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Club Profile (page 2 of 3)
Along with a few friends Dudley left the YMCA club and on not finding another Shotokan club to train at, set up his own club in Norton Church Hall, Sheffield. With the help of Sensei Derek Langham in the early years, the club grew, using various halls around Sheffield finally settling in Killamarsh Village Hall, which is now Killamarsh Leisure Centre.
Sensei's Derek Langham and Bob Poynton were the first KUGB Senior Instructors to hold courses and gradings at the club. Over the following years, late 1970s through the 1980s all the KUGB Senior Instructors were invited to the club, by Sensei Wheatcroft. The club had the privilege of training with Sensei Sherry, Poynton, O'Neill, Rhodes, Higgins, Langham; a young lad by the name of Frank Brennan came too, with Sensei Sherry.
In the mid 1980s Sensei Wheatcroft moved to Chesterfield; the town was about to open its new prestigious Queens Park Sport Centre, Sensei Wheatcroft, who by then had gained his Shodan in 1985 with the KUGB, established a club there, on the very first day it opened in 1987.
Satori Shotokan Karate Club was born, (Satori, the Japanese word meaning Enlightenment or Ultimate Knowledge) from that time to the present day, all the Senior KUGB Instructors have been regular yearly visitors to the club, along with Sensei Enoeda, (up to his untimely death), Sensei Frank Brennan (now a much respected Senior Instructor and Examiner to the KUGB) and Sensei's Charles Naylor and John Holdsworth.
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