Sharon Pollett
Inducted into the A.M.A.H.O.F.(Inc)
for 2003
INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR NEW SOUTH WALES – KARATE
Inducted into the W.K.U.H.O.F. for 2003
INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR NEW SOUTH WALES – KARATE |
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Shihan Sharon Pollet hails from the New South Wales
country town of Orange, where she helps run Pollet’s
Martial Arts Academy with her husband Ian and son Ben.
Their daughter Rebecca is also also involved in Karate.
Shihan Pollet first started karate when she was eighteen
but dropped out after only one class but shortly
after Ian talked her into coming back to karate. Sharon
later
introduced classes for young children where she teaches
co-ordination and personal development skills on
top of the standard kicking and punching skills of
karate.
Shihan Pollet has found this type of training quickly
displays the abilities of good communication and
self-reliance skills in her students. This group is
affectionately
known as her “Little Tigers”.
NEW SOUTH WALES – KARATE
Apart from being an outstanding Instructor of Karate,
Shihan Pollet is an exceptional karate practitioner
in her own right. She has won numerous State and
National tournaments for sparring, kata and for “breaking” demonstrations
(six roof tiles with a single hammer-fist).
She has been a pioneer for women’s karate for
over 23 years and would like to see more females
involved in martial arts. She says, years ago, the
women used
to be much friendlier and more helpful. As a middleweight,
she can remember a particular meeting where she
had to go up to the heavyweight division, because there
weren’t any other middleweights competing,
and the lady she was matched against hit her with
a hook-punch,
which spun her helmet around. She immediately stopped
to fix Shihan Pollet’s helmet and asked if
she was still there. Afterwards they laughed about
it.
She says there was real camaraderie amongst the
girls. Today the girls are out for blood, and it’s
really quite vicious, whereas the men fight hard,
but they
shake hands afterwards, and it’s all in good
spirit. She thinks that women need to settle down
and relax their attitudes a bit. Because they are
female,
the women seem to feel they have to prove a point.
Shihan
Sharon Pollet is the fifth female to be inducted
into AMAHOF.
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