Special Course & grading with Sensei Y. Ohta
July 12, 2011
It was the third year chief instructor Sensei Yoshinobu Ohta (7th Dan JKA) visited us. Over eighty karate students attended the popular training session by JKA England’s Chief Instructor.
Over the years Sensei Ohta has build up a reputation as a very popular and technically brilliant senior instructor. He teaches at all JKAE national courses, abroad, as well as at his own clubs in Covent Garden and Chelsea. He has also recently appeared in the first episode of “Ninja Warrior” on Challenge TV.
Students that attended the brown and black belt class were trained in basics, distance work and the kata Enpi. The second class was very popular, students filled the whole hall.
The grading commenced afterwards, congratulations to the following:
Linda Duan – 2nd Kyu
Connor Danylenko – 3rd Kyu
Molly Fraser – 3rd Kyu
Dave Evans – 3rd Kyu
Steve Danylenko – 4th Kyu
Kat Crosthwaite – 4th Kyu
Mary Bollan – 4th Kyu
John Wheal – 4th Kyu
Gareth Evans – 4th Kyu
Sunny Duan – 4th Kyu
Phoebe Hennessey – 4th Kyu
Sophie Bickmore – 4th Kyu
Carl Donnelly – 6th Kyu
Eirys Proselkov – 7th Kyu
Joseph Skaria – 8th Kyu
Isa Kulkarni – 8th Kyu
Jamie Hutchinson – 9th Kyu
Letty Overbury-Tapper – 9th Kyu
Oscar Ryland – 9th Kyu
