Club Grading Results

Sensei Adel Ismail was the examiner, and commented on our good standard.
Congratulations to all that passed their gradings – the results are as follows:

Phoebe Hennessy – 2nd Kyu
Connor Danylenko – 2nd Kyu
Gareth Evans – 2nd Kyu
Dave Evans – 2nd Kyu
Kat (Kate!!) Crosthwaite – 2nd Kyu
Sue Burke-Scott – 2nd Kyu
Steve Danylenko – 3rd Kyu
Euan Piper – 3rd Kyu
Sam Price – 4th Kyu
Emily Price – 6th Kyu
Isa Kulkarni – 6th Kyu
Joseph Skaria – 7th Kyu
Oscar Ryland – 7th Kyu
Majer Bickmore – 7th Kyu
Michaela Augustine – 8th Kyu (Double graded!)
Saif Rahman – 9th Kyu
Lemuel Melchizadeck – 9th Kyu
Alex Coulter – 9th Kyu
Jared Coulter – 9th Kyu
Ruby Coulter – 9th Kyu

Dan Grades Success

Congratulations to the following on their Dan gradings at Loughborough University in December:

Callum Lepley – Shodan (1st Dan)

Ernst Theron – Nidan (2nd Dan)

Ricardo Piper - Nidan (2nd Dan)

Well done also to Harry Theron who passed his Coaching Assessment.

November Club Course and Kyu Grading Results

We were pleased to welcome Sensei Roy Tomlin 5th Dan JKA for the first time to our club.

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Special Course & grading with Sensei Y. Ohta

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.

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Two new black belts!

Congratulations to Shauna and Yaniv who passed their black belt gradings at the weekend. They were awarded their grades by Sensei Tanaka and Sensei Ohta at the Spring International Course at Guildford. Well done!

Jason Lepley “Pass Shodan”

A big congratulations to Jason who passed his black belt grading at the December 2010 Hatfield Course. Well done to Matt Graves who passed his second dan.

Kyu Grading and Training with Sensei Ohta

It was the second year we have had chief instructor Ohta Sensei visit our club, the higher grades class was emphasised on basics, distance work and the kata Jion. The second class was very popular, students benefitted from basics and kata. The grading followed afterwards, congratulations to the following:

Peter Lacey – 1st Kyu
Sue Brown – 2nd Kyu
Janet Smith – 2nd Kyu
Pravesh Cahoolessur – 2nd Kyu
Callum Lepley – 2nd Kyu
Joe Battersby – 3rd Kyu
Rhys Barber – 3rd Kyu
Dave Evans – 4th Kyu
Linda Duan – 4th Kyu
Connor Danylenko – 4th Kyu
Paul Andrews – 5th Kyu
Steve Danylenko – 5th Kyu
John Wheal – 5th Kyu
Mary Bollan – 5th Kyu
Sophie Bickmore – 5th Kyu
Sunny Duan – 5th Kyu
Gareth Evans – 5th Kyu
Kat Crossthwaite – 6th Kyu
Nicola Hart – 6th Kyu
Phoebe Hennessey – 6th Kyu
Oliver Licence – 7th Kyu
Abbey Bloom – 8th Kyu
Nathan Allen – 8th Kyu
Paul Stockwell – 8th Kyu (double graded)
Carl Donnelly – 8th Kyu (double graded)
Ben Stockwell – 9th Kyu
Liam Donnelly – 9th Kyu
Toby Stockwell – 9th Kyu
Dimitry Proselkov – 9th Kyu