A well-established jujitsu club in Bradford has been gaining great success after working in partnership with West Yorkshire Sport to engage workplaces and members of the local community in physical activity.
With the recent backing of the Bradford-based food chain MyLahore, West Yorkshire Sport now aims to engage members of the community to get active throughSportivate funding and have also enrolled staff at MyLahore on a national Active Workplace ChallengeCampaign.
The well-established Karma Jujitsu Club – also a member of the World Jujitsu Federation (WJJF) – has classes to enable training to help people learn self-defense build self-esteem, get fit, learn self-control and discipline, relief stress all the while, implementing important Bushido Code in their life.
Sensei Alam Zeb – also a catering manager at supporting business MyLahore – told The Bradfordian: “This is not just a sport, this is an art. The idea is not to train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to humanity.”
The club also hosts grading, demonstrations and friendly competitions.
Commenting on the importance of staying fit, Halima Khan of West Yorkshire Sportand the Bradford Council Sports Unit said: “West Yorkshire Sport and MyLahoreshavehad a lot of support from the local community, and we would encourage to get other workplaces to join in too.”
All the club donations are put back into the club to enable it to fund improvements in resources.
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