After much thought and deliberation we have decided to do a personal touch on the Black Belt grading write up.
It is difficult to put into words on a website, (and doesn't really do them justice), at what each of those students who graded have personally achieved in earning their black belts. Plus, at the likelihood of sounding cheesy and repetitive, most of it would have already been said before during a previous grading write up.
By giving a personal message to the students that graded, it's something that they can keep and look back on in years to come...after all it's a special grading, so it deserves a response of something a little bit different to anything that has come before!
Nevertheless they should all still be named for the benefit of everyone in the club, so that they can recognise and share in their accomplishments. The successful Black Belt students are:
Dylan Hickman Gavin Oliphant Julie Dudley Brandon Crowther
Laighton Worthington Alfie Appleby Alex Oliphant Rebecca Worthington
Martin Thomas Jack Churchouse Chelsea Grundy
All of the above students did fantastically well! They are a very special group of people and are a credit to their own dedication and commitment to karate. All those years of training really paid off for every single one of them at their grading.
Along with the personal messages will be grading feedback from Sensei George and Sensei Simon, so that each student will know their stronger and weaker points to work on for their next level. The messages and feedback will be given out to the respective students in their classes within the next couple of days.
We are sure that everyone here at Musuko Karate Academy will join us in a Huge Congratulations to the above students on their fantastic achievements in their karate journeys so far.