenly await our next session with anticipation 

Dunmore Student of the Month

Well done to our Student of the Month medal winners in Dunmore Karate Club.

Saoirse Corless and Peter Ryan

Ava Dunne and Mervyn Burke.

Keep up the good work.

Teddy St. Patrick

Karate Teddy Enjoying his first ever St Patrick's Day.

You can keep up with the Karate Teddies and their adventures on Facebook 'Teddy Faolchu', Instagram 'Karate Teddies' and Snapchat!

St Patrick's Day Festivities

St Patrick's Day in Galway is always fantastic with all our karate kids parading in Tuam and Dunmore. A big thanks to all who marched, supported and cheered along the way.

February Little Wolves Student of the Month

Jay Flaherty and Gerard Teahon

Sisters Ailish and Catriona Harper

Well done and keep up the good work.

Tuam Karate Student of the Month

Karate kids in Tuam medal winners Nathan Kilmartin and Jasmine Flaherty

Mellisa Roche. Well done keep the good work.

Dunmore Karate Student of the Month

Dunmore Karate kids Megan and Niamh from the senior children's class.

Mikey and Kyle from our Dunmore Little Wolves.

Well done to our medal winners

Teddy Adventures

Faolchu Karate Teddies have been having an amazing time in their adventures around Galway.

A big thanks to all the children and families that have hosted and entertained them on their adventures.

Kilkerrin Karate Student of the Month

Well done Darragh Kilmartin and Sean Gannon our Kilkerrin Student of the Month Winners in Kilkerrin Karate Club.

Great Work lads.

Clonberne Karate Student of the Month

Holly and Niamh. Clonberne Karate Kids February Medal winners.

Thursday February Little Wolves

Twins Rory and Brian Morgan the senior Little Wolves.

 Jayden our beginners Little Wolves winner.

Well done and keep up the good work.

Karate's Toughest Muckers

A group of 10 tough adventurers from Tuam Faolchu Karate club put on a brave face and their best foot forward when they took on The Lough Key Forest Park Toughest Muckers Adventure Race.

The race is designed by the Fire Department and incorporates obstacles from Ireland's Fittest Families along with rivers, mud holes and terrifying climbs.

Our brave team spirit was made up of two husband and wife teams and also both the youngest and oldest competitors of the event. Well done to everyone who all successfully competed the course.

Pictured 

L-R Photo 1: Colin Friel, Regan Warde, Dominik Rogalski, PJ Ferry, Sharon Ferry, Liam Brandon, Rebecca Gilcrest, Ciaran Kelly, Malcolm Murphy, Marie Murphy

L-R Photo 2: Liam Brandon, Colin Friel, Sharon Ferry, Malcolm Murphy, Dominik Rogalski, Marie Murphy, Rebecca Gilcrest, Ciaran Kelly, PJ Ferry, Regan Warde.

Sensei Matt Price Visits Tuam

Faolchú Karate Club had the pleasure of hosting Sensei Matt Price in Tuam, Co. Galway.

Sensei Price makes an annual visit to The West Coast of Ireland, each year bringing current and new training methods and information from England, Japan and the top elite WKF events worldwide.

There where 4 training sessions across the weekend. Saturday was an intensive 4 hour session which was split into a morning kata session and afternoon kumite drills.

Empi and the rarely taught Chinte where the focal points of our kata session, along with coaching on how to present kata in a confident and relaxed manner.

The advanced kumite session was a technically based session where we ran drills and built up scoring profiles. The floor was open to questions and during a topically based afternoon we explored how to fight various opponents like how taller and heavier fighters can be bested and how to deal with a light agile fighter.

Sunday had three 1 hour sessions where classes where divided by age and grade, with the youngest students from 4 years old.

Children participated in fun filled activities and drills where they developed speed and good karate technique, all in a light hearted environment. Both students and parents praised Sensei Matts training methods and warm personality. 

Next years session has already been booked!