The Henry Rice Ishinryu Kickathon

May 2022

My friends at Ishinryu Karate are my number one supporters.  During May they set themselves a ‘kicking’ challenge just for me.

Everyone who joined in promised to do a set number of kicks every day (depending on their ability).  Younger students did 30 kicks a day.  Adult students could chose from 50 or 100 kicks per day based on their fitness and ability.  Naturally, they all did 100 kicks (as did many of the children).

Many submitted videos and pictures onto the special WhatsApp group.  Some of my favourites are shown on this page.

It turns out that Ishinryu have never done anything like this before, so it makes me feel very proud that they did all this just for me.  They raised more than £2,500 on my dedicated kickathon page at JustGiving.

Ishinryu Karate are very special.  In early June I put on my Gi and went to visit the two clubs  that had raised the most money – these being Woodlane and Cranham.  Both clubs made me very welcome and I really enjoyed going there to thank everyone in person.