End of Term/Christmas meal.

We got together, ate too much chinese, drank too little but had a damn good time. We marked the end of the term by awarding our members who we deemed to have improved the most, as well as thanking our long suffering sensei.

The award for most promising beginner went to Laura Mason, for showing up to almost every session without fail and having a positive attitude throughout.

The award for best higher grade went to another first year, Patrick Radbourne. Again this was for his presence at almost every training session and a constantly bright attitude towards karate and the club.

Heres some pics.

December Grading

On the penultimate week of term we held our first grading of the year, this was an opportunity for everyone to demonstrate how much they had accomplished over the course of the year so far and to be rewarded appropriately.

Almost everyone who attended managed to get to the next grade, with a few even showing enough prowess to skip a level.

We congratulate everyones achievement anyway and anticipate thier performace next term.

Pictures.

Belt crawl.

This is a bit of a delayed posting, but the belt crawl social went ahead towards the end of the last term and was pretty good fun.

The belt crawl has become a popular part of the karate clubs calendar and a tradition maintained for several generations of our karateka, for anyone unsure of the rules:

Participants must dress in a top the same colour as thier belt. Once gathered we proceed through various different pubs drinking as we go, however shots are taken at each pub in belt colour order. There are various other challenges, we complete sets of pressups or perform kata in the highstreet and people not wearing the correct colour suffer a forfeit.
Suffice to say not that many people make it to the final black shot (jaegermeister).

Here are pictures.