Farewell Bartley Green Dojo, Gone But Never To Be Forgotten
I had the chance to think long and hard about just how I should plan the lesson for what was to be the last Karate lesson held at what for me, was the mecca of my Shotokan journey over the last nearly 50 years. Bartley Green dojo is a school based in the heart of Birmingham; for nearly 45 years it has been a dojo where the art of traditional Shotokan Karate Do has been taught. For decades, it was the main honbu of Sensei Cyril Cummins, 8th Dan. He was the pioneer of Shotokan