Grading syllabus information.

To aid in understanding japanese terms used, the grading process and the ethics behind karate I have posed some of the information kindly provided by Sensei Steve Wilkinson. This is part of a document he has produced showing all the grading syllabus but due to the size of the document I have only publuished certain parts as we already have the detail of the gradings listed at the bottom of this blog.

I can email the full document on request via our email address. Link on right hand side of this blog.

http://newtonaycliffesnshinryugrading.blogspot.com/

Iain Abernethy Seminar at Thornaby.

Sensei Iain Abernethy will be holding one of his excellent seminars at Thornaby again on October 3rd 2009. The seminars are fantastic value at £20 per person . For those that are not familiar with him there is a link on the right of the blog to his web site. Full details of the seminar times and location are available by following this link :-

http://www.iainabernethy.com/news_page.asp#Seminars

If anyone wants to attend then please speak with Dave Blackburn and get your name down on the form on the notice board in the dojo.

Congratulations to Oliver on his grading.

Oliver just missed out on passing his green belt a month ago and was told to re-focus and try again in a month. I am pleased to say that he took on board the comments of his instructors and gave a first class performance to pass his 6th Kyu, Green belt. Well Done Oliver.

Grading July 2009

Congratulations to Linda Croarkin who passed her Shodan, 1st Dan Black Belt. This is just the start of your training Linda. Now the hard work begins.

Also congrats are in order for Andrew Smith who passed his 2nd Kyu Brown Belt and Louis Cameron who passed his 6th Kyu Green Belt.

Dave and Andy sparring in slow motion.

Eddie was trying out his new video camera phone and was messing around with the slow motion. He took some footage of Dave and I sparring which I thought looked quite good and was worth posting for a bit of entertainment value. Enjoy!

Easter Competition 2009 - Team Kata

Easter Competition 2009- Team Kumite