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"Train hard, fight smart, pain is temporary, pride is forever."
The Karate
Heba started practicing martial arts from an early age, but she only began to fully understand them in her teens, when she began to realise that it’s not like playing a sport, but learning important life lessons that can be applied in day-to-day reality. “It changed my life.”
She believes in appreciating karate as a whole, encompassing all its elements;
“Often some aspects of karate are ignored when the focus is on competition for example, but a Karateka is only a true karateka when they are knowledgeable of all the martial art’s aspects and only then do they understand Karate....then the fun begins!”
Heba has an impressive list of karate accolades to her name. She joined Karate Shinboku Kai as a second dan in karate. She has subsequently won multiple national championships in karate, aikido and judo, competed in the Karate World Championships 2011 and earned second place at the Karate European Championships in the same year.
She also received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional Achievement at Nottingham University, where she captained the student squad and training to be a judge at FEKO.
Heba has been teaching for more than 4 years and regularly instructs in England and Egypt and has had the privilege of training with some of the greatest martial artists in the world, including Kanzawa Sensei, chief instructor and president of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, and she also trained in Aikido with Kazua Chiba, who himself trained under the founder of Aikido and brought the discipline to Europe.
She is passionate about helping students tailor their learning to acquire karate techniques that best suit them as individuals. “I’m tiny, so I understand that what works for one person might not be the best approach for another, say of a smaller or larger stature!” Karate offers a huge variety of skills and techniques. Sensing the nuances in karate styles and learning how to mould it to your specific abilities is an important part of understanding the art.
Outside the dojo
Having studied Electronics and Communications engineering at King’s and then Nottingham, Heba now works as an Electronic engineering consultant.
Why King’s?
“KSK demands standards, you know if you make black belt you’ve earned it”.
Heba also appreciates the balance King’s offers between traditional karate and techniques with real life application.
“It’s one of the few clubs I’ve found in England that offers such a well-rounded karate programme.”
The Karate
Heba started practicing martial arts from an early age, but she only began to fully understand them in her teens, when she began to realise that it’s not like playing a sport, but learning important life lessons that can be applied in day-to-day reality. “It changed my life.”
She believes in appreciating karate as a whole, encompassing all its elements;
“Often some aspects of karate are ignored when the focus is on competition for example, but a Karateka is only a true karateka when they are knowledgeable of all the martial art’s aspects and only then do they understand Karate....then the fun begins!”
Heba has an impressive list of karate accolades to her name. She joined Karate Shinboku Kai as a second dan in karate. She has subsequently won multiple national championships in karate, aikido and judo, competed in the Karate World Championships 2011 and earned second place at the Karate European Championships in the same year.
She also received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional Achievement at Nottingham University, where she captained the student squad and training to be a judge at FEKO.
Heba has been teaching for more than 4 years and regularly instructs in England and Egypt and has had the privilege of training with some of the greatest martial artists in the world, including Kanzawa Sensei, chief instructor and president of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, and she also trained in Aikido with Kazua Chiba, who himself trained under the founder of Aikido and brought the discipline to Europe.
She is passionate about helping students tailor their learning to acquire karate techniques that best suit them as individuals. “I’m tiny, so I understand that what works for one person might not be the best approach for another, say of a smaller or larger stature!” Karate offers a huge variety of skills and techniques. Sensing the nuances in karate styles and learning how to mould it to your specific abilities is an important part of understanding the art.
Outside the dojo
Having studied Electronics and Communications engineering at King’s and then Nottingham, Heba now works as an Electronic engineering consultant.
Why King’s?
“KSK demands standards, you know if you make black belt you’ve earned it”.
Heba also appreciates the balance King’s offers between traditional karate and techniques with real life application.
“It’s one of the few clubs I’ve found in England that offers such a well-rounded karate programme.”