Grading Success - 25 March 2007
Club Instructor Georgina Grayston, Shauna, Amy, James, Ernst, Robin, Hefer, Marie with Sensei Ohta.
Sensei Ohta (JKAE Chief Instructor) was back in Essex on Sunday 25th March for a special training course & kyu grading. The course proved popular with well over 100 dedicated karate-ka in attendance for Sensei's lesson with many participating in the grading that followed.
Sensei Ohta's lessons proved a big hit with JKAE members, a higher grades lesson concentrated on kumite and the kata Jion.This was followed by a general class covering all basic techniques, kata and kumite.
The overall standard of all Essex clubs were extremely high, congratulations to the following Colchester members:
| Hefer Theron |
2nd kyu |
brown & white |
| Ernst Theron |
2nd kyu |
brown & white |
| Amy Walsh |
6th kyu |
green |
| Darren Gregory |
6th kyu |
green |
| Shauna Walsh |
7th kyu |
yellow |
| Sophie Fairbank |
7th kyu |
yellow |
| James Fairbank |
7th kyu |
yellow |
| Connor Deakin |
8th kyu |
red |
| Pravesh Cahoolessur |
8th kyu |
red |
| William Stone |
8th kyu |
red |
| Callum Webster |
8th kyu |
red |
| Marie Walsh |
8th kyu |
red (double graded) |
| James Gomm |
8th kyu |
red (double graded) |
| Robin Wroe-Brown |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Lewis Calver |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Devina Cahoolessur |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Niharika Pore |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Victoria Tracey |
9th kyu |
orange |
| William Tracey |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Kieran Hood |
9th kyu |
orange |
| Conor Renolds-Wright |
9th kyu |
orange |
Sensei Ohta offers useful advice on Heian Nidan to red belts
Georgina worries about the new orange belts!
Georgina, Marie, Robin, Darren, James, Sophie, Shauna and Amy