Karate for life
Karate training can give children unique and wonderful health benefits as they grow, forming the basis of a lifetime of enjoyment and healthy habits.
Karate builds cardiovascular fitness, strength and flexibility like most sports. It also particularly builds perfect body awareness and control, precision in movement, and speed and strength.
Help your child improve well-being and self-esteem. As a traditional art, the focus is on respect for oneself, one’s peers and one’s teachers, discipline, and rigorous self-examination and improvement.
Expressions of interest www.otagokarate.co.nz or 0210-45-45-95.
A great opportunity for budding cricketers
Personal coaching from someone who has outstanding international cricketing experience is a fantastic opportunity for all budding cricketers.
What’s more, that expert mentoring and assistance is available on the local Otago scene with Billy Ibadulla.
Billy Ibadulla has extensive past cricket experience that includes playing test cricket for Pakistan and 16 years playing professional cricket for Warwickshire in English county cricket.
Billy Ibadulla has used his qualification of M.C.C. (Lords, London) advanced coaching certificate (qualified to teach and coach all aspects of the game to an advanced standard) and years of professional cricketing experience in coaching roles throughout the world. On the local scene he’s helped some of New Zealand’s best players, most notably Glen Turner, on their way to success.
At Billy Ibadulla’s School of Cricket Excellence summer cricket development programmes, he offers young cricketers the benefit of his skill and many years of experience as an international cricketer and professional coach.
Beginners are given pinpoint and confidence-boosting tuition under his personal tutoring, as they prepare for the upcoming season and beyond.
Kids’ tennis
Four to 8-year-olds, half court tennis.
This exciting coaching programme, which has been proven throughout the world, is now here in Dunedin.
There are a limited number of spaces available, so be in early to give your child the opportunity to have great fun and develop coordination skills at a very early age.
Starts Monday 12 October, Edgar Centre, $2 weekly door charge applies. Four players per group, times 3.45pm to 4.20pm and 4.25pm to 5pm, week commencing Monday 12 October, term four. Eight 35-minute lessons over seven weeks, cost $50 each.
Phone 03-466 – 7685, email tennisplus@helloworld.com.
